Patrick is a PhD candidate researching Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) for climate adaptation. His work involves collaborating with adaptation planners to support updating and improving DMDU tools to create actionable strategies for real-world resilience.

Alastair Zangs is a climate adaptation practitioner working with coastal communities facing erosion risk. His research explores the poor incorporation of transboundary climate risk in adaptation planning and policy, and through system thinking develops ways to improve the incorporation of transboundary climate risk into adaptation planning.

Amanda Leinberger is the Adaptation Program Manager at the Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions at the University of Arizona. She is also a PhD Candidate in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. Amanda's research focuses on climate adaptation, climate services, and networks.

Sadie McEvoy is a senior researcher on adaption planning and decision making under deep uncertainty for water resources, coasts, and urban areas. She is particularly interested in how adaptation is planned, the effectiveness of adaptation, and in methods and tools to support decision making for effective adaptation.

Rumen Rachev is a performance scholar, researcher, and conceptual artist, currently a PhD candidate at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and a member and HDR representative at the Centre for People, Place, and Planet (CPPP), Edith Cowan University (ECU). Bronte is a critical realist eco-feminist activist-scholar completing her PhD in Climate Justice. Bronte’s praxis transcends disciplinary and sectoral boundaries to support climate justice in Western Australia and beyond. She is an alumna of The University of Melbourne’s Wattle Fellowship, a multidisciplinary program for emerging leaders in sustainability. Abdul-Razak is an academic and sustainability researcher with experience as a Human Resource Management consultant and adjunct lecturer from Ghana. Currently, he is a PhD candidate and sessional academic at the School of Business and Law, as well as an HDR member of ECU’s Centre for People, Place and Planet. Shonah Trescott is a visual artist, ecofeminist and researcher focusing on decolonial methodologies, and Indigenous knowledge systems within contemporary visual art practices. She is a PhD candidate at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), and HDR member of the Centre for People Place and Planet (CPPP), Edith Cowan University. Justine is Deputy Director of the Centre for People, Place and Planet. Her field is cultural psychology, exploring the psychology of cultural identity, migration, settlement and intergroup relations. Recently she has applied her expertise to understanding community awareness, preparedness for and responses to environmental hazards such as bushfires.