Monty Nixon

Monty Nixon is a PhD student exploring how Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing can lead education systems to help people come to know, understand and care for the places they live.

Growing up walking through the mountain ranges of Arrente Country in the Central Deserts of Australia ignited Monty's passion for the outdoors, inspiring a move to Dja Dja Warrung Country, Central Victoria, to study Outdoor and Environmental Education. After graduating, Monty completed an Honours thesis, critically reflecting on relationships between rock climbers, Traditional Custodians and place meaning at Dyurrite Mount Arapiles. Monty has spent the previous four years as a research assistant on the Country as Teacher project in the Centre for Sustainable Communities at the University of Canberra.

Drawing on his experiences on the Country as Teacher Project at the University of Canberra and his background in Outdoor Education, Monty's PhD aims to help develop Outdoor and Environmental Educators to embedded their practice in Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing.