Rate My Professor Kate Coleman

Coleman's research centers on arts-based educational inquiry, exploring community, creativity, identity, digital creativities, speculative a/r/tography, and pedagogical responses to climate collapse. She co-leads the Speculative Wanderings in Space and Place (SWISP) Lab with Dr Sarah Healy, an interdisciplinary living lab addressing complex futures through co-creation with young people. As Co-Director of the Melbourne UNESCO Observatory of Arts Education and UNTWIN’s Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development, she fosters international collaborations for innovation in social understanding and tolerance. Coleman serves as Chief Investigator on the SSHRC-funded ‘Learning with the Land’ project and is Principal Contact for the Journal of Artistic and Creative Education. Her publications include the edited volume Learning Through Art: Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries (InSEA, 2025), with chapter contributions such as ‘Position/ing – imaginary menagerie: Speculative a/r/tographies for the long now’ (2025); ‘Mapping the Nomadic Journey of Becoming in Digital Portfolios: Digital wayfinding in art education’ (2018); and TAP to TAP2: Research Report (2017). In 2023, she received the MGSE Award for Excellence in Graduate Researcher Supervision, shared with colleagues. Her work influences digital scholarship, arts pedagogies, and speculative practices in education amid environmental challenges.