Global and local intersects – ECEfS in Australia

Sue Elliott is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the University of New England (UNE), New South Wales, Armidale and a visiting scholar at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Sue is a long-term early childhood education for sustainability advocate, researcher and author. She co-convenes the TransNational Dialogues in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability research group and the European Early Childhood Research Association Sustainability SIG. She was lead editor for the publication Researching early childhood education for sustainability: Challenging assumptions and orthodoxies (Elliott et al., 2020) and co-authored Early Childhood Australia Essentials: Sustainability in early childhood (Elliott & Davis, 2023). Sue was awarded the 2023 Fellowship of the Australian Association for Environmental Education to recognise her decades of advocacy work promoting sustainable futures for young children across the early childhood education sector.