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Dr Kate Neale
B Bus / LLB. PhD

Dr Kate Neale

Researcher

Therapeutic Horticulture | Childhood Studies | Disability Studies | Research Ethics

University Educator

Evaluation of Occupational Therapy Programs | Health Promotion | Research for Social Work (Masters) | Literature Review (Honours) | Knowledge Translation (Honours)

Affiliations

  • Therapeutic Horticulture Australia (Full Member + Past Vice President).
  • Queer Ally.
  • Working with Vulnerable Populations Statement of Attainment.
  • Resilience First Responder Certified.
  • AIATSIS Code of Ethics – completed.
  • Working With Children Check NSW

Kate is a therapeutic horticulture researcher, consultant and program developer who explores the benefits of time spent gardening and in greenspaces on recovery, wellbeing and belonging. She has a particular interest in how gardening and greenspaces can challenge the dominant narratives and assumptions regarding vulnerable or priority populations. With a commitment to dismantling deficiency-based labels that often continue to stigmatise participants, her work champions opportunities to promote the valuable and meaningful contributions people can make in their own lives, their communities and in society more broadly.  Her work is co-designed, methodologically ethical, person-focused, strengths-based, trauma-informed, inclusive and rights-focused.

Acknowledgement of Country

I wish to acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands across this country we call Australia and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. I live on Bundjalung Country of the Arakwal People. I am privileged to work across many countries including Eora, Biripi, Bundjalung, Wiradjuri, Barkindji and Kulin.

These are, and always will be Aboriginal Lands.

I also acknowledge my responsibility to better embed Indigenous traditional knowledge within the field of Therapeutic Horticulture, to decolonise predominant theories used in the field, to remain aware of and challenge learned and subconscious racism, and to privilege the voices of Indigenous traditional Elders and their communities within my projects.

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