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.
Pablo Aránguiz Mesías, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
I am a professor at the intercultural indigenous williche Wekimün Chilkatuwe, Chiloé archipelago, Chile; associate researcher at the Young Lives Research Lab, York University, Canada; and PhD researcher at the INGENIO institute (CSIC-UPV), Spain. My research brings into dialogue decolonial approaches in pedagogy, youth studies, and common worlds encounters.
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.
Teresa Smith, University of Western Ontario, Canada
I am a MPEd student and community pedagogist with the BC Early Childhood Pedagogy Network. My work with children, educators and families, centres relations with more-than-human companions. With drawing and other arts practices, I am interested in enlivening slow dialogues with plants, creating processes to engage with more-than-human knowledges, and opening conversations about 21st century childhoods.
Sharon Witt, Independent Scholar, UK
I am an early childhood/primary teacher and university teacher educator in geography and environmental education. As Co-Director of @Attention2Place, I engage children, teaching professionals and local communities in place responsive and relational pedagogical encounters with more-than-human worlds. I research from transdisciplinary, materialist, and posthumanist perspectives.
Sylvia Kind, Capilano University, Canada
I am a faculty instructor in early childhood education at CapU, and atelierista at the Capilano University Children’s Centre. My research engages with research-creation, a/r/tography, and feminist materialisms as I explore young children’s studio practices, their lively material improvisations and collective experimentations.
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.
Cynthia López Valenzuela, 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos, Península de Yucatán México.
I`m a doctoral candidate in Critical Theory at 17, Instituto researching, with Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw as my tutor, the process of transition to a collective disposition and more-than-human relations in the pedagogical practices in Latin America context. I work as Education and Culture Coordinator at Fundación Haciendas del Mundo Maya developing community education projects along with indigenous and rural communities in the península de Yucatán.