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: 

• Emerita Professor Kate Brown University of Exeter, United Kingdom: is an interdisciplinary social scientist 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 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.
• Professor Ryan Plummer Brock University, Canada: leads a multi-faceted program of research broadly concerning the governance of social-ecological systems.
• Professor Tim Smith University of Waikato, New Zealand: is an expert in coastal governance and climate change adaptation

Project Team Members

• Mr Pradeep Baral, a doctoral candidate from Nepal, investigates the intricate relationships between REDD+, climate resilience, and community forestry in Nepal's biodiverse Terai region using participatory research methods.
• 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.
• Ms Marney Teasdale provides research support and is a final year doctoral candidate undertaking auto ethnographic research on disaster recovery and resilience. Marney brings to the project significant experience and expertise in community engagement, community development, and Native Title, having completed her Honours in Indigenous Australian studies.  
• Ms Samantha Willcocks, a masters by research 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.