Keynote SpeakerTuesday 18th November 2025
Professor Renaud Joannes-Boyau
Dr Renaud Joannes-Boyau is the Director of Higher Degree Research Training at Southern Cross Geoscience, Southern Cross University. https://www.scu.edu.au/southern-cross-geoscience/ Dr Joannes-Boyau’s research focuses on the development and application of direct dating methods and micro-analytical techniques to key questions in archaeological sciences, such as the timing of human evolution, interaction with the surrounding environment and ecological niche, as well as hominids diet and early life history.
Forum Panellists - Riding the Data WaveTuesday 18 November 2025
Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles
BEd(Hons)(Griff), PhD(CQU)
Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles is a Professor of Sustainability, Environment and Education at Southern Cross University. She is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, as well as the Research Leader of the Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Centre.
Professor Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles’s 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 2024-2027 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant on climate change education on/with Country. She has published more than 180 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 and Citation (OLT) and an Australian Association for Environmental Education Fellowship (Life Achievement Award) for her outstanding contribution to environmental education research. Amy is also the immediate past Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education (Cambridge University Press).