Dr Christine Eriksen is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong. Her work focuses on social dimensions of disasters. She examines the trade-offs people make between risks and benefits, and contextualises these trade-offs at scales ranging from individual households and community networks to official management agencies. A major part of this work focuses on the culturally and historically distinct relations that underpin bushfire resilience. Christine is the author of 'Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty' (published in 2014). She was selected by the International Social Science Council as a World Social Science Risk Interpretation and Action Fellow in 2013, and was awarded a prestigious Discovery Early Career Research Award by the Australian Research Council in 2015.