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Dr Kylie Wrigley

Kylie is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Background

Kylie is a researcher, educator, and climate justice organiser interested in fostering and sustaining social and structural change. She currently lives on Noongar Whadjuk and Bindjareb Boodja in Western Australia and has also lived, studied, and worked in countries including Botswana, South Africa, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Norway. Kylie’s interdisciplinary research background has focussed on climate change, climate justice, environmental and political movements in Australia and internationally. She prefers to use socially engaged research methodologies, such as participatory action research, to co-create knowledge and action with communities, emphasising feminist and decolonial ethics of care, relationality and reciprocity. Kylie also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate sustainable development units at Murdoch University. Kylie has worked in various capacities, including as a community organiser for the Wilderness Society and as a local government sustainability officer coordinating community initiatives, organisational strategy and policy development. She has been a climate justice organiser and advocate for over a decade, working on campaigns, training programs and research that centres Aboriginal, youth, and community voices and actions for fair and transformative responses to climate change that heal County, dismantle unjust systems and better social relations.

Professional associations

  • 2024 - current - Climate Justice Union WA, committee member
  • 2021- current - Centre for People Place and Planet, graduate research member
  • 2022 - 2025 - Alcoa Waroona Sustainability Fund Advisory Committee, community member
  • 2022- 2024 - The Australian Sociological Association, member
  • 2018- 2020 - Tvergastein Journal, Board Member 2018 - 2020
  • 2018 - Canning Reconciliation Action Plan Committee, chair
  • 2015-2018 - Perth Community Organizing Collective - founding member

Awards and recognition

National and International research awards

  • 2024 - School of Arts and Humanities Research Medal
  • 2024 - Centre for People, Place and Planet Director’s Citational Justice Award
  • 2024 - Graduate Women Western Australia Scholarship (Research in Social Justice and Social Justice Law)
  • 2021-2024 – Carolyn Allport scholarship for postgraduate feminist studies
  • 2020-2023 – ECU Climate Justice Scholarship
  • 2019 – Arne Næss scholarship

Research areas and interests

  • Feminist and decolonial climate justice
  • Sustainability transformations
  • Community organising and advocacy
  • Care and relational ethics
  • Participatory Action Research
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