Mittul is a senior lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning discipline. Her research examines how disaster-related housing recovery efforts intersects with community resilience, emphasizing climate adaptation and diverse cultures in Australasia and the Pacific. Her research focuses on two key areas:
1) institutional level design and governance of recovery programs, and
2) the long-term impacts of these housing recovery efforts on capacity building for disaster- and climate-informed decision-making.
She employs collaborative methodologies in her work, engaging in co-design and collective knowledge creation, with various stakeholders to uphold housing as a human right and enhance resilience.
