DrJuliet Bennett

Dr Juliet Bennett is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies(SCHS), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Charles Perkins Centre(CPC), at The University of Sydney. Juliet’s research draws connections across scales and subjects to activate co-creative and systemic interventions for personal and planetary wellbeing. She is currently working on SCHS and CPC’s joint research program on the social life of food and nourishment applying critical social theory to systems of food production and consumption.

Juliet’s doctoral research developed a new inroad to process philosophy and a tool for to assist in its application for sustainable futures. This thesis showed how nesting “static thinking” within “process thinking” connects relational worldviews, contextual economics, and participatory politics, which together help to mitigate the global systemic crisis (with global inequality and climate change its most urgent symptoms).

Juliet also has an MPhil and MA in peace and conflict studies, through which she explored structural violence with a focus on themes of narratives, religion and education. Juliet has taught undergraduate units in narratives and peace studies at Lenoir Rhyne University in North Carolina, and postgraduate units in peace and conflict studies at The University of Sydney.

Prior to joining SCHS, Juliet worked at Sydney Policy Lab as Collaborative Research Manager, applying community-led research and policymaking methods for improved social outcomes. Juliet also spent five years as Executive Officer and Acting Director of Sydney Peace Foundation organising the annual Sydney Peace Prize. These experiences have encouraged Juliet to connect traditional academic research with applied policy research, and communicate findings for diverse audiences.