about blanche
I’m an Australian climate change educator and researcher currently living on unceded Gadigal Country. I grew up on the edge of the forest north of Bendigo, on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, surrounded by dry eucalypt forest, large mobs of hungry kangaroos in dusty paddocks, and big blue skies full of cockatoos and galahs.
I have over ten years’ experience teaching sustainability and climate change in universities, as well as experience in community-based climate change communication and activism. I am passionate about supporting people to engage with the emotional, ethical, and existential complexities of climate change, because I know this is a foundation for all our efforts, small and grand, to cultivate climate justice.
As a researcher, I have a multidisciplinary background, with degrees in science, social science and education. Theoretically, my work draws on and contributes to eco-feminist, posthuman, multispecies and affect studies. My work centres around exploring how people do, and how we could, understand, relate and respond to climate change, and the ways that we might better imagine and practice climate change education, communication and engagement. Given my work with undergraduate students, I’m passionate about young people’s experiences of climate change, and supporting their activism.
I am a Research Fellow in the Sydney Environment Institute, and Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies, at the University of Sydney. You can find more info about me here.
Separately, I am the Chair of the Board of Climate for Change, an awesome grassroots organisation supporting community engagement in climate democracy.
