
Dr Carmen Elrick-Barr
Senior Research Fellow | School of Law and Society
celrick@usc.edu.au
Carmen applies expertise in climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning to lead work on existing coastal governance arrangements and coastal vulnerability.

Associate Professor Dana Thomsen
Professor Thomsen is an expert in sustainability communication and advocacy and leading work on coastal governance innovations.
- Professor Ryan Plummer - Director of the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC) Brock University, where his program of research concerns the governance of social-ecological systems.
- Assistant Professor Jessica Blythe - human geographer with research expertise in ocean governance, sustainable transformations and climate change adaptation.
- Professor Iain White - environmental planner whose interdisciplinary research explores institutional change with regard to new forms of spatial development and climate change adaptation.
- Associate Professor Daniel Henstra - political scientist who studies the governance of complex policy areas such as climate change adaptation, emergency management and flood risk management.
PhD Students
- Dr Miguel Frohlich - an environmental planner and lawyer whose research explores how legal frameworks for coastal management can influence the adoption of adaptive management.
- Dr Jonathan Raikes - applies his experience working on international disaster risk reduction strategies to investigate the intersection of governance for disaster risk reduction and sustainable development goals in Australia and Canada.
- Pippa Huddleston - an environmental planner who will draw on her practical experience in infrastructure planning to compare governance tools in coastal infrastructure retreat in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
- Angela Mallette - applies her experience working in municipal climate change adaptation planning to explore opportunities for learning through Canadian and Australian case studies.