Rate My Professor Sarah Crinall

Dr Crinall's academic interests focus on science childhoods, place-based relational philosophies of education, and art-based methodologies. She explores the power of the practical, the ethical, and the 'everyday' in informal learning ecologies that families and communities inhabit, with emphasis on sustenance in education, particularly during early years motherhood. Her scholarship contributes to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and is part of the Sustainability, Environment, and the Arts in Education (SEAE) Research Cluster at Southern Cross University. Notable publications include her monograph 'Sustaining Childhood Natures: The Art of Becoming with Water' (Springer, 2019); 'Growing communities in a garden undone: worldly justice, sustenance and children otherwise' (Genealogy, 2020, with Simone M. Blom); 'A place with no time: re-conceptualising child–adult relations during "homeschooling" in the 2020 pandemic' (Children's Geographies, 2020, with Edith Rowbottom, Xanthia Blom, and Simone Blom); 'Disruptions of Post-Qualitative Education Research: Tensions and Openings' (Qualitative Inquiry, 2022, with Tracy Young and Karen Malone); 'Academia's Breath: Oxygenating Academia One Creative, Embodied Breath at a Time' (SOTL in the South, 2023); 'Earth's Love Letters: Locating loving pedagogies' (Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2025, with Nicholas R.G. Stanger); and 'Heartwork: doing early childhood initial teacher education differently' (Qualitative Research Journal, 2026). According to Google Scholar, her work has been cited 175 times, with research interests spanning place, philosophy, post-qualitative approaches, science, and arts.