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Received: 16 December 2019

Accepted: 11 August 2020

First Online: 24 August 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approval was granted by the Flinders University Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee for research conducted in Australia, approval number 7924. The University of Leeds ESSL, Environment and LUBS (AREA) Faculty Research Ethics Committee granted approval for research conducted in the EU (including the UK), approval number AREA 17–070, in accordance with the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity [CitationRef removed]. The University of South Carolina Institutional Review Board granted approval for research conducted in the US and Canada, approval number Pro00074549, in accordance with the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (US) and the Tri-Council Policy Statement on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (Canada). Recruitment materials included a contact email for the relevant researcher in each country/locale. People interested in participating were invited to make contact via email. Upon contact, potential participants were provided with a full information sheet about the project, detailing the focus of the project, what was requested of them in terms of time, and contacts should they need support following participation. Having read this information sheet, participants signed a consent form to participate in an interview. Participants returned the signed consent form and provided demographic information before undertaking an interview.

: Consent for publication was obtained from each participant via a signed consent form. An information sheet also provided to participants noted that whilst every effort would be made to protect their confidentiality with regard to the general public, certain aspects of the experiences they shared may make them identifiable to family members or close friends.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.