Research Handbook on Childhoodnature

Dr. Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (formerly Cutter-Mackenzie) is a Professor at Southern Cross University, School of Education, in Sustainability, Environment and Education.  She is the Deputy Dean Research & HDR Training for the School of Education, as well as the Research Leader of the 'Sustainability, Environment, the Arts in Education' (SEAE) Research Cluster.Prof. Karen Malone is in the Department of Education, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. She researches in science and environmental education, urban and animal ecologies, and childhood studies with a specific focus on children's environmental encounters with the mone than human world of damaged urban landscapes. Her current research program is located under the overarching theme of Children in the Anthropocene. Within this program, she has five enmeshed research themes that entwine a series of research interests and activities: Children sensing ecologically; Children's bodies on damaged landscapes; Children's multi-species companions; Children's watery lives and Children's natural play.Elisabeth Barratt Hacking is the Deputy Head of the Department of Education at the University of Bath and Director of Studies for the MA Education. Elisabeth is a founding member of the University's Childhood, Wellbeing and Education Special Interest Group.