ecological emotions research lab
an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the University of Sydney
led by Assocate Professor Paul Rhodes and Dr James Dunk
"Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond."
Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass
“What yearns to be big in us, to be vast beyond reckoning, is the adventure of self-discovery. The larger that grows, the more lightly human society will rest upon the Earth.”
Theodore Roszak, in Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society
Our researchers
Research themes
Eco-Psychology: Retrospect/Prospect
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Theorising ecolological affect
Place-based research methodologies
Community-based climate emotion initiatives
Youth-led co-design
"Psychology as a science has focused on internal landscapes at the expense of external ones, a fact that becomes increasingly problematic as we struggle to accept and respond to the climate crisis and its psychoterratic sequelae"
Johanna L. Degen, Paul Rhodes, Scott Simpson, and Rosanne Quinnell, writing in Human Arenas
"The good news is that we’ll have plenty of help; we are surrounded by geniuses. They are everywhere with us, breathing the same air, drinking the same round river of water, moving on limbs built from the same blood and bone. Learning from them will take only stillness on our part, a quieting of the voices of our own cleverness. Into this quiet will come a cacophony of earthly sounds, a symphony of good sense."
Janine Benyus in Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Drawn from We Al-li, Wayapa Wuurrk, Psychology for a Safe Climate, Relationships Australia, the Black Dog Institute, and the Sydney Environment Institute and School of Psychology at the University of Sydney.
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Sally Gillespie
Facilitator, Psychology for a Safe Climate
Jordan Koder
Youth Mental Health Advocate, headspace
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