My PhD research, ¡®Exploring children¡¯s rights to participation and the geographies of meaning-making in the sixth mass extinction¡¯ explores children¡¯s participation rights in the current climate crisis and sixth mass extinction of species.
Through co-created research activities and material, interspecies experiences, I consider children¡¯s meaning-making in situ and their participation in biodiversity loss responses. This draws together interdisciplinary perspectives on children¡¯s rights, interspecies nature, and educational responses to biodiversity loss that promote eco-social wellbeing.
I am a child rights and participation specialist with Scotland¡¯s Children¡¯s Parliament, where I lead environmental projects, including facilitating child participation in Scottish Government¡¯s Learning for Sustainability Leadership Group (2021-ongoing) and national engagement between children and decision-makers for COP26 and Scotland¡¯s Climate Assembly, the first climate citizens¡¯ assembly in the world to include children (2021).
Children's geographies
Children¡¯s Rights
Eco-feminism
Politics and geographies of nature and childhood
Education and curriculum-making
Political ecology
Indigenous knowledges
Posthumanism
Environmental politics
Priestley M, Schuler B, Georgescu S, Mouroutsou S, Priestley A, Rushton E, Smith J, Duggan B, Morris F & Sinnema C (2025) Curriculum and assessment design and pedagogy in the Curriculum for Wales: a qualitative study. Welsh Government. Cardiff: Welsh Government. https://www.gov.wales/curriculum-and-assessment-design-and-pedagogy-curriculum-wales-qualitative-study