Xingyu Meng is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education, at Monash University. As a student researcher, she studied Chinese international students’ use of social media. Her research interests include Pierre Bourdieu's theory, international student experience and digital media.

Melinda is a passionate mother and scholartist with a love of learning. As an academic practitioner, she weaves spiritual practices and feminist principles within inclusive curriculum and participatory action research. As a non-First Nations woman, Melinda’s work supports national agendas for Indigenous higher education in Australia, with a focus on the politics of identity. Doctoral work adopted a Jungian archetypal schema to explore multiples identities of academic health professionals at the research-teaching nexus, and the ways in which Indigenous ontologies reshape academic identities. Melinda coordinates the foundational subject in the Graduate Certificate Higher Education Teaching & Learning, and teaches into the Practising Inclusion and Evidencing Academic Practice subjects. She is interested in the role of the global Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on the gendered division of academic work in Australian higher education, which surfaced existing inequalities through disruption.