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Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol. She works on the relationship between education, knowledge practices, and long-term environmental, social and technological change. She is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Futures, was Zennström Professor of Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University (2018–2020), AHRC Leadership Fellow for the Connected Communities Programme (2012–2018), and research director of Futurelab (2001–2008). She publishes in areas ranging from technological change to learning cities, university futures, and climate change. She is co-editor of the book series Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures.

Johan Siebers is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion in the Department of Criminology and Sociology at Middlesex University London and Director of the Ernst Bloch Centre for German Thought at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He is the co-editor of Models of Communication (Routledge, 2019) and the founding and principal editor of Empedocles: European Journal for Philosophy of Communication. He is co-editor of the book series Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures.

Bradon Smith is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Bristol with research interests in the Environmental and Energy Humanities – particularly the representation of climate change and energy futures in contemporary literature and culture – and temporality in research. He was a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project Stories of Change: Exploring energy and community in the past, present and future (2014–2017), and co-editor of a special double issue of the journal Resilience entitled ‘Stories of Energy’ (2019).