Marcia McKenzie is Professor and Associate Dean Sustainability in the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. She is Director of the Monitoring and Evaluating Climate Communication and Education (MECCE) Project (www.mecce.ca) and the Sustainability and Education Policy Network (www.sepn.ca). Her research areas include global education policy research, geographies of education, and climate and sustainability education, including in relation to place, mobilities, and affect theory. She is co-author/editor of a number of books, including Researching Global Education Policy: Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement (Policy Press, 2024), Navigating the Research-Policy Relationship: Studies in Environmental and Sustainability Education (2024, Routledge), Critical Education and Sociomaterial Practice: Narration, Place, and the Social (Peter Lang, 2016), and Place in Research: Theory, Methodology, and Methods (Routledge, 2015); and co-edits the book series Lobal Global Issues in Education (Routledge) and Studies in Education and the Environment (Palgrave).
This is a national reading project designed to support teachers and members of the public worldwide in engaging with award-winning Indigenous Australian writing and exploring the relationship between climate and racial justice in Indigenous-authored texts.