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Dr Tijana Blanusa is a Principal Horticultural Scientist at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), where she leads the Ecosystem Services Research Programme. Her work explores how plant traits can support healthier urban environments through cooling, rainfall mitigation, air-quality improvement and biodiversity enhancement. Based at the University of Reading, she also teaches and supervises students across undergraduate, MSc and PhD levels. Her current research includes hedges, green walls and sustainable planting choices for greener, more resilient spaces.

Dr Bethan Mead is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Liverpool, working with the Appetite and Obesity Research Group. Her research combines psychological and food-systems perspectives to understand eating behaviour, sustainable diets, food security, and the links between environment, health and wellbeing. Her current work focuses on sustainable and healthy diets, with particular interest in how urban food growing and access to nature can influence diet, health and wellbeing. This work builds on her previous UKRI-FSA Fellowship under the Transforming UK Food Systems Strategic Priorities Fund and her postdoctoral research with the Rurban Revolution project, where she examined the health and dietary impacts of urban agriculture.