David is Career Consultant (Access & Equity) at Swinburne University, 2020 Equity Fellow at the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE), Treasurer for the National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (NAGCAS) and Vic-Tas committee member for the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN). His NCSEHE Fellowship investigated careers support for students with disability in Australian Universities and he leads a community of practice for Disability Career Development Learning. His interests involve progressing systemic inclusion, employability in the curriculum, industry partnerships that generate equity confidence, and the use of narrative methods to help people develop independent career management capacity.

Dr Keith Heggart is an early career researcher with a focus on learning and instructional design, educational technology and civics and citizenship education. He is currently exploring the way that online learning platforms can assist in the formation of active citizenship amongst Australian youth.

Leanne is an Associate Professor of Online Programs and leads the quality assurance of online short courses and micro-credentials within the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences and across La Trobe University.

Kashmira is a lecturer in Academic Development at UNE. She has about 18 years of experience working in universities in Australia. She taught widely in the area of ICT in education, STEM, REsearch methodologies and other areas of preservice teacher education. Her expertise is in higher education's broad umbrella of learning and teaching. She is interested in learning design, assessment and multimedia learning.

Katherine Theobald coordinates QUT's HDR Industry Engagement program and was instrumental in designing and implementing the program and strategy from the ground up. The role was one of the first to consider a centrally driven cross-disciplinary approach to industry engagement for HDR students in Australia. Katherine has a strong background in Work Integrated Learning policy and implementation and is the founder and former chair of the National HDR WIL Community of Practice. Katherine’s research looks beyond a ‘business ontology’ to the broader impacts of higher education on the lives of students and graduates.

RAMESH SHAHDADPURI is Senior Educational Developer and Coaching & Mentoring Trainer, Centre for Learning Environment and Assessment Development (CoLEAD) at Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), a leading university in applied learning. He leads coaching and mentoring initiatives for faculty development with the aim of developing their professional capabilities as academics and effective leaders. In SIT, coaching development and practice is done through training workshops, peer learning platforms like Communities of Practice and Coaching Circles, and self-learning through Coach Academy, a knowledge repository with curated content from academic and industry sources. Ramesh has a Master in Knowledge Management from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Bachelor of Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a Professional Certified Corporate Coach, Singapore Management University. He is an active member of the ICF Singapore Chapter and has served on its Board of Directors. Ramesh does pro-bono work with non-profit organisations and youth groups to support their people development initiatives. Building on his experience in management, higher education and corporate training, Ramesh is active in researching, writing, and speaking on coaching and education topics via academic journals, education conferences and professional forums.

A transdisciplinary group of scholars from different university functions partnered together to design a robust contextual and embedded set of interactive modules. This included Professional Teaching Fellows, Language Tutors, Academic Skills and Transition specialists. These modules assist business students to grow the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to thrive in the first course of their first year of Tertiary Studies.

Margaret Wegener is a Teaching-Focused Senior Lecturer in Physics at UQ. She teaches aspiring physicists as well as physics courses that service the life sciences. Her physics education work aims to make physics accessible and meaningful. Major themes are contextualisation and development of technology-enhanced activities. Margaret is deeply interested in the relationships between science and art. She is UQ Physics Honours Co-ordinator and Deputy Chair of the Australian Academy of Science’s National Committee for Physics.

Rob Wass is a Senior Lecturer in the Higher Education Development Centre at the University of Otago. He researches questions related to the development of metacognition in socially shared spaces and the development of teachers’ pedagogical beliefs. Previously published research are in the areas of scaffolding for critical thinking, assessment, and academic writing.

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