Enactive Cognition & Narrative Practices Research Group

The University of Wollongong, UOW, is known worldwide for its ground-breaking signature lines of research on enactive cognition and narrative practices. The core of our tightly-focused research group, comprises an extraordinarily well-connected, world-class senior researchers and highly productive, up-and-coming researchers.

We have fostered strong cross-institutional relations with other world-class researchers working on these topics in the New South Wales region. Our researchers are a major presence at national events such as the conference hosted by the newly launched Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology. This has helped to establish “Eastern Australia as the place to be for those looking to develop this approach to the mind” (ARC detailed assessor).

Within Oceania, our team is regularly lauded as the “Australasian leader in enactivist philosophy of mind” by Australian Research Council, ARC, detailed assessors. Indeed, a recent ARC report proposes that choice additions to our existing team would make our university “one of the world's leading centres for research into embodied/enactive approaches to cognition … arguably *the* leading centre for this approach”.