Maegan is a PhD candidate at the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). Her research concerns how vulnerability is constructed through research, information and policy networks, and the implications of these constructions in how extreme heat is governed in Phoenix, Arizona. Preliminarily, Maegan is finding that public health and emergency management partnerships are at the centre of governing extreme heat and, therefore, are core players in how vulnerability is understood and 'known' in the governance of chronic disasters. This has clear implications for how people are catered to, treated in, and how they access public cooling centres and respites. Her research also sheds light on the processes involved in the elevation of some groups as 'vulnerable' and the silences surrounding others and hopes to ultimately unpack the various social forces and structural inequalities that underscore them.

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