Dr Hannah Feldman
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About
Hannah is an Institute for Water Futures Research Fellow at the School of Cybernetics.
She comes to the Institute and School with an interdisciplinary background that traverses an undergraduate and honours in astrophysics at Curtin University, through to a Masters of Science Communication at the ANU. Hannah has also spent many years of travelling Australia, running a heap of tech and design programs with high schools and teachers, in between.
Her PhD research investigated how young people engage with a changing climate through political action. Specifically, Hannah’s latest projects investigated how and why teenagers end up forming events such as #climatestrike, and what happens when politicians tell them to “go back to school”…
As the Institute for Water Futures Research Fellow, Hannah brings all these pathways together, continuing to work with young people on how their experiences of the environment cross over with an ever-evolving relationship with technology.
I believe it is critical to incorporate future generations and inheritors of our decision-making into any and all of our futures research. The IWF presents an exciting and unique opportunity to do just that.
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Research interests
With my focus on young people's environmental engagement, I am excited to bring research with Generation Z to the fore at the Institute, where future voices are valued, heard and amplified. Being a part of the IWF is an amazing opportunity to incorporate long term decision making with future decision makers in mind. In 50 years, or even by 2050, present-day teens and school aged people will be in positions of decision making across policy, industry and academia; it’s crucial that young voices are considered today, so that the proverbial baton-change is as smooth as can be, tomorrow.
Projects
- Cybernetic Water Stories, Principal investigator