Grants
These are successfully funded grants shared by members of the collective.
2019-2025 Successful Grants
2026-2027 ARC Linkage Grant, Climate-forest-mitigation futures: Museums and diverse knowledge systems, Industry Partners: NSW Royal Botanic Gardens, Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Funded by Australian Research Council. (with Chief Investigators Fiona Cameron and Karen Malone)
2026 -2027 Enacting eco-democracy in education: Young students and More-than-human Relationships, Funded by Mid-Sweden University. (with Karen Malone, Linda Wilhelmsson and Teresa Polkin Postila)
2022-2025 ARC Linkage Curating Museum Collections for Climate Change Mitigation, Dr Fiona Cameron (WSU), Prof David Ellsworth (WSU) Prof Karen Malone (Swinburne), Dr Deborah Lawler-Dormer (MAAS), Adj A/Prof Mark Hughes (MAAS), Prof Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, Netherlands). Funded by Australian Research Council. (with Chief Investigators Fiona Cameron and Karen Malone)
2020-2023 Citizens with Rats: From citizen science toward non-anthropocentric education with young people and difficult urban companions (CitiRats©). Funded by Academy of Finland. (Chief Invesitagator Pauliina Rautio, Karen Malone external partner advisor))
2019-2021 Mapping Scientific Concepts through Nature Play in Early Childhood Education: Achieving Excellence in STEM through Evidence-Based Pedagogies, Funded by HORIZON QLD Government. (withLinda Knight and Karen Malone)
2019- 2025 Shared Grant Submissions
ARC 2023 Discovery Citizenkin: Children, Animals and Education, Lead CI Karen Malone (Swinburne), CI Tracy Young (Swinburne), CI Linda Knight (RMIT), and PI Pauliina Rautio (Oulu)
ARC Discovery Postcarbon Childhoods: researching climate, children, and plants, Prof.Karen Malone, A/Prof Linda Knight (RMIT) and A/Prof Iris Duhn (Monash), A/Prof Dawn Sanders (Gothenburg Uni Sweden).
ARC Discovery Animalising Childhoods: Imagining spaces of ecological justice, Karen Malone and Tracy Young
Special Invitations
Books under contract
Children Sensing Ecologically: Becoming Bird (Karen Malone Bloomsbury)
Weathering-with Climate Childhoods: Reimagining climate change education in the Anthropocene (Karen and Malone and Chi Ling Tran Springer)
2015-2025 Publications
This includes publications from members of the collective together or alone which contribute to our thinking and collective research and teaching.
Books
Malone, Karen, Angell, Mona-Lisa, Meireles Santos da Costa, Natália, Fønnebø, Bente, Jensen, Maybritt, Beirt Myrvold, Hanne, Hayashi Nakata, Reiko, Ottersland Myhre Cecilie, Merete Otterstad, Ann and Ann-Hege Lorvik Waterhouse (2025 in production) Earthly Methodologies as Unfolding Childhoods, Springer.
Malone, K, Blekinsop, S. Jickling, B, and Morse, M. (2024) Wilding Ecologies: Walking-with Glacier, Palgrave.
Malone, K, Tesar, M, and Arndt, S. (2020) Theorising Posthumanist Childhood Studies, Springer, Singapore.
Duhn, I., Malone, K., and Tesar, M. (2019) (eds) Urban Nature and Childhoods, London, Routledge.
Cutter-Mackenzie A., Malone K., Barratt Hacking E. (2019) (eds) Research Handbook on Childhoodnature. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham.
Young, T. C. (2019). Connections and disjunctions: Hum(an)imal becomings in early childhood. (PhD). Monash University, Melbourne.
Malone, Karen (2018) Children in the Anthropocene: Rethinking Sustainability and Child Friendliness in Cities, London:Palgrave Macmillan Publishers (Childhood and Development Series)
Malone, Karen, Truong, Son and Gray, Tonia (eds) (2017) Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times, London: Springer.
Book Chapters
Malone, Karen. (2025). Children’s Imaginaries of Ecological Civilizations: Mapping Theories and Ethics for a Transformative Ecological Education in Peters, M., Green, B.J., Misiaszek, G.W. and Zhu, X. (eds). Handbook of Ecological Civilization: Philosophy, History, Policy, and Pedagogy, Springer.
Malone, Karen and Corcoran, Peter Blaze (2025). Fostering Children’s Embodied Wisdom as Education for Ecological Civilizations in Peters, M., Green, B.J., Misiaszek, G.W. and Zhu, X. (eds). Handbook of Ecological Civilization: Philosophy, History, Policy, and Pedagogy, Springer.
