Quaylan Allen is an Associate Professor in the Attallah College of Educational Studies at Chapman University and Director of First-Generation Programs. His research addresses educational equity by critically examining the implications of social and educational policy and practice on culturally diverse populations. In particular, his research centers on three interrelated areas. The first focuses on the educational outcomes and social mobility of Black males navigating through the P-20 educational pipeline. The second focuses on the construction and performances of diverse Black masculinities and sexualities within school contexts. The third focuses on the development and use of participant visual methodologies with youth populations. Dr. Allen’s most recent project is a longitudinal qualitative visual study examining the educational trajectories and social mobility of cisgender and gender non-conforming heterosexual and queer Black males. The project also qualitatively and visually documents the range of masculinities Black men express within secondary and post-secondary educational contexts that contribute to their school achievement. He currently sits on the editorial board of Urban Education.

Kirsten is Associate Dean Teaching & Learning in Faculty of Education & Social Work at the University of Auckland and lectures in philosophy of education and sociology of education. Her academic research is informed by fifteen years of teaching experience in primary, secondary, and tertiary education in New Zealand and overseas.

Kirsten’s research brings poststructuralist and feminist theories and methodologies to bear on a range of intersecting and overlapping interests in education that encompass architecture, gender, policy and practice, art, and music.

Through the approaches of discourse analysis, genealogy, metaphor and narrative, and intersectionality, Kirsten’s overall project is to contribute to the renewal of the field of education studies in ways that highlight and promote the transformative power of education.

Petar Jandrić is an educator, researcher and activist. He has written three books, dozens of scholarly articles and chapters, and numerous journalistic articles. Petar’s works have been published in Croatian, English, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian. He regularly participates in national and international educational projects and policy initiatives.

Petar’s background is in physics, education and information science, and his research interests are situated at the post-disciplinary intersections between technologies, pedagogies and the wider society. Petar has worked at Croatian Academic and Research Network, the University of Edinburgh, Glasgow School of Art, and the University of East London. He is editor-in chief of Postdigital Science and Education.

At present, he works as professor and director of BSc (Informatics) programme at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, and visiting associate professor at the University of Zagreb.

Dr Elaine Khoo is a senior research fellow at the Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Elaine’s research interests include teaching and learning in digital/information and communication technology (ICT) supported learning environments, e-learning settings with a particular interest in online learning communities, participatory learning cultures and collaborative research contexts. Elaine has been involved with a number of Ministry of Education funded research projects associated with online learning, Web 2.0 tools and ICTs across the compulsory schooling sector and tertiary level. In these projects, video use is predominantly to record classroom observations and analyse for the kinds of talk and interactions that students and their peers engaged in. A current project focuses on understanding early childhood teachers’ use of digital storytelling to promote reflective practice supportive of migrant and refugee children’s developing sense of belonging.

In 2018, Elaine co-led a project with Mira Peter that received a national award from the Flexible Learning Association NZ (FLANZ) for best practice in e-learning, distance, open and flexible learning in New Zealand. The team project entitled: Easy Over: Developing flipped class videos to teach undergraduate engineering threshold concepts won the award for developing best practice videos for flipped teaching. The team members were Prof Jonathan Scott, Craig Gilliver and Prof Bronwen Cowie, University of Waikato.

Further details about Elaine’s research is available at: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/staff-profiles/people/ekhoo

John O’Neill is Professor and Director of the Institute of Education at Massey University New Zealand. His research interests include education policy, teachers’ work and learning, applied research and professional ethics, and teaching and learning in the everyday.

Birthe Lund, Ph.d. Associate Professor, Department of Learning and Philosophy at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her main research interest is design and evaluation of creative and innovative learning processes in education, as well as philosophy of education. She has been studying and teaching creativity and innovation for more than twenty years within higher education, besides being engaged in the development of new education programmes at masters level. She is actively engaged in international collaborations and publishing as an editor. Among other initiatives, she has participated in the strategic research body for a multi-year interdisciplinary project concerning collective, user-driven innovation in the public sector.

Tina Besley is foundation President of AVP. She is Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University. Tina has a strong international focus. Until 2018 she was Professor, Associate Dean International and Director of Centre for Global Studies in Education at University of Waikato. Prior to this she was Research Professor at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, California State University San Bernardino and University of Glasgow.

Tina has wide research interests including: the philosophy of education, school counselling, educational politics and policy, research assessment in higher education, subjectivity, youth studies, interculturalism and global knowledge economy and cultures. Her recent work now examines contemporary global issues such as truth-telling, fake news, immigration, environmental issues and social justice.

She has considerable editorial experience in journal publication: Educational Philosophy and Theory, Open Review of Educational Research, Knowledge Cultures and formerly, Policy Futures in Education, E-Learning and Digital Media.

She is the Past President and a Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA); President of the Association of Visual Pedagogies and Co-Editor of Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy (VJEP).