Margaret Somerville

Margaret Somerville is Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Educational Research, University of Western Sydney. Drawing on a long history of collaborative research with Australian Aboriginal communities about relationship to place, she is interested in how we can learn different stories for wellbeing of the planet.  Her recent book Water in a Dry Land (Routledge, 2013) explores alternative stories of water with Aboriginal artists in the Murray Darling Basin and Children, Place and Sustainability (Somerville & Green, Palgrave, 2015) views the world through stories from children of the Anthropocene. Her local riverlands is a current preoccupation from her daily walks in an urban commons and with the river she asks: How can I bring the riverlands to you, smell of wild fennel in sun after rain, tinkle of bellbirds, rise and fall of cicada call, and clip clop of gumboots through wet of last nights dew?