Peter was co-director of Climate Futures research centre (2012-2015), a founding member of the Global Resilience Collaborative and director of Sociology at Macquarie University (2015-2019). His inter-disciplinary research spans disasters, governmentality, citizenship, subculture and cities. He is also a performing and publishing poet under the pen name 'Peter Roads', performs spoken word internationally and is a curator for Loose Leaf Literature. He works in multi-media art forms across a number of collaborations based in Sydney, Australia.