Dr Hazel Dawe is a law lecturer, choir singer and coordinator, linguist and longstanding Green Party campaigner and candidate. Her recent efforts include working with Cyclox, the Oxford Cycling campaign, and the Friends of Lye Valley which protects two sites of scientific interest and two nature reserves in Headington, Oxford. She plays a role as in protest liaison for Rebellion Extinction, Oxford.

Steve Dawe is a retired interdisciplinary social sciences lecturer who writes for West England Bylines on transport-climate-environment. He, and wife Hazel, have written many submissions to public consultations over decades. Some of their output can be seen at Cowley Area Transport Group: www.catg.org.uk. He has been a member of what is now the Green Party since 1983.