Dr Susanne Börner is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on youth everyday agency, emotions and urban well-being in the context of interconnected urban crises. She also researches on the interconnections of climate change and mental health as well as decolonial perspectives on human-nature relations, individual and planetary healing and ancestral wisdom. Susanne is particularly interested in the experiences of those growing up and living ‘at the margins’, such as children and young people as well as multi-generational contexts of knowledge generation. Susanne has a particular interest in participatory knowledge co-production. Her Marie Curie Global Fellowship (2019-2023) explored how young people in Brazil can live better with and develop long-term (emotional) resilience in contexts of resource scarcity and disaster risk. As theme lead for the research theme “ Sustainable, Liveable and Resilient Cities” at the Centre for Urban Wellbeing she also aims to generate pathways for integrating youth knowledge into public policies for a healthy urban development. Here, she aims to learn from community-based knowledges, lived experiences, knowings, beings, and everyday practices to generate positive change.