Rachel Spronken-Smith is a Professor in Higher Education and Geography in the Higher Education Development Centre (HEDC) at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. She lectured in Geography at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch (1994-2003), and completed a PGDip in Tertiary Teaching from Otago. She then moved to Otago in 2004, where she was an academic developer and head of HEDC (2009-2012). She was Dean of Otago’s Graduate Research School from 2012-2022. Rachel’s current research interests are in doctoral education and doctoral outcomes, undergraduate research and inquiry, and curriculum change. She has won several university teaching awards and a national tertiary teaching award in 2015. In 2016 she won the TERNZ-HERDSA medal for Sustained Contribution to the Research Environment in NZ and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2018. You can find out more about Rachel here: https://www.otago.ac.nz/hedc/people/otago615546.html