Jessie A. Bustillos Morales,UCL Institute of Education, UK
I work at the Institute of Education which is University College London's Faculty of Education. I am an educator, researcher and writer who has worked in academia for over thirteen years across several institutions in the UK. With an interdisciplinary background including sociology, philosophy and education, I am interested in exploring educational and social inequalities through innovative theoretical frameworks and creative methodologies relevant to everyday educational practice, such as, new materialist and posthuman pedagogies. My scholarship operates in the intersections of youth studies, methodology, philosophy and critical theory/pedagogy. I have published in various educational journals and have co-authored and co-edited several books published by Routledge, including Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising Educational Disparities in Uncertain Times (2024) and Towards Posthumanism in Education Theoretical Entanglements and Pedagogical Mappings (2024).
Maureen Cullen, Mount Royal University, Canada
I am a registered early childhood educator and an assistant professor of Child Studies. My research is grounded in Feminist New Materialist frameworks and Common Worlds pedagogies. I critically engage with the dominant discourses of scientism, modernism, and developmentalism in early childhood education, aiming to disrupt these paradigms by fostering more-than-human kinships and multispecies pedagogies. My dissertation explores the integration of pedagogical documentation, more-than-human kinships, and speculative storytelling in curriculum-making processes. Through my research, I aim to cultivate inclusive and equitable learning environments, offering hope for creative responses to global challenges such as climate change and promoting mutual flourishing for all entities, human and more-than-human.
Issei Yamamoto
I am an associate professor at Shiga University, former preschool teacher at Early Childhood Art Education Research Center at Kyoto University of the Arts. My research focuses on a pedagogy based on the animistic imagination of early childhood, which I call “co-living imagination”. I am also interested in the possibility of describing education using the metaphor of “fermentation”.
Rocío Fatyass, Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina
Soy Licenciada en Sociología y Doctora en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad Nacional de Villa María. Además, soy investigadora del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Mi línea de estudio se relaciona con las experiencias infantiles, el cuidado y la investigación colaborativa con niñas y niños. Dirijo el proyecto Niñas y Niños Investigadores: experiencias de conocimiento desde un enfoque de género, protagónico y multiespecie y coordino el Programa Estudios Sociales en Infancias, Juventudes y Desigualdades.
Delia Byrnes, Allegheny College, USA
I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability, where I teach courses on environmental justice and culture, power, and environment. I hold a PhD in English and my research focuses on the relationship between energy regimes and environmental justice in contemporary US literature and culture.
Affrica Taylor, Austalia
These days I situate myself within the feminist environmental humanities. But my work has always been interdisciplinary - straddling fields of anti-colonialist, feminist and queer theory, cultural and children’s geographies and environmental education. I’m focused on experimenting with creative, collective/more-than-human research practices that are geared towards redressing the entangled social and environmental legacies of colonisation and capitalist excess and promoting reconnection, recouperation and regeneration.
Kathryn Riley, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan. My research is focused on posthumanist and ‘new’ materialist scholarship within an anticolonial praxis in education to promote a sense of belonging with Country/Land/Place.
Jo Pollitt, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
I am a Forrest Creative Fellow, artist-scholar with the Centre for People, Place, and Planet at ECU, and co-lead of #FEAS, Feminist Educators Against Sexism. My research is grounded in dance, kin/aesthetic, and artist-led processes in attuning and responding to the complexity of contemporary human-environment relations
Angela Molloy Murphy, The University of Melbourne, Australia
I am a Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, where I serve as a Collective Mentor. My current research is participatory, experimental arts-based inquiries regarding children’s caring relations with place and the more-than-human.
Mel McCree, Bath Spa University, UK
I am a senior lecturer and research fellow in Early Childhood Studies and Environmental Humanities, and chair my programme's Decolonising Childhood Working Group. I currently research family climate support and resilience. My expertise is in using creative, participatory methods to explore human environment relations, outdoor play, eco-social justice and equitable future wellbeing.
Kate Waterworth, AUT University, New Zealand
My research interests draw on Deleuze to move from sedimented concepts of child disability to something else.
Jaye Johnson Thiel, University of Alabama, USA
I am an Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies at UA. My research explores the production of childhood in the Deep South (USA) and how those productions are entangled with the affective forces of neoliberalism.
Mary Caroline Rowan, Concordia University, Canada
Collaborative research relationships with Inuit Nunangat lands, waters and ice. To propose and develop pedagogies and curricula of consequence to sentient beings, with local orientations and global sensibilities.
Nikki Rotas, Western University, Canada
I am an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University. My research pertains to early childhood pedagogies, philosophy with children, and the field of curriculum studies. I am interested in the role of affect in teaching and learning in urban contexts.
Kate Cairns, Rutgers University, USA
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. My work brings a feminist perspective to the politics of childhood, with particular focus on how young people are positioned as the promise or threat of collective futures.
Lisa-Marie Gagliardi, Seneca College, Canada
I am a Professor in the School of Early Childhood Education at Seneca College and a PhD candidate in Education Studies at Western University. My research emerges from the nexus of food studies, early childhood education and feminist environmental humanities with focus on crafting responsive otherwise food pedagogies with children.
Alex Berry, Western University, Canada
I recently completed my PhD in Curriculum Studies at Western University. I am an instructor of Early Childhood Education at Capilano University in North Vancouver, Canada and pedagogical coordinator/researcher with Santana school in Cuenca, Ecuador. Within postqualitative framings, my research puts into conversation research-creation and curriculum-making toward processes that might shape the emergence of alternative child-climate relations.
Narda Nelson, Western University, Canada
I am a Pedagogical Coordinator for the BC Early Childhood Pedagogy Network (ECPN) and pedagogist with UVic Child Care Services (Victoria, BC, Canada). I take an interdisciplinary approach to early childhood with a particular focus on reimagining ethical futures with plant, animal, & waste flow relations.
Adrianne Bacelar de Castro, Western University, Canada
I am Brazilian educator and PhD Candidate with years of experience working in elementary and secondary schools in Brazil. My research, inspired by common worlds pedagogies, is a humble response toward more livable worlds in the present human-modified geological epoch of the Anthropocene.
Sarah Hennessy, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
I am an artist/instructor/researcher teaching at the Faculty of Education and working with British Columbia's Early Childhood Pedagogist Network. My research merges art and pedagogy uncommoning early childhood environmental education in a more-than-human world.