Skate, Create, Educate and Regenerate (SkateCER) Lab. Seeing the city and public space differently through skateboarding and other urban and creative sports.

The Skate, Create, Educate and Regenerate (SkateCER) Lab considers how skating and other creative sports and subcultures contribute to playful, healthy, creative, sustainable and socially inclusive cities.

SkateCER combines research expertise and community knowledge to co-create inclusive skate spaces, social programs, events and more through research, creativity, education and environmentally aware outcomes. Explore our website to get to know some of our flagship projects, key supporters and partners, including from the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre at The University of Sydney (currently ranked the 2nd highest university in Australia and 1st in NSW).

SkateCER is created and led by Dr Indigo Willing at SSSHARC at The University of Sydney. Her expertise reflects over ten years of working with individuals and groups from diverse communities, industry and research backgrounds on award winning campaigns to grant projects funded by high profile institutions including Skate Australia to the Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme.

A core part SkateCER is how we create bridges between a range of experiences and perspectives in creative scenes, local communities, sociology, public art, design, performance and architecture. We are also passionate about bringing emerging leaders and over-looked populations into welcoming spaces to gain industry presence and career-building insights, as well as platforms to share how they ‘skate, create, educate and regenerate’ together. Equity for diverse genders and sexualities is also at the forefront of our goals and aims.


We are on Dharug Gadigal Country