Malone, K. (2024). Indigenous Children’s Speculative Future Imaginaries of Place, Weathering and Ruination, in Bishop, K., and Dimoulias, K., (Eds) The Routledge Handbook of the Built Environments of Diverse Childhoods, Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003284406-15
Malone, K. (2023). Childhoodnature: Applying a sympoietic approach to child-outdoor-nature encounters, in Jan Činčera, Bruce Johnson, Daphne Goldman, Iris Alkaher, Michal Medek (Eds) Outdoor Environmental Education in the Contemporary World, Springer.
Malone, K. (2023). Indigenous Children’s Speculative Future Imaginaries of Place, Weathering and Ruination, in Bishop, K., and Dimoulias, K., (Eds) The Routledge Handbook of the Built Environments of Diverse Childhoods, Routledge.
Malone, K., Young. T. and Tran. C. (2023) Post-humanism and Environmental Education, Oxford Bibliographies, Oxford University Press.
Malone, K, and Murris, K. (2022) Worlding, in Murris, K. (Ed). A Glossary for doing Postqualitative, new materialist and critical post humanist research across disciplines, Routledge.
Malone, K, and Murris, K. (2022) Human Exceptionalism, in Murris, K. (Ed). A Glossary for doing Postqualitative, new materialist and critical post humanist research across disciplines, Routledge.
Malone, K, and Murris, K. (2022) Matter, in Murris, K. (Ed). A Glossary for doing Postqualitative, new materialist and critical post humanist research across disciplines, Routledge.
Malone, K, and Taylor, C.A. (2022) Multispecies Kin, in Murris, K. (Ed). A Glossary for doing Postqualitative, new materialist and critical post humanist research across disciplines, Routledge.
Malone, K, and Bozalek, V. (2022) Post-anthropocentrism, in Murris, K. (Ed). A Glossary for doing Postqualitative, new materialist and critical post humanist research across disciplines, Routledge.
Malone, K, and Candace. R. Kuby. (2022) Posthumanism, in Murris, K. (Ed). A Glossary for doing Postqualitative, new materialist and critical post humanist research across disciplines, Routledge.
Malone, K, and Fullagar, S. (2022) Sensorial, in Murris, K. (Ed). A Glossary for doing Postqualitative, new materialist and critical post humanist research across disciplines, Routledge.
Malone, K, and Nxumalo, F. (2022) Spaceplace, in Murris, K. (Ed). A Glossary for doing Postqualitative, new materialist and critical post humanist research across disciplines, Routledge
Duhn, I., Malone, K., and Knight, L. (2022) Relational Mappings and Global Childhoods, in Yelland, N., Peters, L., Fairchild, N., Tesar, M., and Perez, M. (eds) Global Childhoods Handbook, Sage Publishers.
Malone, K, Diaz-Diaz, C, and Semenec, P,. (2020) Interview with Karen Malone, Posthumanist and New Materialist Methodologies, Singapore, Springer.
Duhn, I., Malone, K., and Tesar, M. (2019), Introduction: Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education, In Duhn, I., Malone, K., and Tesar, M. (eds) Urban Nature and Childhoods, London, Routledge
Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Logan, M., Khatun, F. & Malone, K. (2019). A Conceptual Cartography of Environmental Education. In E. Lees, J. E. Vinuales. Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Malone, K., Whitehouse, H., & Krasney, M. (2019). Childhoodnature and the Anthropocene:An Epoch of ‘Cenes’. In A Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, K Malone & E Barratt Hacking. (Ed). International Research Handbook on Childhoodnature – Assemblages of Childhood and Nature. The Netherlands: Springer.
Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, K Malone & E Barratt Hacking. (2019). Childhoodnature an assemblage adventure, In A Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, K Malone & E Barratt Hacking. (Ed). International Research Handbook on Childhoodnature – Assemblages of Childhood and Nature. The Netherlands: Springer.
Malone, K. (2019) Uneasy assemblages of childearthbodies, in Janice Kroeger and Meyers, C. (eds) Children, Elders, Earth, Routledge.
Malone, K (2019) Re-turning Childhoodnature: A Diffractive Account of the Past Tracings of Childhoodnature as a Series of Theoretical Turns, in Cutter-Mackenzie A., Malone K., Barratt Hacking E. (eds) Research Handbook on Childhoodnature. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham.
Young, T., & Bone, J. (2019). Troubling intersections of childhood/animals/education: Narratives of love, life, and death. In A. Cutter Mackenzie, K. Malone, & E. Hacking Barratt (Eds.), The International Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature. London: Springer International Publishing.
