Dr Joanne Peers

Dr Joanne Peers is a Researcher at the Origins Centre at The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Joanne is the Education Strategy Lead at Nature Environment Wildlife Filmmakers (NEWF), an African NPO.  She is the awardee of a seed grant in the Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change (ESCC) project at The Vrije University of Amsterdam. Joanne holds a PhD from The University of Oulu in Finland in Environmental Humanities and Education Research. Her dissertation focussed on relationality in environmental education and research through thinking with bodies, water, time, memory and spirituality. Joanne has over twenty years experience in education in both early years and higher education. Her interest in justice and activism brings watery ways of relating to oceans, land and communities. Working hydropoetically as an artist, educator and researcher participating in relational ways allows Joanne to approach issues of care, ethics and environmental justice through transdisciplinary modalities.