Kylie is a wadjela (non-Indigenous) woman who lives and works on Binjareb Noongar Boodja In the south west of Western Australia. She is an early-career researcher and Sustainability Lecturer who uses critical, decolonial and feminist approaches to Participatory Action Research to advance positive eco-social change and justice in the context of a changing climate and intersecting oppressive systems. She mostly works with community groups, activists, social service organisations and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations. For her PhD, she coined “movement-based PAR” for work with diverse climate justice activists and advocates and was interested in centring care-full and relational ethics and practices in climate-justice research and action.

Cecilia is a late stage PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University researching girls participation and activism for water justice in Zimbabwe. Her study adopts a local, girl centered PAR, that is responsive to the complexities and cultural identities of Black African girlhoods. Cecilia uses FPAR in her work with feminist organisations to build feminist movements, research and evaluate programs.

Bronte is a wadjela PhD candidate based on Wardandi Noongar Boodja in south-west Western Australia. Her PhD study, Just in Time: Imagining and Enabling the Climate-Just Transformation of Community Service Organisations in Western Australia, adopts eco-feminist participatory action research (Eco-FPAR) and poetic autoethnography to trace social change in real time at different levels of scale. Her recent poetry collection, Breath Back, explores her (meta)reflexive practice over the first 18 months of her PhD, including navigating the complexities of Eco-FPAR in practice.

Naomi is an Associate Professor of climate justice and Associate Director of Edith Cowan University’s Centre for People, Place and Planet. She leads a team of climate justice researchers who use ecofeminist, decolonial and critical Participatory Action Research with communities, social movements and grassroots organisations. Naomi has used FPAR for 20 years, including in her own PhD, and she has supervised six PhD students using PAR informed by intersectional feminism, decoloniality and other critical theories.

Trimita is one of the co-founders of FPAR Academy. She's a PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University researching Indigenous women’s organising against the coloniality of energy in the Philippines and Bangladesh using Ecofeminist Participatory Action Research (EcoFPAR).

Verena is Professor of Communication and Associate Dean (Research) in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University. Verena’s work focuses on creative research approaches and communication for social change. She has led numerous award-winning research and production projects with donors, government and NGO partners in the areas of health communication, gender equality and education. Verena has mentored cohorts of researchers and practitioners in cross-cultural contexts in meaningfully applying participatory filmmaking, digital storytelling, and more broadly creative and co-design research methods. Verena facilitates these participatory research processes in collaboration with community groups and works with institutions and organisations that want to strategically integrate creative approaches into social change programs.