Telephone: | +61 8 6304 2513 |
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Email: | k.wrigley@ecu.edu.au |
Campus: | South West |
Kylie is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow within the School of Arts and Humanities.
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.