Dr Peta White
Associate Professor
Peta is an Associate Professor in science and environmental education in the School of Education. Her research currently has a focus on the following areas: science and biology education; sustainability, environmental and climate change education; and collaborative/activist methodologies and embodied research practice. Peta is co-director of Deakin University’s Centre for Regenerating Futures.
Dr Shelley Hannigan
Senior Lecturer
Shelley works as a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University. She has been a practicing artist for over 30 years, as well as researching and teaching in visual/craft-media art education. Shelley draws on her multi practices as creative arts therapist, educator and artist in her research, inventing new arts informed/based methodologies.
Dr Jo Raphael
Senior Lecturer
Jo leads the Drama Education programs at Deakin University. She teaches, researches, and publishes with a focus on the transformative potential of the arts for learning across the curriculum, especially in environmental sustainability and climate change education. Jo enjoys interdisciplinary collaborations and participatory and arts-based research approaches. Jo is co-director of Deakin University’s Centre for Regenerating Futures.
Dr Robin Bellingham
Senior Lecturer
Robin is a teacher and researcher in education, pedagogy and curriculum at Deakin University. Her work responds to critical concerns such as the ongoing effects of colonization, and ecological crisis, by exploring ways to critique, challenge and reimagine the stories, ecologies and places of education and research.
Dr Danielle Hradsky
Research Fellow
Danielle is a drama/arts educator and researcher, gardener, and bushwalker. She is passionate about the power of the arts to create change in education, particularly in the areas of (re)conciliation, de/colonisation, and sustainability. Danielle lives and works on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations.