Sam Illingworth is an Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, where his work and research focus on using poetry and games as a way of developing dialogues between scientists and other publics. He is also an award-winning science communicator, poet, games designer, Principal Fellow of Advance HE (PFHEA), Chief Executive Editor of Geoscience Communication and the founder of Consilience, the world's first peer-reviewed science and poetry journal. Find out more about Sam and his work via his website www.samillingworth.com.

Grant Allen is a Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Manchester. His research interests include pollution, greenhouse gas measurement methods and remote sensing. Grant received a Natural Environment Research Council Fellowship and became a lecturer in 2011, a senior lecturer in 2013, reader in 2016, and Professor in 2019. Grant has received over £10M in funding, with over 100 publications in high-impact journals. In 2012, he was awarded a Royal Society Westminster Pairing Fellowship to shadow a Member of Parliament to understand the science-policy interface.