Elizabeth Allotta
is a doctoral student in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. She has over fifteen years’ experience as a high school teacher with particular interests in science and STEM education. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the experiences and challenges of continuing teachers in the ever-changing world of education. She is also a member of a research group exploring the experiences of doctoral students. She has authored a number of texts and education resources for high school students, and co-authored academic papers related to nutrition and physiology in a past life. She has contributed to a recently published book on doing rebellious research in and beyond the academy.
Laura Emily Clark
is a Japanese studies scholar who specialises in contemporary Japanese literature, popular culture, and gender. She received her doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2020 for her doctoral research on contemporary Japanese gender ideals in the fictional writing of Murakami Haruki. She spent 2020 at Showa Women’s University in Tokyo as a recipient of the Mariko Bando Fellowship researching Japanese women’s contemporary fiction and discourses of normality. Laura teaches Japanese and Asian popular culture at various Australian universities.
Maria Ejlertsen
is an educational researcher with a focus on inclusive and just schooling, post-humanist and Indigenous scholarship, and collaborative methodologies. Her doctoral studies at the University of Queensland’s School of Education focused on negotiations of student belonging in a school for marginalised students. She has a particular interest in the role of animal-human relationships, identity formation processes, sustainable futures, and building bridges between educational disciplines and sectors. She was born and raised in Denmark and has lived and worked in Kenya and Australia for eight years each. The latter included working in schools as a science teacher, learning support teacher, and teacher aide. She has also worked in government as an educational and research officer. Maria is currently residing in New York, USA and commenced in a post-doctoral position at Cornell University in 2022.
Daeul Jeong
is a former non-governmental organisation (NGO) worker who coordinated an ethnic minority teacher training project in Laos, Thailand. She recently
Solange Macedo Lima
is a public professional education activist in Fortaleza, Brazil. As part of her doctoral research study at the University in Queensland, she led a project integrating technology into secondary teaching at a public professional high school in Fortaleza and established partnerships with public and private universities. While writing about her experience, she was accepted as a visiting student at Stanford University and became a Lemann Fellow (a private social organisation with a focus in education). Her research interests are experiential learning, lifelong learning, and alternative education incorporating technology. Solange’s doctoral thesis focuses on teachers’ use of technology in teaching to design learning spaces and curate tools that promote student engagement and collaboration.
Huifang Liu
is a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages in Zhejiang Ocean University, China. In her current role, she is responsible for curriculum design and courseworkshop facilitation. Huifang used to be a secondary school English teacher teaching English as a foreign language. She is an experienced classroom teacher, mentor, and group leader. Huifang’s major research interests are in foreign language teaching, curriculum design, teacher development, and classroom discourses.
Elizabeth Mackinlay
is a professor in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross University (SCU). She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology (1998, University of Adelaide) and a PhD in Education (2003, University of Queensland). Liz’s research focuses on gender, feminism and higher education; decoloniality in the academy; autoethnographic and alternative approaches to academic writing. Liz is the Chair of Human Ethics and Director of Higher Degree Research in Education at SCU. Externally she sits on the editorial board of the journal Qualitative Research and is the Ethics section editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research. She is also the founder of DRAW: Departing Radically in Academic Writing.
Mohammad Tareque Rahman
is Associate Professor at The University of Liberal Arts (ULAB), Bangladesh. He is also the director of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), a professional development institute at ULAB. Dr. Tareque is also the country director (Bangladesh chapter) to the International Higher Education
Umme Salma
holds a doctorate in post-colonial and world literatures in English from the School of Languages and Cultures, the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. She has been a Digital Graduate Research Fellow at UQ Digital Scholars’ Hub, and previously was an assistant professor of English in Bangladesh. Currently, Salma teaches English literature, linguistic, and humanities courses across three schools at UQ. She is also working as an Honorary Virtual Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions, University of Western Australia. Salma has published articles and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals and presented papers at high-quality conferences in Australia, England, and Bangladesh. Her current project includes a first research monograph entitled, Entrapment and breaking free: Mapping migrant emotions in Bangladeshi writings in English.
Margaret Schuls
is retired. During previous stages of her life she has been a student, student teacher, high school music and history teacher, systems analyst, secretary, senior student administrator and finally coming full circle, a student again. Her research interests were in preservice teacher education, critical thinking, creative thinking, and creativity. Her aim in research (and perhaps in life) was to make a difference at a practical level to the lives of teachers, preservice teachers, teacher educators, and students. While her academic career has been cut short because of illness, Margaret hopes that she may have made a difference to some individuals with whom she had contact during her educational career.
Sara Haghighi Siahgorabi
is an academic tutor at the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. After teaching mathematics at high school for ten years in Iran and being recognised for her work in the area of critical thinking, Sara moved to Brisbane, Australia in 2017 to pursue a doctorate in secondary mathematics education. In 2022, Sara was the recipient of Varghese Prize for Comparative Education awarded by UQ. Sara’s research interests include student engagement and enjoyment
Lauren Thomasse
is a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Queensland (UQ), lecturing on the topic of student risk and resilience. Lauren completed her doctorate at UQ in which she explored the resilience strategies and practices of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Lauren is also an experienced classroom teacher with over a decade of experience teaching in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, South Korea, and Nepal.
Tran Le Nghi Tran
is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and has a doctorate from the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. She has experience working as a tour guide and university lecturer in Vietnam and as a casual academic at UQ and Griffith University, Australia. Her teaching and research interests include TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages), CALL (computer-assisted language learning), MALL (mobile-assisted language learning), and online learning. As a person, Tran is a resilient learner, caring teacher, critical though positive thinker, warm-hearted writer, and a fun lover.