Rosemary C Reilly Editor

Dr Esther Fitzpatrick is a Senior Lecturer in education at The University of Auckland. She came from a teaching background before joining the university. Esther co-established the Narrative and Arts Research Special Interest Network in 2011 and continues to lead research, support development of research students competency, and lead collaborative writing projects. She designs and uses various critical innovative methods to explore complex issues in communities of practice drawing on critical autoethnography, qualitative and post-qualitative approaches including arts-based and craft-based methods. She has published on a wide range of issues on personal and professional identity.

Dr Ying Wang is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland whose work sits at the intersection of arts-based research, education, wellbeing, and culturally responsive methodologies. Her research focuses on marginalised communities, young people, migration, belonging, identity, and care. Dr Wang has extensive experience using creative and arts-based methods in sensitive and community-engaged research, including participatory arts-making and multimodal inquiry. She brings a strong commitment to relational, ethical, and decolonising approaches that recognise making as a powerful mode of knowledge generation.

Dr. Rosemary C. Reilly is a full Professor in the department of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University in Montreal. Her general research interest is exploring the impact of using transformative learning as a lever for change for individual and in systems. Using craft- and arts-based methods, along with participatory qualitative methods, she researches grief, trauma, and post-traumatic growth at an individual and community level, the use of contemplative practices in higher education, and employing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to foster creative and innovative teaching. She has been crafting since she was little

Soyon Park is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Arts and Education at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her research interests include questions of identity, doctoral education, posthumanist theories and post-qualitative inquiry. She is fascinated by how theory entangles with the becoming of a scholar. Her work seeks ways to enact small differences in everyday practices to open up alternative spaces and methods for research.