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Kreseda Smith researches agricultural crime, farmer mental health, behavioural science, and modern slavery/human trafficking within agriculture, supervising PhDs in modern slavery/farmer decision-making. Recent publications include the psychological impact of agricultural crime, and how agricultural crime compares to other recognised farmer stressors. She co-Chairs the Rural Criminology Working Group for the European Society of Criminology, is an ISSRC Executive member, a Research Associate of the Centre for Rural Criminology at University of New England, a member of the Midlands Anti-slavery Research Collaboration, Lecturer in Land and Information Skills, and Senior Researcher in Harper Adams University’s Rural Security Research Group in the UK.  

Professor Richard Yarwood is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Plymouth. His research focuses on social geography and, within this sub-discipline, has examined rural change, policing, military geographies and the voluntary sector. These diverse interests were drawn together in his most recent book Citizenship. 

Wyn Morris is a senior lecturer at Aberystwyth Business School. He graduated from Aberystwyth University in 2001 with a BSc in Rural Resource Management, specialising in business and economics. His career took him to the Farm Assurance Livestock Scheme where he worked as Certification and Assessment Coordinator while studying for an MSc Econ in Entrepreneurship through the medium of Welsh. Wyn joined Aberystwyth University staff as an Investigational Officer with the Farm Business Survey in 2003, before taking up a post at the School of Business and Management in 2010 and successfully defending his PhD titled: Technology adoption, entrepreneurship and efficiency in agricultural businesses: The Case of Upland Sheep Farmers in Wales. His main areas of research and teaching are in management, strategy and operations with a focus on rural entrepreneurship. 

Dr Gareth Norris is a senior lecturer based in the Department of Psychology at Aberystwyth University where he has been employed since 2006. His main areas of research and teaching focus on forensic and criminological psychology, particularly judgement and decision making in legal contexts. Alongside his work with rural crime, he has conducted evaluations for the Home Office on Serious and Organised Crime and with Youth Justice in developing risk assessment tools.