Margaret Somerville

Margaret Somerville is Professor of Education (Learning and Development) and Research Leader at the Monash University Gippsland Campus. 

She has four children and has lived in many different Australian landscapes from inner city Sydney to the remote Tanamai desert. Her passion for landscape has been expressed in her book Body Landscape Journals, and she has worked over many years on several major collaborative research projects with Aboriginal women including Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs with Patsy Cohen, and The Sun Dancin’ with four Aboriginal women from Coonabarabran.