Young, T., & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A. (2019). Posthumanist learning: Nature as event. In A. Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A. Lasczik, J. Wilks, M. Logan, A. Turner, & W. Boyd (Eds.), Touchstones for deterritorializing socioecological learning: The Anthropocene, posthumanism and common worlds as creative milieux. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Young, T., & Rautio, P. (2019). Childhoodnature animal relations: Section overview. In A. Cutter Mackenzie, K. Malone, & E. Hacking Barratt (Eds.), The International Research Handbook on Childhoodnature: Assemblages of childhood and nature research. London: Springer International Publishing.
Malone, K, Dunn, I and Tesar, M. (2018) Greedy Bags of Childhoodnature Theories, in Cutter-Mackenzie, A, Malone, K, Barratt, E (eds) In Cutter-Mackenzie A., Malone K., Barratt Hacking E. (eds) Research Handbook on Childhoodnature. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham.
Malone, K. (2018) Co-mingling kin: exploring histories of uneasy human-animal relations as sites for ecological posthumanist pedagogies, in Teresa Lloro-Bidart and Valerie Banschbach (eds) Animals in Environmental Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogy, Palgrave Publishers.
Malone, K. (2017), Grappling with data, in Koro-Ljungberg, M, Loytonen, T., and Tesar, M (eds) Disrupting data in qualitative inquiry: Entanglements with the post-critical and post-anthropocentric, Peter Lang, USA.
Malone, K. (2017) Ecological Posthumanist theorising: Grappling with Child-Dog-Bodies, in Malone, K., Truong, S,. and Gray, T (eds) Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times, Springer: UK.
Malone, K. and Truong, S. (2017) Sustainability, Education and Anthropocentric Precarity, in Malone, K., Truong, S,. and Gray, T (eds) Reimagining Sustainability in Precarious Times, Springer: UK.
Rudd, A., Malone, K and Barlett, M. (2017), Participatory Urban Planning, Kudryavtsev, A. and Krasny, M (eds) Urban Environmental Education Review, Cornell University Press.
Malone, Karen. (2017) Planning for a sustainable future through the Child Friendly Cities, Bishop, K, (Editor) Designing for Kids in the City: Beyond Playgrounds and Skate Parks, Routledge.
Malone, Karen (2016) Place, Peters, Michael (ed) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Springer.
Malone, Karen (2016) Children and Sustainability, Peters, Michael (ed) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, Springer.
Malone, Karen (2016) Children’s Place Encounters: Place-Based Participatory Research to Design a Child- Friendly and Sustainable Urban Development. Skelton, T (Editor in Chief) Volume 8, Geographies of Children and Young People, Springer London.
Malone, Karen (2016) Child Friendly and Sustainable Cities: exploring children’s mobility, risk and agency at the global and local level, Skelton, T (Editor in Chief) Volume 12, Geographies of Children and Young People, Springer London.
Malone, K. (2016) “Dapto Dreaming” a place-based research and environmental education project supporting children to be active agents of environmental change, in Winograd, K. (ed) Education in Times of Environmental Crises: Teaching Children to be Agents of Change, Routledge.
Malone, K (2016) Posthumanist approaches to theorizing children’s human-nature relations, K. Nairn et al. (eds.), Space, Place and Environment, Geographies of Children and Young People Volume 3, DOI 10.1007/978-981-4585-90-3_14-1
Refereed Journal Articles
Parmar, S., Malone, K., and Young, T. (2025, in press). Post-ethno-botanic inquiry for researching plant-human relations, Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology,
Malone, K. (2025) Decolonialising Climate Crisis: Theorising Australian Black Summer Fires as Posthumanist and Indigenous Convergence, Theory, Culture and Society, 42 (4), 23-41. [Q1]
Lasczik, A., Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Paquette, M. L., Osborn, M., Malone, K., & Knight, L. (2025). Eco-aesthetics and childhoodnature: cartographies of nature play in early childhood education and care. Children’s Geographies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2025.2550717
Lascik, L., Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Osborn, M., Malone, K and Knight., L. (2025) Engaging visual diaries in early childhood nature play as pedagogical arousal, Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 50 (2), 188-210 DOI: 10.1177/18369391241276885
Parmar, S., Malone, K., and Young, T. (2024) Planty Childhoods: Theorising with a Vegetal Ontology in Environmental Education Research, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 40(2), 243-257. doi:10.1017/aee.2024.29 [Q2]
Malone, K. and Young, T. (2023) Making Kin: Exploring New Pedagogical Openings in Sustainability Education in Higher Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory Journal, 55 (11), 1205-1219, Special Issue “Retheorising Environmental Sustainability Education in Anthropocene” DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2023.2225768 [Q1]
