Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles

Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles is the Executive Dean of Southern Cross University’s world-leading Faculty of Education, as well as the Research Leader of the ‘Sustainability, Environment, and the Arts in Education’ (SEAE) Research Centre. She is a career primary-secondary school teacher.

Professor Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles is one of the youngest women in Australia to be made a full professor at the age of 37. Her research centres on climate change, childhoodnature, posthuman philosophy, and child-framed research methodologies. She is particularly focused on the pivot points between education, science, and philosophy.

Professor Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles has led over 40 national/international research projects, and is presently the lead researcher on a 2024 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant on climate change education on/with Country.

She has published more than 150 publications with her latest book entitled ‘Posthuman Research Playspaces: Climate Child Imaginaries’ (with Rousell, Routledge).

Professor Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles has been recognised for both her teaching and research excellence in environmental education, including an Australian Teaching Excellence Award (OLT) and an Australian Association for Environmental Education Fellowship (Life Achievement Award) for her outstanding contribution to environmental education research.