Kathryn Riley

Kathryn Riley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Education. With a PhD from Deakin University (2019), her work spans Physical Education, Environmental Education, and Climate Change Education across Australia, the UK, and Canada.

• Focuses on posthumanist and new materialist scholarship
• Advances anticolonial praxis through relational pedagogies
• Co-creates Indigenous physical literacy initiatives
• Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education

Her research explores place-based environmental education, transdisciplinary curriculum design, and teacher/learner identities through the lens of Land/Country/Place relationships. Publications demonstrate a consistent focus on decolonizing pedagogies, multispecies ontologies, and creative research methodologies.

Kathryn's recent work reveals trends in:

• Intersections of physical literacy and sustainability
• Eco-anxiety and hopeful pedagogies
• Art-based research creation
• Indigenous relational worldviews
• Postqualitative methodologies
• Reimagining education in the Anthropocene