ABOUT THE AUTHORS Thomas Banhazi is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland and his expertise is related to various aspects of animal production. He participated in excess of 40 research projects throughout the years both in Australia and Europe, and published in excess of 200 book chapters, journal and international conference papers. Ali Black is an arts-based and narrative researcher in the School of Education, University of the Sunshine Coast. Her research and scholarly work seeks to foster connectedness, community, wellbeing and meaning-making through the building of reflective and creative lives and identities. Ali is interested in storied and visual approaches for knowledge construction, representation and meaning-making and the power and impact of auto-ethnographic, collaborative and relational knowledge construction. David Bright is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. His research, teaching, and engagement are focused on questions of difference and identity, exploring how teachers and students encounter each other in diverse contexts. David’s current research interests include post qualitative research methods and writing as a method of inquiry. Tracey Bunda is a Ngugi/Wakka Wakka woman and current Head of the College for Indigenous Studies Education and Research. Her research interests extend to Indigenous Knowledges as a critical theoretical foundation for centering Indigenous voices and interrogation of white ideologies and institutional and individual practice. Jennifer Charteris is Senior Lecturer of Pedagogy and has been working in the University of New England School of Education since 2013. She conducts research in the area of the politics of teacher and student learning, identity and subject formation. Critical, poststructural and posthuman theories influence much of her work and she is interested in how theories of affect and materiality can be used to inform education research. Pauline Collins, Associate Professor, teaches dispute resolution in the Bachelor of Laws and Juris Doctor at the University of Southern Queensland. Pauline has a number of teaching awards. Pauline’s PhD was in the area of civil-military relations and the role of the courts (University of Queensland). She has research interest in and has been published in academic journals on matters such as legal education, IR laws, alternative dispute resolution, international law and private military companies. Prior to joining USQ Pauline was a legal practitioner in South Australia working in general practice, Parliamentary Counsel, the Crown Solicitors Office, and the office of the Director of Public Prosecution. In addition to her legal 255 ABOUT THE AUTHORS qualifications Pauline has degrees in visual arts, public relations and is a Nationally Qualified mediator. Gail Crimmins is an Early Career Researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Prior to moving to Australia Gail was a UK-based actor, director and casting director and taught Drama at universities and conservatoires. Gail’s research combines the arts with narrative inquiry in arts-informed research projects which explore the lived experiences of various marginalised women, such as women casual academics, mothers with rheumatoid arthritis, and women survivors of domestic and family violence. Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor in Educational Research in the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, where he is currently Associate Dean (Research and Research Training) in the Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts. He is also currently Adjunct Professor in the School of Education and the Arts in the Higher Education Division at CQUniversity, Australia. Email: [email protected] Samuel Davies is a personal fitness trainer who has been running his own business for the past five years. He worked successfully out of a large commercial gymnasium with an extensive clientele before choosing to downgrade to work on a more personal level with only a handful of chosen clients. Samuel is currently studying a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) degree at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Email: [email protected] Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Professor Dervin specializes in intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility. Dervin has widely published in international journals on identity, the ‘intercultural’ and mobility/migration. He has published over 40 books. Erich C. Fein is a Senior Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland. He completed his PhD in psychology at the Ohio State University with a focus on quantitative methods, organisational psychology, and individual differences. His research programs focus on motivation and performance, training and development, work life balance, and occupational health, and include the coordinated supervision of numerous PhD students. Rahul Ganguly has two decades of experience in disability rehabilitation, with specific expertise in supporting individuals with emotional and behavioural disabilities. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at USQ, where he teaches post- graduate courses in special education and conducts Australian Government funded research on resilience among University students with disabilities. 256 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Susanne Gannon, Associate Professor, is Deputy Director and Equity strand leader in the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University. She is a prolific publisher with interests in diverse fields of educational research including gender equity and diversity; creative writing pedagogies; media and cultural studies in educational research and educational policy. She uses a range of qualitative methodologies including autoethnography and narrative methodologies, collective biography, discourse analysis and she is particularly interested in how theories of affect and materiality are reshaping feminist theories and research methodologies in education. Kathryn Gilbey is an Alyawarrye woman and a passionate educator who believes in the transformative effect of education designed by and for Aboriginal peoples. She is an academic at the College for Indigenous Studies Education and Research co-ordinating the Preparatory Pathways program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students seeking entry into the university. Judith A. Gouwens earned the EdD degree from the University of Kansas and is professor of education at Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois. Her research interests are qualitative research methods, education of underserved children, and education of migrant farmworkers’ children. She has published books about migrant education and education reform. Marcus K. Harmes is a senior lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland’s Open Access College with particular interests in the history of education and popular culture studies. In the latter field has he has published on a range of topics including science fiction and horror cinema as well as the use of television as an educational medium. Linda Henderson is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Her research draws on post-structural and post-humanist ideas, methodologies and practices. Through her work she aims to foster connectedness with all living matter in an effort to create a world that values connectedness, heterogeneity and multiplicity. Her work includes poetry, narrative and creativity with the aim of generating new and just imaginaries for education and society. Robyn Henderson, Associate Professor, teaches and researches in the field of literacy education at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. She is particularly interested in the impact of student mobility on literacy learning. In working in initial teacher education, she is also curious about the university context and how it works. Andrew Hickey, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in Communications in the School of Arts and Communications at the University of Southern Queensland. Andrew is a critical ethnographer and has undertaken large-scale research projects exploring community, and the role of place and social harmony with various government 257 ABOUT THE AUTHORS partners and community organisations. His most recent books, The Pedagogies of Cultural Studies (Routledge) and Cities of Signs: Learning the logic of urban spaces (Peter Lang) chart the public pedagogical formations that organise contemporary life. Andrew can be contacted at: [email protected] Eileen Honan is a senior lecturer at The University of Queensland in the School of Education. Her particular research interests include: the connections between teachers’ practices and curriculum guidelines; the interactions between home and school literacy practices particularly in relation to digital literacies; and the development of new rhizomatic methodologies in educational research. Cecily Jensen-Clayton is a director of Lifelong Conscious Living, is an academic, theologian, philosopher, educator, linguist, and psychoanalyst. Cecily’s work, scholarship, and publishing are underpinned by a feminist consciousness that includes mentoring and offering spiritual guidance to research students and women for effective leadership in our complex age. Janice Jones is a Senior Lecturer (Expressive Arts) in the School of Linguistics,