Paula (Urban Intelligence/Waikato University) specialises in mechanisms and processes to establish dialogue (e.g., engagement, collaboration, co-production of knowledge, co-innovation, co-learning, and serious games) between scientists, managers and the community to understand challenges and to achieve negotiated outcomes and solutions in climate risk and adaptation

Peter Edwards is a Senior Researcher in political sociologist at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, with a strong interest and experience in forest and environmental policy and governance. In working with complex (wicked) problems across the environmental sphere and adaptive governance, Peter was introduced to serious games.

Sandra Lavorel is a functional ecologist focusing on the interlinkages between human-driven changes in land and climate, ecosystems and their contributions to humans. She combines multiple participatory methodologies for generating future visions and adaptation pathways, including serious games that allow stakeholders to develop spatially-explicit scenarios of adaptation or enact key barriers and levers to adaptation.

Dan Richards is a landscape ecologist interested in climate change adaptation at local to global scales. His current work includes scoping the potential for generative artificial intelligence to support adaptation planning, using serious games as an approach to test the technology.

Pike is Principal Economist and econometrician focusing on survey design, enumeration, and inferential analysis. His expertise includes economic behaviour; complex decision making; and climate adaptation and mitigation. Pike has designed a game for farmers to test different adaptation strategies. In his free time, Pike enjoys playing strategic board games

Dr Benjamin Bowman is a specialist in young people’s political sociology, and especially the sociology of climate change. Dr Bowman uses youth-centred and creative methods to explore how young people make sense of, and take action on, climate change.

Dr. Blane Harvey is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, where he leads the Leadership and Learning for Sustainability Lab. His work spans  across the social and natural sciences on the themes of learning, collaboration, environmental change  and education for sustainable development.