Senior Programme Manager, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Allison Edwards is a Senior Programme Manager with the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand team at Centre for Public Impact.
She joined the CPI team in 2022.
Allison holds a Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Design from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, British Colombia, and a PhD in Design from Monash University in Melbourne.
She delights in creating materially rich and collaborative ways of coming together to learn, empathise, and imagine otherwise. Her doctoral research illustrated the importance of playful and hands-on approaches in problem solving and learning experiences, and instilled a passion for transformative learning which now informs her design and facilitation as a Senior Program Manager with CPI.
With experience and training in diverse practices from Design Thinking, deep democracy, adaptive leadership, and critical co-design, she interweaves approaches and methodologies to create learning experiences that engage and inspire. Her biggest question at the moment is exploring how we might create more spaces for affirming, thoughtful, and generative conversations that help us be in better relationship with ourselves, each other, and the natural world around us.
You can read some of Alli’s published research below or find her on Medium.
Some of Alli’s works include:
- PlayTank Collective; Mayes E., Healy S., Flynn, A., Edwards A. 2022. ‘Anarchiving Assemblages at Play: learning bodies and sympogogies’ in Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry Vol 14, No 1, 2022.
- Korsmeyer, H. and Edwards, A., 2018. ‘Tangible Thinking: the impact value of oblique co-design & tacit knowledge’.
- Bawden, G. and Edwards, A., 2018. ‘Pride of Place: Co-design, community engagement and the Victorian Pride Centre.’ Fusion Journal, (13), pp.43-63.
- Edwards, A. and Korsmeyer, H., 2017. ‘Communication with Self, with Others, and with Futures: Making Artefacts in Design Thinking Workshops’. LEA-Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente, 6, pp.157-176.