Dr Woodward specialises in identifying Hemiptera, Araneae, Freshwater Macroinvertebrates, Hymenoptera and Diptera. She is a member of the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Scheme, the Dipterist's Forum, the British Plant Gall Society, the Butterfly Conservation Society and the Auchenorrhyncha Recording Scheme. She also a part-time lecturer for Durham University, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Open University on Ecology.

Jim Staley has research interests in upland and moorland ecology (PhD thesis: the ecology of the heather beetle), ecological modelling (at present working part-time on a MAFF/ADAS project modelling the impact of the Pilot Arable Stewardship Scheme on bird, plant and invertebrate assemblages), relational database management and Geographical Information Systems. He also has experience of terrestrial survey techniques including invertebrates, crayfish, mammals and plants and considerable experience in various aspects of environmental entomological consultancy. He is a member of the Environment Industries Federation.