Mary undertakes empirical qualitative fieldwork to explore the corresponding relationships between practices of community resilience and water resources policy, planning and management in the context of sustainable futures. Her current work focuses on sustainable futures transitions in respect to changing water environments, social-ecological systems resilience and socio-political dimensions of integrated water resource management.

Gabriella is a medical entomologist with a particular interest in mosquitoes. Her work has focussed on understanding their sensory physiology and behaviour, as well as their interactions with humans and other animals, including livestock.

Anil is currently a Senior Lecturer at Cranfield University and researches biophysical, social, economic, and ecological aspects of land use systems nationally, in Europe and globally. He has worked on a range of research funded by national, EU, and global sponsors. His experience includes evaluating the impact of low external input technologies in tropical agricultural systems, farmer preferences for non-production farm assets and stakeholder analysis in relation to UK farmland bird populations and chalk grasslands, the role of monetary and non-monetary approaches to valuation of ecosystem services, and integrated biophysical and economic modelling of ecosystem services to evaluate the market and non-market costs associated with decision making on lowland peatlands, soil degradation in England and Wales, and management options within arable, livestock, agroforestry and forestry systems in the UK and Europe.