Geoffrey Beattie is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University and in recent years a Masters supervisor on the Sustainability Leadership Programme at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Laura McGuire is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University. She was a Research Assistant at the University of Manchester from 2007 to 2011 and then worked as a Research Assistant at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester from 2011 to 2012. Her research focus is on possible psychological barriers which prevent people living a more sustainable lifestyle in the context of the threat posed by climate change and tackling this very major issue from an interdisciplinary perspective.