Briony Rogers is a Professor at Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI), where she is the CEO of Fire to Flourish and Director of MSDI Water.

Briony’s research career is focused on strengthening the capabilities and pathways for communities and practitioners to influence institutional, policy and regulatory conditions for thriving futures. She is interested in how transformative change can be catalysed and governed, with emphasis on collaborative processes and tools that support change in policy and practice. Through this lens, Briony has worked with cities and communities across Australia and internationally in action research settings to develop strategic guidance and practical support for pursuing visions of sustainable and resilient futures.

As CEO of Fire to Flourish, a community disaster resilience program, Briony leads a transdisciplinary team of community members, researchers and practitioners to advance community-led disaster resilience through a focus on strengthening community leadership, capabilities and social capital. The program has a particular emphasis on addressing cycles of disadvantage and systemic inequities in communities affected by bushfire.

Through MSDI Water, Briony brings together boundary spanning experts in water, sustainability, governance and system change. In her previous role as Chief Research Officer for the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, Briony oversaw interdisciplinary research on economics, planning, governance, transitions, modelling, urban design, urban heat and groundwater.

Briony has a PhD in Environmental Sociology, a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Science, and a background in engineering consulting. This has given her deep experience of interdisciplinary research and practice to drive system change.

Keywords

Sustainable development, water, cities, climate change, governance.

Research Interests

Briony’s research focus is on interdisciplinary solutions that have real-world impact for water, climate and cities. She is particularly interested in the dynamics and governance of sustainability transformations, with emphasis on collaborative processes and diagnostic tools that support change in policy and practice. She has worked with cities across Australia and internationally in action research settings to develop strategic guidance for cities pursuing visions of a water sensitive future.

Qualifications

PhD in Environmental Sociology (Monash University).
BEng (Honours) in Civil Engineering (Monash University).
BSc in Human Geography (Monash University).

Recent Publications

Rogers, B. C., Bertram, N., Gersonius, B., Gunn, A., Lowe, R., Murphy, C., Pasman, R., Radhakrishnan, M., Urich, C., Wong, T. H. F. & Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K., 2020, An interdisciplinary and catchment approach to enhancing urban flood resilience: a Melbourne case, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 378, 2168, 25 p.

Novalia, W., Rogers, B., Bos, A., Brown, R. R., Soedjono, E. & Copa Torrez, V., 2020, Transformative agency in co-producing sustainable development in the urban south, Cities. 102, 14 p.

Yasmin, T., Farrelly, M. & Rogers, B. C., 2019, Adaptive governance: a catalyst for advancing sustainable urban transformation in the global South, International Journal of Water Resources Development, 21 p.

Zischg, J., Rogers, B. C., Gunn, A. W., Rauch, W. & Robert, S., 2019, Future trajectories of urban drainage systems: A simple exploratory modeling approach for assessing socio-technical transitions, Science of the Total Environment, 651, p. 1709-1719 11 p.

Gimelli, F., Rogers, B. & Bos, A., 2019, Linking water services and human well-being through the Fundamental Human Needs Framework: The case of India, Water Alternatives: an interdisciplinary journal on water, politics and development. 12, 2, p. 715-733.

Find more of Briony's research publications and reports here.

https://www.themandarin.com.au/author/associate-professor-briony-rogers/

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7599326/disaster-survivors-an-untapped-resource/

https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/ajem-january-2023-building-resilience-not-ramparts-reimagining-emergency-management-in-the-era-of-climatic-disasters

https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2022/06/01/1384735/stronger-together-radical-resilience-in-disaster-recovery

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02214-9

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