[11] When the Curriculum Development Centre was disbanded in 1982[12] Gough took up the position of Director of Environmental Education in the Australian Department of Home Affairs and Environment (1983–1987).
[14] While at Deakin she completed her PhD[15] and made significant contributions to the field through her roles as managing editor of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education (1998–2002), and other organisations.
Gough elaborates upon the early formation of the central associated issues, examining the processes that have moved towards international and national consensus.
It is this background that positions the significance of her research as an imperative beyond the 1990's [and] questions the domination of Anglo-American English speaking hegemony and the androcentric paradigms which have driven the agenda in environmental education to date”.
As John Weaver wrote, “Annette Gough’s personal accounting of reshaping her body and identity as she becomes posthuman demonstrates a new path for curriculum studies scholars and autobiography”.