Dr. Amber Fletcher is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Regina. Her research examines how gender and social inequality shape the lived experience of climate change through the lens of climate disasters (flooding, drought, and wildfire). Focusing on rural and Indigenous communities in the Canadian Prairie region, her work reveals the lived impact of inequality in the context of crisis.

Amber is currently Principal Investigator on a SSHRC-funded project entitled, “Community-Campus Responses to Crisis: Opportunities for Community Engagement and Networked Learning for Climate Change Resilience” (2023-24). She also serves as Co-Director on a SSHRC-funded, intercontinental project called “Bridging the Water Adaptation Gap: A Comparative Inter- and Transdisciplinary Perspective of Regional Risks and Vulnerabilities in Drylands in Canada and Latin America” (2022-27). Dr. Fletcher’s other projects include a five-year study on the social dimensions of climate hazards in agricultural and Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan and several SSHRC- and CIHR-funded projects on environmental impact assessment and public safety.

Dr. Stephen Mumford is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham.

He is the author of Dispositions (Oxford, 1998), Russell on Metaphysics (Routledge, 2003), Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004), David Armstrong (Acumen, 2007), Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion (Routledge, 2011), Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford, 2011 with Rani Lill Anjum), Metaphysics: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2012) and Causation: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2013 with Rani Lill Anjum). Dr. Mumford was editor of George Molnar's posthumous Powers: a Study in Metaphysics (Oxford, 2003) and Metaphysics and Science (Oxford, 2013 with Matthew Tugby). His PhD was from the University of Leeds in 1994 and he worked at Nottingham between 1995 and 2016, serving as Head of the Department of Philosophy, Head of the School of Humanities and Dean of the Faculty of Arts.

Dr. Andrew Brown is Professor of Economics and Political Economy at the University of Leeds.

His research advances explanations of key developments in economy and society. Dr. Brown has published on theories of value and growth, financialisation, the euro, job quality and job satisfaction, wellbeing, infrastructure economics, and ICT. He stresses the research importance of methodology and philosophy and have published on activity theory, critical realism, dialectics, mixed methods, and approaches to interdisciplinarity.

Dr. Brown’s paper on critical realism and systematic dialectics was winner of the 2015 Sage prize for Innovation and/or Excellence. He leads large-scale interdisciplinary research projects across economists, engineers, mathematicians, environmental scientists and social scientists. The total external grant income for projects in which he is Co-I or PI is circa 15M (funders include EC, ESRC, EPSRC, NERC, HSE, BIS, and the ISRF).

Dr. Brown co-organised the 2012 British Sociological Association (BSA) presidential event on the global financial crisis, and presented at a special plenary of the 2015 BSA conference. I work closely with policy makers and stakeholders, e.g. I have advised HM Treasury on infrastructure economics.