Who are we?
Meet our members
We are a community of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners dedicated to advancing knowledge about life on a hotter planet. In particular, through cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research, we focus on the non-boundedness of extreme heat.

Member
Atoofa Soma
Atoofa is a PhD student in Social Anthropology whose research examines how residents of low-income informal settlements experience and adapt to extreme heat through embodied knowledge and local strategies. Drawing on urban political ecology, her work highlights the uneven social and spatial impacts of heat stress.
Urban Studies

Member
Isabel Cornes
Isabel is a PhD graduate from the University of Melbourne whose research examined emergency service volunteers and community relationships in disaster preparedness. She is currently Senior Project Officer at the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience.
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Disaster Risk Management
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