Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and Fellow of the British Academy. She was co-director of the DEMAND Centre (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand) from 2013-2019. Elizabeth has written, co-authored or edited numerous books and papers, including Connecting Practices: Large Topics in Society and Social Theory, the Nexus of Practices (Taylor and Francis, 2022), and The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How It Changes (SAGE, 2012).

Stanley Blue is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. He is the author of the book Practice Theory and Process Philosophy: Towards a Sociology of Becoming (Routledge, 2026), co-director for the Centre for Practice Theory at Lancaster and editor of The Journal of Practice Theory.

Mike P. Kelly is Senior Visiting Fellow and Professor in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Between 2005 and 2014 he was the Director of the Centre for Public Health at NICE and from 2005 to 2007 he directed the methodology work stream for the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.