Leigh Price

Editorial Review Board Member, Integration Journal

Leigh Price is a Zimbabwean-born ecophilosopher who has worked primarily in the field of environmental education. She is an Associate Professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and a Research Associate of the Environmental Learning and Research Centre, Rhodes University. She is the Editor of the Journal of Critical Realism, and was a colleague of critical realist philosopher Roy Bhaskar at the Institute of Education, University College London, where she spent time as a Research Associate. In 2007, she co-authored a book with Bhaskar and Berth Danermark entitled Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity. She has developed a philosophy for ecology that she calls “deep naturalism” and she calls for a “common-sense” approach to climate change mitigation and environmental management. Her research interests include critical realist research methodology, interdisciplinarity, environmental education, HIV education, and wellbeing. Her alma mater is the University of Zimbabwe, where she studied Biological Sciences as an undergraduate, afterwards obtaining a master’s degree in Tropical Resource Ecology, focusing on plant-insect inter-relationships and later home-garden forestry practices. She obtained her PhD in Environmental Education from Rhodes University. Her PhD thesis was a critique of environmental education in the context of business and industry.