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Researchers in this cluster
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Name Interests Rose Hawkins Sustainability strategy A/Professor Peter Raisbeck Architectural History, Design Activism, Design Procurement, Architecture as a Global System, Architects and the Climate Emergency, Valuing Architectural Services, Architects and R&D, Architectural Archives, Robin Boyd Sarah Hunter Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Design Research Andrew Irvin Nissology, Creative Practice, Climate Change, Mobility, Sustainability, Science Fiction, Media Studies, Media Production, Conservation Associate Professor Stanislav Roudavski Generative design, interspecies design, ecocentric design, more-than-human design, design futures, digital fabrication, computational creativity, design innovation, critical design studies Professor Ray Green Environmental Planning and Design, Tourism, Sustainability, Environmental Perceptions, Nature and Health, Coastal Settlements, Trees in Cities, Character of Place, Research Methodologies Dr Wendi Li Climate change communications Dr Judit Kroo Japan, Policy, Ecological Knowledges, Recovery, Post-Disaster Communities, Future-Imagining, Linguistics, Anthropology, Korea Professor Daiane Scaraboto Platform Markets, Consumer Culture, Sustainable Consumption, Co-creation, Collaborative consumption, Netnography, Extended materiality, Cultural Appropriation, commerce, management, tourism and services Professor Marcia McKenzie Critical Policy Studies, Education Policy, Global and Comparative Education, Climate Change Education, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Mobilities, Place, Affect, Geographies of Education Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick Measurement, Technology, Psychology, Adolescent, Wellbeing Science, Mental Health, Biofeedback, Success, Nature Dr Mobina Sahraee Juybari Languages and literacies, Languages and literacies, Translanguaging, Language as recourse, Bi/multilingualism, Transculturality, Language curriculum, Applied linguistics, Language and cultureDr Jayson Cooper STEM Learning Ecologies, Early Childhood Studies, Sound Studies and Acoustic Ecologies, Place-based Education, Public Pedagogies, First Nations–Settler Relations, Postqualitative Arts-based methodologies, Multimodality, Sustainability and Environmental relations Dr Janelle Evans Periodic table, education & educational research, social sciences, specialist studies in education, first nations-first, translation, education, education, scientific disciplines, history, heritage and archaeology Cameron Deyell Interactive composition Siri Hayes Photography Professor Carol Brown Choreography, Interdisciplinarity, Dance, Art-Sci, Artistic Research, Critical-Creative, Improvisation, Feminist Performance, Choreographic Thinking Dr Jodie Valpied Environmental psychology, Biodiversity & ecology, Personality psychology, Individual differences within species, Openness to experience, Introversion, Platypus conservation, Connectedness to nature, Healthy waterways & catchments Sean Walsh Energy, environment, sustainability Maddison Miller Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Heritage, Country, Land Management, Ecology, Archaeology, Storytelling, Audio Production, Place Making
About the cluster
Levers for Deep Change Cluster explores the undercurrents of culture, meaning, semantics, semiotics, psychology and sociology that informs our attitudes to and relationships with nature. This diverse cohort of academics and researchers explore ways to share, communicate and advocate for nature through our many and varied forms of expression.
The areas of focus of the cluster include but are not limited to:
- Nature-Creative Arts-Technology nexus
- Nature connection, communication, arts, culture spiritual and religious approaches
- Ethics, naturecultures, biophilic design
- Indigenous knowledges and ‘more-than-human’ worlds
- Personhood of nature
- Law, new economic models, governance and politics
- Education, philosophy, community and place
- Awareness-engagement -intention-action
- Histories of ‘nature’ and ecology
Research Projects
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Understanding perspectives and practices related to feral pig control, use and management in the Otways
By exploring public understandings of feral pigs and the environment, the research supports more effective and ethical management.
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The Song of the Cricket
An interdisciplinary initiative using modular floating islands to restore biodiversity by reintroducing invertebrates and rebuilding food webs.
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Greening Constitutional Law: Pedagogical Pathways to Ecological Well-Being
Examining anthropocentric assumptions embedded in Australian constitutional law and exploring the potential for incremental norm change through legal education.
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A Framework for Nature Wonder Recognition for Cities
Through collaborative stakeholder engagement and co-design the project will produce an influencer-focused communication campaign and test interest in cities as natural wonders.
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Nature-Inspired Awe: Relationship with Transcendence and Ecological Care Across Cultures
Scoping review examining how awe-inspiring nature experiences relate to transcendence and environmental action.
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Guided nature interpretation for connection: Learning from program leaders
Investigating how programs in Australia encourage connections that support care for biodiversity.
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Reimagining ocean governance through an ethic of care lens
Developing a theoretical framework for applying an ethic of care to ocean governance, shifting the paradigm from exploitation to reciprocity.
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From Anthropocentrism to Interbeing: Overcoming Barriers to Ecological Awareness for the Biodiversity Crisis Through Immersive Experience
Co-designing a multi-user virtual reality experience that translates deep ecology ritual and contemplative practice into group perspective-taking exercises.
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Waking Up in Australia: Biodiversity, Sound, Temporality
Developing a novel approach to biodiversity by exploring its relationship with perceptions, experiences, and everyday structures of time.
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Recording Marine Worlds: Dialogues on Sound, Conservation, and Culture
This project promotes interdisciplinary knowledge of marine worlds with a focus on sound recording as an array of technologies, practices, and conceptual models.