Founders

Founders/Co-Leads

Professor Tema Milstein

Dr. John Carr

Professor of Environment & Society, UNSW

Senior Lecturer of Environment & Society, UNSW

Tema Milstein is Professor of Environment & Society at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She is an environmental communication scholar, known for cultural approaches to studying how communication shapes ecological understandings, identities, and actions. Her work tends to discourses that go unnoticed and their connections to wider dominant destructive practices or sustainable, just, and regenerative futures. Her co-edited books include the (now open access free to the public) Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity (2020) and (now open access free to the public) Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice (2017). She is co-lead of (Daily) Delight~Disrupt, a co-generated research-based project to ignite everyday ecocentrism around the world.

John Carr is a Senior Lecturer of Environment & Socety at University of New South Wales. He is an urban and legal geographer whose work focuses on the intersections of urban geography, law, planning, activism and human and non-human environments. His research interrogates the work required to reinforce the boundaries between the urban and the more-than-human, and explores ways to break down those boundaries to make our built environments and societies more environmentally and socially restorative. He is a senior lecturer with the Environment and Society Group at UNSW. He is co-lead of (Daily) Delight~Disrupt, a co-generated global project to translate restorative change-focused research into igniting everyday ecocentrism.