Alan Reid is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, Monash University.

He edits Environmental Education Research, and leads the Education, Environment and Sustainability  Research Group.

Until 2012, he worked at the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, University of Bath.

He is active in a range of environmental education research activities and networks, primarily in Europe, North America and Australasia. These include the Global Environmental Education Partnership and a wide range of special interest groups, networks and events in the field, e.g. the World Environmental Education Congress.

Alan's research interests focus on teachers' thinking and practice in environmental education, and traditions, capacities and issues in environmental education theory, research and policy. 

Alan's teaching commitments and interests principally focus on environmental and sustainability education, and research approaches and professional inquiry in education. Recent work includes a focus on climate change education, and education and the Sustainable Development Goals, e.g. Mission 4.7.

He is also an associate editor of Journal of Curriculum Studies.

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Awards include:

Innovation in Teaching and Learning Award Academic Prize, University of Bath (2002)

Knowledge Transfer Champion, University of Bath (2010)

Outstanding Contributions to Research in Environmental Education Award, North American Association for Environmental Education (2015)

• the philosophy, practice and development of environmental and sustainability education
• principles, programmes and cultures of educational research
• teachers' thinking and beliefs and their relation to curriculum design and knowledge