Ms Cathy Hammond

My educative background includes working in the schooling sector as a teacher, curriculum advisor, deputy principal and principal in both city and country schools. I have worked as an education consultant for numerous authorities including: Department of Education and Children's Services, University of South Australia, Australian Education Teachers Union. My appointment as lecturer in society and environment at the University of South Australia has enabled me to live my passion of constructing environments that challenge and enable us to live together as a collective in socially just and ethical ways.

• Culture, society and the environment
• Integrated curriculum; particularly interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning
• Social and environmental sustainability

Global Education Centre Management Committee

Doctor of Philosophy (in progress), University of South Australia. This interdisciplinary study, focussing on social sustainability and academic work is seeking to explore the multiple meanings of the term social sustainability as it is interpreted in contemporary academic work.

Master of Social Science (Counselling), University of South Australia. Feminine psychology and relational learning, focussing on Women’s Empowerment through Friendship in their Middle Years

Bachelor of Education, Curriculum Development

Diploma of Teaching

• Social sustainability and changing work environments. How do we, as a collective, work toward achieving professional wellbeing for this and future generations?
• Socially sustainable communities of practice
• Interdisciplinary curriculum constructions in higher education

Hammond, C. and McCallum, F. (2009) Interdisciplinarity: Bridging the University and Field of Practice Divide. Australian Journal of Teacher Education Vol.34, (2), March.

Hammond, C. & Churchman, D. (2008) Sustaining academic life: A case for applying principles of social sustainability to the academic profession. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education Vol.9 No. 3 pp. 235-245.

Hammond, C. & McCallum, F. (2007) "It’s like society and environment is the cake and you’re not allowed to have it yet, you’ve got to have your peas and beans first”: preparing early graduates as teachers of Society & Environment. Australian Association of Research in Education Conference, December 2007, Fremantle

McCallum, F., Hammond, C. (2006) Connecting Pedagogies and Learning. Australian Association of Research in Education Conference, December 2006, Adelaide

Hammond, C., Lucas, B., McCallum, F., Paige, K. (2006) Principled Pedagogy: An integrated Approach in Teacher Education. Third International Middle Years of Schooling Conference, August 2006, Adelaide, Australia