Dr Sophie Day (nee Nicholson-Cole) has nearly twenty years of environmental social science research experience around the notion of sustainable futures, with a particular expertise around the interplay of social, policy and technical challenges facing long-term adaptation to climate change in complex coastal contexts at local to international scales. She is presently seconded from the University of East Anglia to Coastal Partnership East, linking research and practice and supporting the real challenge of delivering adaptation to coastal change.