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Professor Laura Colucci-Gray serves as Personal Chair in Science and Sustainability Education at the University of Edinburgh's Moray House School of Education and Sport, where she joined in 2018 after 13 years at Aberdeen and Glasgow universities. A founding member of Italy's InterUniversity Research Institute for Sustainability (IRIS), she maintains active leadership roles including co-editorship of the Scottish Educational Review and board membership with One Seed Forward.
Education:
- BSc Natural Sciences with Master's dissertation in Science Education, University of Turin (1998, 110/110 cum laude)
- PhD in Science Education
Research Interests: Her work pioneers the transition from science to sustainability education through critical discourse analysis and reconfigured educational settings that integrate mind-body connections, community-place relationships, and transdisciplinary understanding. She champions STEAM education, place-based outdoor learning, and participatory methodologies grounded in contemplative ecology, visual methods, and citizen science, emphasizing social justice through arts-science collaborations and embodied cognition approaches.
Scientific Awards:
- Piedmont Regional Council Fellowship (2009)
- Higher Education Academy Travel Grant (2012)
- BERA Research Commission Award (2015)
Advising and Grants: She supervises 6 current PhD students including Daniel Woodah (indigenous climate knowledge) and Carolyn Cooke (music education identity), while previously guiding 6 graduates on topics from teacher mentoring to digital citizen science tools. Current funding includes EPSRC's £1m SENSE project (Co-I), Scottish Government's £50k Attainment Challenge (Co-I), and her £18k Food Activism project (PI), building on past successes like the BERA STEAM Commission and Aberdeen City Council's school gardens initiative.
Labs and Teams: Professor Colucci-Gray leads interdisciplinary collaborations with biological sciences researchers through projects like 'Oil to Soil' and 'Naturehood', while directing community partnerships with One Seed Forward to implement school food gardens. Her teams integrate sensorial learning, haptic pedagogy, and arts-science methodologies across Scottish regeneration areas and international contexts including Tanzania and Argentina.
