Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education SEAE research cluster

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, poststructural, 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 Roussell 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

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The team behind SEAE

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SEAE research candidates

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