Colette Mortreux is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Monash University. Her research examines climate change adaptation and migration. She has held research fellowships at the University of Melbourne and at Exeter University focussing on adaptation in small island developing states, as well as the political economy of resettlement in Ghana, Bangladesh, and India. Mortreux has also spent several years conducting fieldwork in Australia as a senior research consultant at the Australian National University's Social Research Centre as well as exploring bushfire risk reduction for her PhD.