Chris's PhD thesis is titled Embodied Narratives for human-nature relation: A potential field for design. It explores fundamental conficts between cultures of modernity, contemporary environmental communications and our urgent need for long-term, pro-environmental design strategy. Chris's research is distinctly interdisciplinary, drawing from narrative theory, social-psychology, identity theory, linguistics, neuroscience and phenomenological philosophy to inform strategies for pro-environmental communication design. It explores the critical effects of multimodal, place-based communications as a catalyst for ontological changes in self-concept, arguing that cultural communications for long-term sustainable societies must seek to engage and express humanity as a socio-ecological phenomenon in which 'self' and 'environment' exist co-creatively. A qualitative case-study was conducted for this research which involved collaboration with the Australian Conservation Foundation and an Aboriginal cultural heritage project in North Western Australia.