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.
Penny Lawrence, Roehampton University, UK
I am Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies. My current dialogical research focusses on early childhood relationships in urban environments.
Philipp Klaus, Alma Forest School, Spain
I am the Principal of a small progressive school (https://almaforestschool.com) located in the south of Spain. My research interests include how to foster radical empathy that includes the more-than-human world, and how student/teacher relationships can be freed from institutionalized discourses and reframed in more human dimensions.
Patty Born, Hamline University, USA
I'm the program director for Hamline's Master of Arts in Environmental Education, and co-director of our Environmental Studies program. My scholarly work is situated within ecojustice pedagogies, intersectional environmental education and I am particularly attuned to centering other-than-human/human connections and relations in early childhood settings.
Joshua Russell, Canisius College, USA
I am an associate professor and director of the Anthrozoology graduate program at Canisius College. My research bridges phenomenology, queer theory, childhood studies, animal studies, and environmental education, with a key focus on children’s experiences of animal deaths.
Smruthi Bala Kannan, University of Chicago, USA
I am a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago. I completed my doctoral work at the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden. My current research explores how environmental and human health entangle in young people’s lived experiences and complex negotiations in postcolonial contexts.
Nicole Land, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
I am an assistant professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. My research focuses on children’s relations with fats, muscles, and movement through crafting postdevelopmental pedagogies that take seriously how bodies are implicated in complex common worlds.
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Western University, Canada
I am a Professor of Early Childhood Education at Western University. My research contributes to the Common Worlds Research Collective and the Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory. I am interested in the real life-worlds that 21st-century children inherit, inhabit, and share with others – human and more-than-human; and how these life-worlds are shaped by the legacies of anthropogenic environmental damage, imperial expansion, colonial dispossession, global inequalities, and displacements.
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.