Dr Kim Gordon is a versatile and experienced transdisciplinary researcher who works at the interface of research, policy and practice. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney in environmental humanities and a masters in culturally sustainable development from the Australian National University. Kim considers herself a ‘pracademic’ who combines creative intelligence with practical project implementation. Throughout her varied career across the Pacific, Asia, Europe and Australia, Kim has worked as a research consultant and partnerships manager developing cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaborations in fields as diverse as climate adaptation, circular economy, public health, research impact, Indigenous knowledges, cultural heritage and environmental management. 

She recently worked at RMIT University in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia as a research partnerships manager and research associate in a multidisciplinary team co-designing Nature-based Solutions for climate change and disaster resilience in the Solomon Islands. 

She teaches a subject on Literature and Environment at RMIT, exploring the role of literature, arts and culture in producing and critiquing entanglements between the human and nonhuman in the context of climate change.

Kim has recently returned to research, undertaking a masters in gender studies and intersectionality at Linkoping University in Sweden. Her current research interests focus on race, identity and belonging in transnational histories of migration, particularly mixed-race/multiracial experiences, drawing on theories from the feminist posthumanities and new materialisms to explore the affective and embodied dimensions of experiences of racialization. In her spare time, she pursues her long standing interests in fantasy, science fiction and speculative fiction, combining genre theory with ecofeminist philosophy and the history of western Romanticism.