event
Roundtable on Relational Research Methods in the Face of Climate Crises
Tickets
May 26, 2025
8am–5pm Mountain Time
Hybrid
On-site Information
University of Alberta
Education South, Room 122
Online Information
A Zoom link will be sent to registrants
Overview
Mainstream education and education research is complicit in the ongoing climate crisis due to its foundations in Western extractivist modernity. Drawing on the work of Escobar (2018) in Designs for the Pluriverse, we recognize how research design—in keeping with other forms of design—has historically contributed to the very extractivist processes that have led to our current climate crisis, often eliding questions of class, gender, race, and coloniality through a universalizing impetus. Considering these realities, we see a need for education research to instead engage with relational ontologies defined by connection to land and nature, which may offer other ways of relating to and with land and one another.
Join a variety of scholars in discussing possibilities for relational educational research methods. We encourage participation for the full day, but attending individual sessions is also fine.
This event is supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant and hosted by Dr. Carrie Karsgaard at Cape Breton University and Dr. Lynette Shultz at the University of Alberta.
agenda
all times mountain time
8:00 am
doors open – registration
University of Alberta
Education South
Room 122
8:15 am – 8:30 am
welcome and coffee
Carrie Karsgaard, Cape Breton University
8:30 am – 9:10 am
session 1
“Another World is (Im)possible)”: The Neuro-Affective Turn and its Implications for Educational Research in the Context of the Climate Crisis
Audrey Bryan, Dublin City University
9:10 am – 9:50 am
session 2
Connecting Creative, Relational and Decolonial Methods in Climate Crisis Education
Su-Ming Khoo, University of Galway
9:50 am – 10:30 am
session 3
Deradicalizing Climate Denial: Gender, Education, and Climate Justice in the Global North
Joseph Henderson, University of Vermon
David Long, Morehead State University
Jonas Lysgaard, Aarhus University
Antti Rajala, University of Neuchâtel
10:30 am – 10:45 am
break
10:45 am – 11:25 am
session 4
Walking as Relational Research Method
Sheena Wilson, University of Alberta
Rachel Epp Buller, Bethel College
11:25 am – 12:05 p.m
session 5
Against Extractive Research: Collective Biography as a Method of Relation and Refusal
Iveta Silova, Arizona State University
Victoria Desimoni, Arizona State University
Dilraba Anayatova, Arizona State University
12:05 pm – 1:00 pm
lunch
1:00 pm – 1:40 pm
session 6
Green School Participatory Budgeting as Relational Democratic Praxis: Student Voice, Climate Action and Educational Transformation
Tara Bartlett, Arizona State University
1:40 pm – 2:20 pm
session 7
Relational Methodologies or Relatable Methods? Toward An Ecofeminist Research Practice
Rezvaneh Erfani, University of Alberta
2:20 pm – 2:35 pm
break
2:35 pm – 3:15 pm
session 8
Research as Solidarity in the Face of the Climate Crisis: A Presentation About Research for the Frontlines
Jen Gobby, Research for the Front Lines
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
session 9
Curriculum as Cultural Work: Embedding Climate Justice Within Municipal Learning
Carol Bomfim, University of Alberta
Muskrats and River Lots: Relational Uses of Decolonial, Participatory, and Embodied Mapping
Danika Jorgensen-Skakum, University of Alberta
Beyond Mapping: AI-Driven GIS as a Relational Method in Climate Change Education
Noon Hussein, University of Alberta
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
discussion & wrap-up
Carrie Karsgaard, Cape Breton University
Lynette Shultz, University of Alberta
