About the Speaker

A/Professor Petra Buergelt is an award-wining transdisciplinary scientist with a highly diverse background at the University of Canberra. Her purpose is to contribute to transformations that unite and transcend Western and Indigenous paradigms in ways that heal and create us being able again to live in harmony with our self, others and nature. To this end, Petra has been researching in disaster risk reduction since 2005 and two-way with Indigenous peoples living in very remote communities in East Arnhem Land (NT) and Taiwan since 2015 and 2017 respectively. She is a Sylff Fellow (Ryoichi Sasakwa Young Leaders Fellowship, Tokyo & Nippon Foundation), a research fellow at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research (Massey University, NZ), and a member of the Leadership Committee of the International Transformative Learning Association (ITLA). She is an Executive Committee Member of UC’s Collaborative Indigenous Research Initiative (CIRI), a member of the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project (AIPEP) reference group, and an affiliate research fellow at the UC Health Research Institute and the HEAL Global Research Centre Joint. Petra also leads the decolonising and Indigenising of the UC psychology curriculum. She publishes in Q1 journals and presented nationally and internationally including key notes (h-Index Scopus 14). Petra has been awarded over $ 10 million in shared funding including AIATSIS and NHMRC MRFF funding. She is also a reviewer for the NHMRC.