This research is guided by an Expert Advisory Group of leading researchers across the fields of coastal governance, climate change adaptation and disaster risk management, including: 

• Professor Tim Smith Lincoln University, New Zealand: is an expert in coastal governance and climate change adaptation
• Professor Mark Pelling King's College, United Kingdom: is an expert in the institutions and social relationships that shape vulnerability and adaptation to natural disasters, including those associated with climate change.
• Emerita Professor Kate Brown University of Exeter, United Kingdom: is an interdisciplinary social scientnts specialising in environmental change, vulnerability and resilience.
• Professor Bruce Glavovic Massey University, New Zealand: Bruce's research centres on the role of governance in building resilient and sustainability communities, focusing on coastal communities.
• Professor Ryan Plummer Brock University, Canada: leads a multi-faceted program of research broadly concerning the governance of social-ecological systems.

Other team members

• Dr Marcus Bussey University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia: is a futurist and historian whose research focus explores cultural change via the phenomenology of body wisdom, anticipatory aesthetics and educational futures.
• Samantha Willcocks (PhD candidate) is a creative imagineer and community change-maker exploring inner and outer dimensions of adaptive capacity, and eco-embodied cognition for resilience, through a participatory, trans-disciplinary approach in Africa and Australia.