Dr Petra Buergelt

Dr Petra Buergelt is an A/Prof at UC, an award winning interdisciplinary social scientist and Sylff Fellow.

Petra serves on the Executive Committees of the Collaborative Indigenous Research Initiative ('UC CIRI)' and International Transformative Learning Association. Using qualitative and Indigenist research, she is working at the nexus of disaster risk reduction and recovery, Indigenous/ancient worldviews-knowledges-practices and transformation to contribute to creating a paradigm shift from Western to ancient/Indigenous paradigms.

Petra has been co-leading research with Indigenous communities in Australia and Taiwan since 2014. She is also a CI on a NHMRC MRFF bushfire project.