Rate My Professor Sue Elliott

Currently an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the University of New England, her research specializations include design, play, and pedagogy in outdoor learning environments, nature-based playspaces, Australian adaptations of forest preschool approaches, education for sustainability in early childhood from systems and critical theory perspectives, action research methodologies, and mosaic methodology for engaging children in research. Key publications encompass books such as Early Years Learning in Australian Natural Environments (2021, co-authored), Researching Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Challenging Assumptions and Orthodoxies (2020, editor), Outdoor Learning Environments (2017, editor), and Sustainability and the Early Years Learning Framework (2014). She has received the Early Childhood Australia Doctoral Thesis Award (2014), life memberships from the Victorian Association for Environmental Education (1993) and Play Australia (2017), and the Australian Association for Environmental Education Fellowship (2023). Elliott contributes through keynote lectures, workshops, consultancies, committee roles including Co-Convenor of Transnational Dialogues in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability Research, and editorial positions such as Field Report Editor for Children, Youth and Environments.