Staff
Directors
- Professor Lisa Gibbs
Director
- Professor Eva Alisic
Associate Director
- Professor Kathryn Bowen
Professor and Deputy Director Melbourne Climate Futures
Staff
- Nathaniel Barker
Research Fellow
- Oliver Eastwood
Research Fellow
- Dr Colin Gallagher
Research Fellow
- April Harrison
Research Assistant
- Jonathan Janua
Research Assistant
- Kathryn Joy
Research Assistant
- Kristine Jover
Administration and Project Officer
- Dr Claire Leppold
Research Fellow
- Dr Katitza Marinkovic
Research Fellow
- Sarah Medcalf
Research Fellow
- Robyn Molyneaux
Research Fellow
- Elise Moo
Research Fellow
- Hannah Morrice
Research Fellow
- Sam Netherclift
Research Assistant
- Sunny Nguyen
Research Assistant
- Dr Rebecca Patrick
Senior Research Fellow
- Alana Pirrone
Design and Communications Coordinator
Design and Data Visualisation Consultant
- Phoebe Quinn
Research Fellow
- Ashwini Sakthiakumaran
Research Assistant
- Urvi Thanekar
Research Assistant
- Belle Workman
Research Fellow
Visiting Fellows
- Professor Junko Otani
- Dr Smritima Diksha Lama
PhD Students
Meg Chin
When a child dies from a life-threatening condition: Hearing the voices of bereaved siblings (2017-2025)
Supervisors: Prof Louise Harms, Prof Lisa Gibbs
Jonathan Januar
Missing data mechanisms in covert networks (2021-2025). Supervisors: Dr Johan Koskinen, Dr Colin Gallagher, Prof Yoshi Kashima.
Adelle Mansour
Creating climate-resilient and healthy housing: what is the role of citizen science? (2023-2026)
Supervisors: Prof Rebecca Bentley, Prof Kathryn Bowen, Dr Samantha Rowbotham.
Anna Kennedy-Borissow
Creativity, recovery, and resilience: How the arts contribute to psychosocial recovery and resilience in disaster-affected communities (2022-2025).
Supervisors: Dr Caitlin Vincent, Dr Guy Morrow, Dr Claire Leppold and Dr Kate Brady.
Dominica Meade
Gender, volunteering and disasters (2023-2026).
Supervisors: Dr Brendan Churchill, Professor Jo Barraket, Dr Claire Leppold.
Nabreesa Murphy
Young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Pacific in times of climate change-related disasters (2021-2024) Supervisors: A/Prof Meghan Bohren, A/Prof Peter Azzopardi, Prof Kathryn Bowen.
Shanti Narayanasamy
Identifying critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of structural barriers to health in Victoria through community perspectives during the COVID-19 pandemic to change future practice (2023-2026).
Supervisors: Professor Margaret Hellard, Professor Lisa Gibbs, Assoc Prof Alisa Pedrana, Assoc Prof Katherine Gibney
Phoebe Quinn
Crowdsourcing consensus for climate and disaster resilience: An exploration of the use of civic technology for agenda-setting at scale (2022-2025).
Supervisors: Prof Lisa Gibbs, Prof Kathryn Bowen, Prof Nicole Curato.
Sophie Robinson
Governance to enable Climate Resilient Development of Healthcare systems (2021-2024).
Supervisors: Kathryn Bowen; Michele Barnes; Glenn Hoetker.
Alex Tanfield
The impact on and changing nature of social capital in response to multiple disasters (2023-2026)
Supervisors: Professor Jacki Schirmer, Professor Lisa Gibbs Enrolled through University of Canberra.
Supported by Department of Education Research Training Program stipend and a scholarship from Natural Hazards Research Australia.
Dana Young
Sports participation and social capital development for migrant women and adolescent girls (2018-2025).
Supervisors: A/Prof Karen Block, Prof Lisa Gibbs. National Health and Medical Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship.
Honorary Staff
| Dr Rebecca Armstrong | National Disability Insurance Agency |
| Dr Kate Brady | UNSW |
| Andrew Coghlan | Australian Red Cross |
| Dr Ashrafalsadat Hosseini | Foundation House |
| Professor Colin MacDougall | Flinders University |
| Jane Nursey | Phoenix Australia |
| John Richardson | Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience |
| Elena Swift | Griffith University |
| David Younger | Clinical & Consultant Psychologist |