Prof. Petra Tschakert

Prof. Tschakert is trained as a human-environment geographer and applied anthropologist and conducts research at the intersection of political ecology, climate change adaptation, climate and mobility justice, multispecies justice, energy humanities, transformative sustainability education, and livelihood security. She is a passionate educator with a strong commitment to overcoming structural inequities and co-creating just and transformative futures, through inclusive and solution-focused research and practice to address the most pressing challenges of our time – climate/environmental change and inequalities. She combines critical social science insights with grounded methodologies for collective learning and social transformation. Her motivation is to enhance resilience and agency among populations experiencing disadvantage, learn how to live with loss, grief, and hope in our rapidly changing lives, and practice responsible co-existence between people and non-humans in a world in which all of us are vulnerable. She has abundant experience using participatory methods and community engagement practices for capacity and resilience strengthening for >30 years in Senegal, Ghana, Tanzania, India, Nepal, and Panama, and recently in Western Australia.