Malone. K. and Tran, C. (2023) Diffracting Child-Virus Multispecies Bodies: a Rethinking of Sustainability Education with East – West Philosophies, Educational Philosophy and Theory Journal, 55 (11), 1296-1310, Special Issue “Retheorising Environmental Sustainability Education in Anthropocene” DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2142554 [Q1]
Young, T. and Malone, K. (2023). Reconfiguring environmental sustainability education by exploring past/present/future pedagogical openings with pre-service teachers, Teaching in Higher Education, 28 (5), 1077-1094. DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2023.2197112 [Q1]
Malone, K, and Crinall, S. (2023) Children as Worlding but not Only: holding space for unknowing and undoing, unfolding and ongoing, Children’s Geographies. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2023.2219624 [Q1]
Malone, K. Young, T and Tran, C. (2023). Posthumanism and Environmental Education, Oxford Education Bibliographies, Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199756810/obo-9780199756810-0308.xml
Malone, K. and Young, T. (2023) Retheorising Environmental Sustainability Education for the Anthropocene Educational Philosophy and Theory Journal, 55 (11),1200-1204. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2152327 [Q1]
Young, T, Crinall, S and Malone, K. (2022), Disruptions of post-qualitative research: Tensions and Openings, Qualitative Inquiry, 28 (3-4), 312-321, DOI: 10.1177/10778004211038255 [Q1]
Malone, K., (2020). Mapping making philosophy in education; Lines, knots and knotting. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 36 (2), 97-104. [Q2]
Malone, K., Logan, M., Siegel, L., Regalado, J., & Wade-Leeuwen, B. (2020). Shimmering with Deborah Rose: Posthuman theory-making with feminist ecophilosophers and social ecologists. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 1-17. doi:10.1017/aee.2020.23 [Q2]
Malone, K. (2019). Worlding with Kin: Diffracting Childfish Sensorial Ecological Encounters through Moving Image, Video Journal of Education and Pedagogies, 4, pp.69-80.
Malone, K. (2019). Walking-with children on blasted landscapes, Journal of Public Pedagogies, 4, pp. 155-164.
Cole, D., & Malone, K. (2019). Environmental education and philosophy in the Anthropocene. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 35(3), 157-162. doi:10.1017/aee.2020.5 [Q2]
Malone, K and Moore, S.J., (2019). Sensing Ecologically through Kin and Stones, International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 7(1), p. 8-25.
Duhn, Iris, Malone, Karen and Tesar, Marek (2017), Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education, Environmental Education Researcher, 23, (10), p. 1357-1368. DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2017.1390884 [Q1]
Malone, Karen. (2016) Reconsidering children’s encounters with nature and place using posthumanism, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 32(1), 1-15.
Reports
Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Osborne, M., Lasczik, L., Malone, K., and Knight, L. (2021). The Mud Book: Nature Play Framework, Queensland Government Department of Education. https://childhoodnatureplay.com/the-mudbook-nature-play-framework/
Malone, Karen., Moore, Sarah Jane., and Ward, Kumara., (2019) Children’s Bodies Sensing Ecologically: a study of pre-language children’s ecological encounters, Western Sydney University Research Report.
Media
The Conversation Published Articles
Schools have moved outdoors in past disease outbreaks. Here are 7 reasons to do it again. Author Professor Karen Malone Published 11/10/2021 https://theconversation.com/schools-have-moved-outdoors-in-past-disease-outbreaks-here-are-7-reasons-to-do-it-again-168481 Impact 10,798 reads; 1524 shares, 5 radio interviews
Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs. Authors Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Professor Alexandra Lasczik, Professor Karen Malone, Professor, Linda Knight, Dr. Maia Osborn, Ms. Mahi, Published 23/9/2021 https://theconversation.com/children-learn-science-in-nature-play-long-before-they-get-to-school-classrooms-and-labs-166106 Impact 36,016 reads, 13,359 shares, 6 radio interviews
How to use a trip to the playground to help your children strengthen their memory. Author Professor Karen Malone Published 28/06/2021 https://theconversation.com/how-to-use-a-trip-to-the-playground-to-help-your-children-strengthen-their-memory-163424 10,603 reads, 654 shares, 4 radio interviews
ABC Interview (5/09/2020) Screen Time vs ‘Green Time’: New research suggests parents are right to nag kids about playing outside. Malone discussing the merits of international study looking at “screen time versus green time” and the impact on children’s mental health. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-09-05/screen-time-mental-health-kids-adolescents/12612454
Environmental Sustainability Education in the Anthropocene Collective 