Bernadette Walker-Gibbs Editor & Author

Dr Sarah Pinto is an Australian historian with research interests in public and popular history, the history and politics of emotions, and the study of place and space. She has published widely in these areas, often working collaboratively with colleagues from a range of other disciplines. Her research is often interdisciplinary, and her main focus is on the ways in which the past is represented and mobilised in the present. 
Dr Shelley Hannigan is a New Zealand/Australian artist and academic who teaches art and interdisciplinary education. Her research focuses on artistic practice and thinking, creativity, visual literacies, and considerations of place, space and identity. Her work on education questions disciplines, teaching spaces and places, and crosses boundaries through collaborative efforts with science and mathematics educators. 
Associate Professor Bernadette Walker-Gibbs is recognized as an outstanding educator with an international reputation for leading large-scale, longitudinal studies on teacher education, and for international comparative studies on rural education. She is an established leader in the field of rural education and pedagogy, and draws on an extensive research background from across rural Australia.
Dr Emma Charlton is a Lecturer in Education. She teaches in an alternative pathways program that provides active support for non-traditional students seeking to enter tertiary studies. Her research focuses on gender and education, and on place-related and other dimensions of identity for primary, secondary and tertiary students, including students in alternative pathways and transition programs. Her main interest is in the intersections between student subjectivities and issues of social justice.