Sarah Bell

Sarah Bell

Professor Sarah Bell is the City of Melbourne Chair in Urban Resilience and Innovation at the Melbourne Centre for Cities. Her research addresses urban resilience and community engagement with infrastructure, with a special interest in urban water systems. Her scholarly work draws on the social sciences to better understand how people, technologies and nature interact to create urban systems. Sarah is a Chartered Engineer, and Fellow of both the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) and Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (UK). Her latest book ‘Co-Designing Infrastructures’ will be published open-access by UCL Press in 2022.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.