Patrick Danaher is Associate Professor (Education Research) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland. He is a co-author of Teaching Traveller Children: Maximising Learning Outcomes (Trentham Books, 2007) and author and co-author of articles published in journals such as the Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, Educational Research, the International Journal of Educational Research, the Journal of Education for Teaching and Teaching in Higher Education. His research interests include mobile communities, educational research ethics and politics, and educators' and researchers' work and identities. He has wide experience of engaging with referees' feedback, including rejection notices.

Sue Grieshaber is Professor within the School of Early Childhood at Queensland University of Technology. Her research interests include early childhood curriculum, policy, gender and families, with a focus on equity and diversity. She has published widely in a range of areas that reflect her research interests and co-edits the international, refereed online journal Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. She is also on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Early Childhood, the Australia Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education and is a consulting editor for Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Robyn Henderson is a Senior Lecturer in Literacies Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, where she teaches into undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Her current research interests are multiliteracies, academic and digital literacies, and the implications of itinerancy or mobility on school-based literacy learning. Robyn has published widely, both individually and collaboratively, and is currently one of the editors of Literacy Learning: the Middle Years.

Stephen Kemmis is Professor at Charles Sturt University. He is also Professor Emeritus of the University of Ballarat. His academic background is in educational psychology and educational research and evaluation, and his research interests are in educational theory, educational research and evaluation, participatory action research, and Indigenous education. His major publications include Becoming Critical: Education, knowledge and action research (with Wilfred Carr; London: Falmer 1986), Enabling Praxis: Challenges for education (co-edited with Tracey J Smith; Rotterdam: Sense, 2008) and a variety of publications on action research and educational evaluation. He has also published on topics including computer-assisted learning in schools, approaches to educational research, teacher professional development, education in disadvantaged schools, diversity in the Australian higher education system, and Indigenous education.

Allan Luke is Professor of Education at QUT with extensive experience in publishing and editing in education journals and book series. He is current co-editor of: Review of Research in Education (Sage/AERA), Teaching Education (Routledge), Asia Pacific Journal of Education (Routledge) and Pedagogies (Erlbaum). He previously was co-editor of: Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (International Reading Association) and Discourse (Carfax); his book series are: Critical Perspectives on Literacy and Education (Taylor & Francis, 1990-1997), and Language and Education (Multilingual Matters, 2002-present). He is an editorial board member of more than 15 international journals and has recently been section co-editor of the International Handbook of Urban Education, Sage Handbook of Curriculum and the International Encyclopedia of Education.

Annette Patterson is Professor and Head of the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at QUT and Managing Editor of AARE's research journal, the Australian Educational Researcher. Her research contributions are in the fields of secondary English education, curriculum studies and literacy and she is a member of the editorial and reviewing boards of several other journals. Annette has co-authored five books and published more than fifty journal articles and book chapters. She is currently investigating the out-of-school reading practices of Year 9 students and is involved in the development of the AustLit database.

Sue Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Griffith University. Her research investigates the interrelationships between education policy and other institutions, such as the media, systems, schooling practices and professional identities. Her research into these interrelationships focuses on the language of policy, i.e. the discursive nature of policy. Sue uses CDA to analyse the discursive analysis of current policies on teacher quality as well as the discursive construction of professional identities of both teachers and educational leaders. Publications include Education Policy in the Media: Public Discourses on Education (2006, Post Pressed) and Rethinking Leadership in Global Policy Contexts (forthcoming, Springer).