Blanche Verlie

Dr. Blanche Verlie is a Sydney Horizon Fellow in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Her work focuses on climate change's socio-emotional dimensions, drawing on feminist and multispecies philosophies. Affiliated with the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, Sydney Environment Institute, and the Vere Gordon Childe Centre, she explores how climate change affects human and non-human relations. Her research spans climate education, activism, and justice, emphasizing emotional responses to ecological crises.

Key projects include studying youth climate strikes and disaster resilience strategies. She has been awarded the Environmental Politics Article of the Year (2022) and authored Learning to Live with Climate Change: From Anxiety to Transformation. Current students include Hannah DELLA BOSCA and Freya Grace MACDONALD. Her work bridges environmental humanities with policy, advocating for transformative climate pedagogy and community-led disaster responses.

Publications highlight themes like affective climate justice, multispecies ethics, and trauma-informed approaches to climate disasters. Media engagements include commentary on climate anxiety and disaster resilience in outlets like ABC Religion and Ethics and The Conversation.