Political Ecology & Rupture – Exploring how climate-related disasters disrupt social-ecological systems in rural Australia, with a focus on the concept of rupture as a lens for understanding structural precarity.

Disaster Governance & Resilience – Investigating the roles of state and non-state actors (including Disaster NGOs, councils, and local collectives) in shaping disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

Coloniality & Decolonial Approaches – Examining how settler-colonial histories and dispossession continue to shape disaster outcomes and state-society relations, while foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and place-based knowledge.

Community Agency & Collective Care – Understanding how rural communities self-organise, resist, or adapt during and after disaster events, including expressions of political action, solidarity, and everyday resilience.

Ethnography & Trauma-Informed Methods – Employing long-term, relational, and decolonial fieldwork approaches, with a particular emphasis on yarning, narrative inquiry, and sensitivity to trauma and mental health in disaster-affected communities.