Dr Namrata Bhattacharya-Mis is a senior lecturer and Programme Leader for Natural Hazard Management at the University of Chester, UK. Her research interests lie within the water, environment and community nexus. She has collaborated in a number of multidisciplinary research positioned at the intersection of physical geography, human geography and development studies. She has a doctorate in disaster management in the built environment with over 10 years of research experience in different government and non-government sectors in the global north and south. Her area of expertise includes but is not limited to modelling of disasters and risk management, challenges and core concepts of development in the global south, environmental extremes and human interactions, research design and methods applications with special reference to GIS. Furthermore, she also has experience of working with the Environment Agency (UK) and the World Bank in disaster-related projects.