Celeste Young
About
Celeste is a collaborative Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities at Victoria University, Melbourne. She specialises in high impact end user based research. For the last 20 years her research and practice has focused on proactive decision making and management of systemic risks such as climate change and natural hazards. She has extensive experience in working with stakeholders across the public, private and community sector to develop new knowledge with them and integrating it into existing pre-existing systems.
Celeste has worked collaboratively for over a decade with the Emergency Services Sector and has led research projects for the BNHCRC in the area of Risk ownership, Diversity and Inclusion and community experiences following the Black Summer Bushfires. Her award winning work is used by practitioners and policy makers here and overseas and has been featured in state and federal policy. She has also advised into government on climate change communication and practice, and her end user led methodology "working from the inside out". She was a contributing author for the 2014 IPCC chapter Foundations of Decision Making.
She has also been a member of the Research Advisory Committee for the Australian Institute of Financial Studies, a member of the Steering Committee for the Institute of Sustainable Industries and served on the Board of Platform Youth Theatre.