Ksenia Chmutina is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable and Resilient Urbanism at the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. Her research explores the processes of disaster risk creation, using her work to draw attention to the fact that disasters are not natural. She is a co-host of the podcast ‘Disasters: Deconstructed’.

Jason von Meding is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida and a founding faculty member of the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER). He researches disasters – particularly how injustice and inequality are the fundamental drivers of risk in society, and therefore shape disaster impacts. As part of his focus on public facing science communication, he is co-host of the Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast and tweets @vonmeding.

Neil Sadler is a lecturer in translation and interpreting at Queen’s University Belfast. He specialises in digital culture and how stories are told on social media. Sadler’s research focuses principally on translated and multi-lingual narratives on social media, with an emphasis on news mediation by citizens and activists in Egypt and the broader Arab world.

Amer Hamad Issa Abukhalaf is a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida in the USA and a research assistant at Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, with a research focus on resilience at institutions of higher education in the U.S.