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Jose Castro, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Emma Brewis, University of Leeds

Dipa Kamdar, Kingston University

Ilan Kelman, UCL and Matthew Blackett, Coventry University

Vikram Niranjan, University of Limerick and Colum P. Dunne, University of Limerick

Doug Specht, University of Westminster and Rob Sharp

Santosh Vijaykumar, Northumbria University, Newcastle and Michael Craig, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Giulio Lucarini, National Research Council (CNR); Cyprian Broodbank, University of Cambridge, and Toby C. Wilkinson, University of Cambridge

Sara Carta, Trinity College Dublin and Giovanni Di Liberto, Trinity College Dublin

Mark Shanahan, University of Surrey

Gunter Kuhnle, University of Reading

Adam Taylor, Lancaster University

Joanna Syrda, University of Bath

Uisce Jordan, University of Glasgow

Ian Collen, Queen's University Belfast

Louise Ashley, Queen Mary University of London and Eve Worth, University of Exeter

Athina Vlachantoni, University of Southampton; Carrie Paechter, Nottingham Trent University; Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton; Maria Evandrou, University of Southampton; Michael Skey, Loughborough University; Rob McNeil, University of Oxford, and Rory Fitzgerald, City St George's, University of London

Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield; Andrew Russell, University of Portsmouth; Chris Rojek, City St George's, University of London; David Voas, UCL; Lincoln Geraghty, University of Portsmouth, and Steven Buckley, City St George's, University of London

José Iriarte, University of Exeter

Graham Farrell, University of Leeds; Hayley J. Fowler, Newcastle University; Helena Gillespie, University of East Anglia; Helen Roy, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; University of Exeter; Jim Watson, UCL; Stephen Potter, The Open University, and Toby Davies, University of Leeds

Alexandra Makin, Manchester Metropolitan University

Lauren Warner-Treloar, Kingston University

Shireen Kassam, University of Winchester and Dagfinn Aune, Imperial College London

Graeme Close, Liverpool John Moores University and Richard Kirwan, Liverpool John Moores University

Sam Edwards, Loughborough University

Sarah Salih, King's College London

Ginette Vincendeau, King's College London

Helen Vassallo, University of Exeter

Hannah Little, University of Liverpool

Aysha Asif Riaz, UCL

Katie Jenkins, University of East Anglia and Robert James Nicholls, University of East Anglia

Alexandra Cremona, University of Limerick