Dr Tania Leimbach

Tania Leimbach is an education-focused academic who bridges teaching, research and practice within the broad field of environmental studies. A member of the Environment & Society Group at UNSW, she is Program Convenor for the Master of Environmental Management (MEM), a program focused on preparing future change-makers to rethink the world through restorative approaches. Convening several courses in the program, her teaching consistently engages students with socio-ecological challenges as historically and culturally situated. With a strong profile in climate change pedagogy, Tania has designed and led curriculum in climate change education that is now used across universities, secondary schools and local government settings. Her teaching and research focus on inclusive, creative and action-oriented approaches that support learners and educators to engage meaningfully with climate and environmental challenges.

Tania’s research sits at the intersection of environmental humanities, ecocultural studies and environmental education. She contributes to inter- and transdisciplinary scholarship exploring affect, agency, and justice in human and more-than-human worlds. Her PhD thesis, Sustainability and the Material Imagination in Australian Cultural Organisations, examined how museums and contemporary cultural institutions enact environmental leadership amid the political and material complexities of the Anthropocene. 

Based at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney, Tania completed her PhD in an environment focused on applied, project-based sustainability research. This strengthened her systems-based understanding of sustainability challenges across areas including renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, food security, circular economy and social justice. Alongside her academic work, Tania has collaborated on research and consultancy projects with local government, industry partners, the regenerative agriculture organisation Soils for Life, and the Indigenous-led social enterprise Old Ways, New. An experienced social researcher, she works with qualitative methods including ethnography, case studies, focus groups, program monitoring and evaluation, and social impact assessment.