Rate My Professor Rosie Welch

Dr. Rosie Welch is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, within the School of Education Culture and Society. Her research investigates the socio-cultural and material complexities of health across school, teacher education, institutional, government, cultural, and community settings. Drawing from design, sociology, cultural studies, and education, she develops critical and creative responses to social challenges, encompassing public pedagogy, media, curriculum, Indigenous-settler relations, gardens, and places of learning in relation to health, food studies, wellbeing, and the environment. In recent years, she has emphasized the role of gardens and plants in learning, leading the Faculty of Education research group Plants, Place and Pedagogy. She has edited collections on environmental attunement in health education and contributed to state, national, and international sociological, curriculum, health, and educational projects. Welch is a member of the Learning with New Media research group, the Health, Sport and Physical Education research group, and the Transforming Initial Teacher Education Research Group. She serves on the Monash Human Research Ethics Committee and the editorial board of Sport, Education and Society.

Prior to Monash, Welch conducted teaching and research in health education, youth transitions, social geography, sexuality education, and educational sociology at the University of Wollongong and the University of Sydney. She worked as a secondary teacher and primary Health and Physical Education specialist, taught creative movement and yoga in youth and community settings, and held cultural and social planning roles in local government. Key publications include 'Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education' (2023, Sport, Education and Society), 'What’s the use of educational research? Six stories reflecting on research use with communities' (2024, The Australian Educational Researcher), 'Evaluation of a Pilot Radical Care Kit: Report for Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation' (2024), and 'Beyond colonial-capitalist logics: reimagining the aims of education through degrowth and reviving the commons' (2026, Ethics and Education). She has received the Emerald Health Education Journal Outstanding Paper Award (2019), recognition for the Kids Co-designing Healthy and Sustainable Environments resource toolkit short-listed for World Health Organization NCD Lab initiatives (2020), and the Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award for Community Education Programs (2023).