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Sustainability, Environment, and the Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Centre
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This research concentration was established in 2012 and is co-led by Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles and Professor Alexandra Lasczik.
The Sustainability, Environment, and the Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Centre is globally recognised for enacting profound change in/through transdisciplinary environmental and Arts education research that disrupts and generates new ways of being and becoming, which provokes dynamic responses to critical local-global calamities.
This research centre represents a large collective of researchers working across sustainability, environment and the Arts in education. This centre is unique and has a transdisciplinary research focus which directly informs public debate, policy, advocacy and practice.
The SEAE Research Centre squarely:
- Engages in creative research practices to disrupt and transform ecological thought and action in the context of anthropogenic climate change
- Stimulates transformation of/through nature interrelationships in the Anthropocene;
- Engages and foregrounds Indigenous philosophies and knowings
- Actively disrupts and transforms models of education (curriculum, pedagogy and policy) through ecological and artful positionings
- Interrogates and advances a range of theories in posthuman, socioecological, post-structural, and intersectional feminism
- Interrogates and advances a range of methodologies including post qualitative, Arts-based, child/youth-framed, and participatory research
- Enacts public pedagogy through ecological and artful practice
- Communicates and disseminates research discovery through transformative and creative impact and engagement modalities.
SEAE Impact and Engagement
- Baroutsis, A., and Lingard, B. (2023). Exploring education policy through newspapers and social media: The politics of mediatisation. Routledge. ISBN 9781032215297
- Mackinlay, E., Mickelburgh, R., Monro, A., & Evans, B. (2023). Interim Project Report: What’s worrying young people? Tuning into and turning up the conversation on consent in tertiary residential colleges. Southern Cross University. https://doi.org/10.25918/report.298
- Laura Rodriguez Castro - Antipode Foundation Rights to the Discipline Grant - "Healing Juntanza" Funding $17,138
- Aiden Coleman - The Conversation - article "Poet, editor, publisher, anthologist: John Tranter’s influential life in literature"
- Rousell, D., Wijesinghe, T., Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., & Osborn, M. (2023). Digital media, political affect, and a youth to come: rethinking climate change education through Deleuzian dramatisation. Educational Review, 75(1), 33-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1965959
- Associate Professor Louise Phillips - Hardy, I., Phillips, L., Reyes, V., & Hamid, M.O. (2023). Reimagining and demystifying data: a storytelling approach, Comparative Education, DOI:10.1080/03050068.2023.2189677
- Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles & Lasczik, A. Arts-based thought experiments for a post-human earth: a Touchstones companion (Brill, 2022)
- Melissa Wolfe - Mapping gendered affects: an inquiry into student feelings on entry to an Australian selective STEM high school. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-14. (December 2022)
- David Rousell and Professor Amy-Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles - Posthuman research playspaces Climate child imaginaries (Routledge, December 2022)
- Associate Professor Louise Phillips - How storytelling can work as a pedagogy to facilitate children’s English as a foreign language learning. (Language Teaching Research, November 2022)
- Dr Melissa Wolfe - An affective cartography of choice, aspiration and belonging; mapping students’ feelings during an Australian rural student science exchange program (The Australian Educational Researcher, October 2022)
- Dr Melissa Wolfe - Erasures of gender in/equity in Australian schooling: " The program is not about turning boys into girls" (Gender and Education, July 2022)
- Professor Lexi Lasczik - Propositional A/r/tography: An Analytical Protocol (Qualitative Inquiry June 2022)
- Associate Professor Louise Phillips - Qld Education Horizon Grant Enabling child and youth global citizenship literacies and leadership. Funding $66,400
- The Childhoodnature Play Research Team: Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs (The Conversation, September 23, 2021)
- SEAE’s research impact in childhood environmental education evaluated at the highest level in Australia’s Engagement and Impact evaluation