Pratik is a labour geographer - anthropologist specialising in the political economy of heat, with a focus on how debt bondage, migration, and social reproduction shape occupational heat stress among informal brick kiln workers in India.

Hebe examines the societal impacts of current extreme heat in Pakistan, and the potential consequences of future unprecedented heat events.

Zakia is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University whose research examines how individuals and communities - particularly in informal urban contexts - adapt to rising heat stress in Bangladesh and South Africa.

Syed Ali Mehdi is a PhD candidate at Stanford University, studying the social life of extreme heat in rural Pakistan.

Swati is a Senior Research Associate at IIHS whose work focuses on the intersection of climate change with migration and health in urban informal settlements, examining the impacts of climate change and associated adaptation strategies.

Camellia is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, studying how heat is embodied, acclimatised, and narrated as an everyday climate disaster within the more-than-human contexts in Cambodia.

Atoofa Samo is a PhD student in Social Anthropology researching everyday experiences and adaptations to extreme heat in low-income informal settlements. Her work draws on urban political ecology to trace heat’s uneven impacts across bodies, spaces, and infrastructures.

Bharath Nataraj is a PhD Scholar at IIHS researching how women's resilience informs heat adaptation policy in Kalaburagi. Drawing on his own experience growing up in a Bengaluru informal settlement, his work centres the lived experiences of informal and gig workers’ climate precarity.