Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles

Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles is the Executive Dean of Southern Cross University’s world-leading Faculty of Education, as well as the Research Leader of the ‘Sustainability, Environment, and the Arts in Education’ (SEAE) Research Centre. She is a career primary-secondary school teacher. Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles’s research centres on climate change, childhoodnature, posthuman philosophy, and child-framed research methodologies. She is particularly focused on the pivot points between education, science, and philosophy. Professor Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles has led over 40 national/international research projects, and is the lead Chief Investigator for two current Australian Research Council (ARC) projects on climate change education. She has published more than 190 publications with her latest book entitled ‘Posthuman Research Playspaces: Climate Child Imaginaries’ (with Rousell, Routledge). Professor Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles has been recognised for both her teaching and research excellence in environmental education, including an Australian Teaching Excellence Award (OLT) and an Australian Association for Environmental Education Fellowship (Life Achievement Award) for her outstanding contribution to environmental education research.