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.
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.
Jane Merewether, Murdoch University, Australia
I am a Senior Lecturer of Early Childhood, Indigenous and Cultural Studies. My work explores young children’s relations within their social and material environments in the context of ecological change. In particular, I am interested in cultivating pedagogies and response-abilities for living well with the world.
Catherine Hamm, The University of Melbourne, Australia
I am a sixth-generation settler to Bunurong/Boon Wurrung Country in the Kulin Nation. My teaching, research and writing foreground First Nations perspectives and environmental humanities, responding to children’s relations with Place and multispecies communities.
Kelly Boucher, Independent Scholar, Dja Dja Wurrung Country (Victoria, Australia)
I am pedagogical leadership coach working to support innovative thought leadership in early childhood education (and life!) My work engages with arts-based inquiry processes to cultivate curriculum that is active, lively and 'thinks otherwise' with materials and Place.
Mindy Blaise, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
I am a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow at ECU, co-director of Centre for People, Place, & Planet and co-founder of #FEAS, Feminist Educators Against Sexism. My research brings feminisms and art-activisms to interrupt and queer taken-for-granted practices in early childhood environmental education.