Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Chloe Watfern is a maker and researcher with a longstanding interest in ecological emotions, climate distress, and human-nature connections. She is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Ecological Emotions Research Lab at the University of Sydney. She is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Black Dog Institute, where she leads the Climate Lab.

Chloe is committed to climate justice, and her work with neurodivergent and disabled collaborators has led to a monograph with Routledge and a socially engaged art exhibition at Manly Art Gallery and Museum. In other projects, she has used the arts-based method of body mapping to explore ecological emotions with young families. As a collage artist, she encourages her two young children to scribble and play with her growing archive of materials, and she uses their art in much of her recent work. Mothering in the climate crisis is a source of constant anguish and motivation.

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