Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career
Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Environmental/sustainability and climate change education
  • Place responsive education
  • Participatory research with young people
  • Intercultural environmental learning
  • Science education

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

About Helen Widdop Quinton

Helen Widdop Quinton, PhD, is a lecturer in science, sustainability, health and wellbeing education. She is also a Research Fellow at ISILC (Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities) at Victoria University.

Drawing on her past work as a school teacher and environmental education project manager, Helen's research focuses on identifying the connections between people and planetary wellbeing – particularly people’s interactions and relationships with place, space and nature. Her research incorporates intercultural environmental learning and links with initial teacher education.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Southern Cross University)
  • MEd (University of Melbourne)
  • PG Dip Student Welfare (University of Melbourne)
  • BSc (Monash University)

Key publications

Year Citation
2022 Lasczik, A., & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A. (220328). Arts-Based Thought Experiments for a Posthuman Earth: A Touchstones Companion BRILL.

doi: 10.1163/9789004507838
2021 Seddon, T., & Quinton, H. W. (211122). Teacher education beyond TEMAG requirements (pp. 153-174). Routledge.

doi: 10.4324/9781003170716-9

Year Citation
2020 Widdop, Quinton., Ahearn, M., Ward, K., & Carapeto, T. (200417). Resonances Knot paper in A Critical Cartography of Theory in Environmental Education: Lines, Knots and Knotting symposium round table AERA.

Year Citation
2024 Ben, Zvi., Dawson, V., Eilam, E., Gokpinar, T., Goldman, D., Naugauker, N., Eka, Putri., Subiantoro, A. W., Tolppanen, S., & White, P. (240101). Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries. International Journal of Science Education,

doi: 10.1080/09500693.2024.2314572
2023 Eka, Putri., Widdop, Quinton., & Selkrig, M. (230101). Reshaping teaching in higher education through a mandala of creative pedagogies. Teaching in Higher Education,

doi: 10.1080/13562517.2023.2193665
2023 Thomas, M., Yager, Z., & Widdop, Quinton. (230101). You need to be flexible normally, and here, even more flexible : teaching academics experiences and perceptions of Covid-19 disruptions to teaching, learning, and assessment. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 47(2), (215-228).

doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2022.2102415
2022 Thomas, M. B., Quinton, H. W., & Yager, Z. (220101). Anxious, Disconnected and Missing Out , but Oh So Convenient: Tertiary Students Perspectives of Remote Teaching and Learning with Covid-19. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 47(9), (62-79).

doi: 10.14221/ajte.2022v47n9.4
2022 Dawson, V., Eilam, E., Tolppanen, S., Assaraf, O. BZ., Gokpinar, T., Goldman, D., Putri, G. APE., Subiantoro, A. W., White, P., & Widdop, Quinton. (220101). A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula. International Journal of Science Education, 44(9), (1379-1398).

doi: 10.1080/09500693.2022.2078011
2020 Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, A., Malone, K., Lasczik, A., Quinton, H. W., & Rousell, D. (200701). Mapping-making philosophy in environmental education: Lines, knots and knotting. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 36(2), (97-104).

doi: 10.1017/aee.2020.30
2020 Widdop, Quinton., Ward, K., Ahearn, M., & Carapeto, T. (200701). Resonances: tuning into the echoes of the ecological collective. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 36(2), (169-188).

doi: 10.1017/aee.2020.25

Research funding for the past 5 years

Funding details for this researcher are currently unavailable.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the following organisations for their support and essential contributions to my research:

  • Australian Endeavour Mobility Grant (2016)

    Funding support for Master of Teaching study program in remote villages in Eastern Himalayan India.

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

Available for media queries

Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD Associate supervisor
3 PhD Principal supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (1) Associate supervisor
PhD (3) Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
1 PhD by Publication Associate supervisor
1 Masters by Research Associate supervisor
1 PhD Principal supervisor
1 PhD Associate supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD by Publication (1) Associate supervisor
Masters by Research (1) Associate supervisor
PhD (1) Principal supervisor
PhD (1) Associate supervisor

Teaching activities & experience

Helen teaches in initial teacher education undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and postgraduate community development. The units focus on:

  • science education
  • health and wellbeing education
  • research methods in education
  • community sustainability. 

Key academic roles

Dates Role Department / Organisation
Feb 2012 - Present
Environmental and science education research project officer
Southern Cross University
Dates Role & Department/Organisation
Feb 2012 -
Present
Environmental and science education research project officer
Southern Cross University

Key industry, community & government roles

Dates Role Department/Organisation
Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
Environmental Education SIG Co-Convenor
AARE
Dates Role & Department/Organisation
Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
Environmental Education SIG Co-Convenor
AARE