Rate My Professor Marianne Logan

Dr Marianne Logan is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Graduate Diploma in Education (GradDipEd) from the University of New England, and a PhD from Southern Cross University. With over a decade of experience in early childhood settings and teaching science at primary and secondary levels, she has forged strong partnerships with regional schools near SCU campuses. Logan pioneered the school-based delivery of science and technology education in the Faculty of Education, embedding learning in authentic school contexts where schools serve as essential partners in teacher education and preparing STEM-capable teachers. As a founding member of the Sustainability, Environment and Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Centre, she passionately inspires learners in science, sustainability, and the environment while amplifying their voices.

Her research advances socioecology and posthumanism within science education, challenging conventional approaches during the climate crisis. Adopting a posthuman perspective, she views humans as entangled with nature, highlighting human influences on Earth's systems. Key interests include school-university partnerships in teacher education, students' attitudes and interest in science, child- and youth-led arts-based research on sustainability, science, and environment, child-framed methodologies, posthumanism, and science-sustainability intersections. Logan has successfully supervised PhD, Honours, and Doctor of Education candidates and continues to do so. Notable publications include 'Engaging students in science across the primary-secondary interface: Listening to the students’ voice' (2008, Research in Science Education), 'The impact of teachers and their science teaching on students’ science interest: A four-year study' (2013, International Journal of Science Education), 'Planting food sustainability thinking and practice through STEM in the garden' (2022, International Journal of Technology and Design Education), 'Touchstones for deterritorializing socioecological learning: The anthropocene, posthumanism and common worlds as creative milieux' (2019), and 'Shimmering with Deborah Rose: Posthuman theory-making with feminist ecophilosophers and social ecologists' (2020, Australian Journal of Environmental Education). Her contributions align with UN Sustainable Development Goals.