Contact

Email

kathryn.coleman@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials

Position
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Masters (Research)
University of New South Wales
Bachelors Degree
University of New South Wales
ORCID

0000-0002-9885-9299

A/Prof Kathryn S. Coleman

Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
229 Scholarly works
1 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Original Creative Work

    Why does SWISP Lab make collage zines?
    DOI: 10.26188/32338869
  • 2026

    Original Creative Work

    Why does SWISP Lab make collage zines?
    DOI: 10.26188/32338869
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Voicing Matter / Mattering Voice: A/r/tographic Activisms for Becoming Seen and Heard
    DOI: 10.26188/32228421
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    Voicing Matter / Mattering Voice: A/r/tographic Activisms for Becoming Seen and Heard
    DOI: 10.26188/32228421.v1
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Rethinking Methodology Matters in Art and Design Education Research Through the White Cube
    DOI: 10.1111/jade.70011
  • 2022

    Research grants (international)

    Learning With the Land
  • 2020

    Book Chapter

    What Are Artists and Art Educators Teaching Us About How We Can Conceive and Deliver Teacher Professional Learning Into the Future?
Kathryn S. Coleman

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships

2025
<p><span>The nomination and </span>Platinum <span>Award celebrates the </span><strong>Visual Arts and Design Education (VAD) team</strong><span> in the Master of Teaching in the prestigious </span><strong><span><span><span>LearnX</span></span> Awards</span></strong><span> for Best Learning &amp; Development – Hybrid Learning. Recognised for innovative approaches to hybrid learning, studio practice, and authentic assessment, supported by creative collaboration with students and </span><strong><span><span><span>PebblePad</span></span></span></strong><span>. Led by </span><strong>Associate Professor Kathryn Coleman</strong><span><span> with Ana Ward-Davies, Steven Nicholls, and Yvette Walker, the team demonstrates FoE’s national and international leadership. </span></span></p> PebblePad/LearnX
2025
<p><strong>Tipping Point Stories (2024)</strong> was recognised with the CHASS Distinctive Works Prize for its insistence on expanding what climate research can be, and who it can be for. The SWISP Lab project (A/Prof Kathryn Coleman, Dr Sacha Healy, Dr Angela Molloy Murphy, Kriti Aggarwal, Cassandra Truong and Prof Eri Saikawa) centred young people’s 100-word climate moments and treated them not as illustrative anecdotes, but as research in their own right—becoming data, artworks, zines, badges, collages, performances, and a public exhibition, culminating in a side event at COP29 in Baku.</p> <p>The prize committee noted the project’s distinctive methodological and expressive hybridity, recognising storytelling as method, as output, and as public intervention. Youth voices from Australia, India, the United States, and beyond travelled into a global climate decision-making arena, reframing what counts as knowledge in the Anthropocene and unsettling conventional hierarchies of expertise.</p> <p>The prize affirms the care, experimentation, and courage guiding the work: intergenerational, intercultural, and grounded in the urgencies young people continue to name. It also reflects the project’s ongoing reach and resonance as Tipping Point Stories moves through classrooms, universities, communities, and onward into COP30.</p> Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS)
2024
2024 InSEA Award for Excellence in Praxis in Education through Art InSEA
2023
2023 MGSE Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation, MGSE (Team Award) Faculty of Education, The University of Melbourne

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Presentation

    Hacking the Anthropocene: Learning with the Land as a/r/tographic praxis
    DOI: 10.26188/30600914.v1
  • 2025

    Presentation

    Hacking the Anthropocene: Learning with the Land as a/r/tographic praxis
    DOI: 10.26188/30600914
  • 2025

    Other

    SWISP Lab Learning Resource Pack: Distraction Exhibition, Science Gallery Melbourne (2025–2026)
    DOI: 10.26188/30434773.v1
  • 2025

    Composition

    Learning through Distraction: Creative Climate Pedagogies in the Global South
  • 2025

    Other

    SWISP Lab Learning Resource Pack: Distraction Exhibition, Science Gallery Melbourne (2025–2026)
    DOI: 10.26188/30434773