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Dr Carmen Elrick-Barr
Senior Research Fellow | School of Law and Society
celrick@usc.edu.au
Carmen is overall project lead.
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.