Dr Tricia Seow is a geography educator and geography education researcher. Her research interests include sustainability and environmental education where she has actively focused on place-based and inquiry-based learning to motivate interest in and care for the environment. She also extends her research expertise to develop experiential and transformational learning programmes with partner organisations to support awareness of sustainability issues and to trigger behavioural change.

Dr Seow currently serves as an Assistant Head of the Humanities and Social Studies Academic Group (HSSE) and is co-chair of the Sustainability Learning Lab at NIE. She is also Programme Leader for HSSE's Professional Development programmes.

Dr Seow is an active member of the geography and teaching fraternity. She has served on numerous syllabus and examination committees for the Ministry of Education (MOE), and is a longstanding Steering Committee Member of the Talent Development Programme with the Humanities Branch of MOE. She is a Core Team member of the Geography Subject Chapter, Academy of Singapore Teachers. Currently Dr Seow is the Secretary for the International Geography Union Commission for Geographical Education, the Honorary-General Secretary of the Southeast Asian Geography Association, and Associate Editor for the International Journal for Geographical and Environmental Education.

Dr Seow has wide-ranging teaching experience. In her current capacity at NIE, she teaches across all programmes - pre-service programmes covering both geographical content courses and pedagogy courses, through to higher degree and in-service courses. She has developed and sustained train-the-trainer sustainability education workshops in the ASEAN region, working with local government agencies, universities, and NGOs in Brunei, Cambodia and Vietnam, for example.