Chris Bradbeer is a Research Fellow, based in Auckland, New Zealand. His role is to work closely with New Zealand schools, facilitate data collection in New Zealand and contribute to case study developments. Chris is also Associate Principal at Stonefields School in Auckland, where he has been involved in developing a vision for teaching and learning, building teacher capacity and having the opportunity to consider ‘what might be possible’ in a new school setting. He is also currently completing a PhD, in conjunction with the ‘Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments’ ARC Linkage project, focussing on the nature of collaborative teacher practices in Innovative Learning Environments in New Zealand. Chris is Chair of the New Zealand Chapter of Learning Environments Australasia.

Dr Benjamin (Ben) Cleveland is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, where he coordinates the research program of the Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN). He is a Chief Investigator for the ARC Linkage Project, ‘Innovative Learning Environments + Teacher Change’ (2016-2019). His other recent research activity has included leading a review of the Victoria Department of Education and Training’s Standard Entitlement Frameworks, a three-year program of learning environment evaluation for Catholic Education Melbourne, and as Research Manager for the ARC Linkage Project, ‘Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments’ (2013-2016). He co-developed and collaboratively teaches the Masters electives ‘Innovative Spaces and Pedagogy’ and ‘Physical Learning Spaces: Effecting Pedagogic Change in Schools’, and supervises a number of PhD and Masters research students. Ben has published extensively on the topic of school design and learning environments, including as co-editor a 2016 book titled ‘Evaluating learning environments: Snapshots of emerging issues, methods and knowledge’ with Associate Professor’s Wesley Imms and Kenn Fisher (Sense Publishers). Ben is Chair of the Victorian Chapter of Learning Environments Australasia and was Co-Chair of the 2016 Australasia Regional Conference held in Melbourne.

Assoc. Professor Wesley Imms is Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s Head of Visual Art Education, and its Research Higher Degree Coordinator for Curriculum and Teaching. He is the lead Chief Investigator of the ARC Linkage Project ‘Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change’ (2016-2019), and also leads the Evaluating 21st Century Learning Environments ARC Linkage Project (2013- 2016). He has been involved in a range of solo and collaborative projects since 2000 involving approximately $11 million of external funding, has published over 70 peer reviewed articles, chapters, conference papers and books, numerous reports and invited lectures in Australia and internationally. He is an experienced educator and is involved in teaching subjects spanning visual art curriculum and studio practice, innovative learning spaces, and Masters-level in learning spaces capstone and teacher/practitioner subjects, in addition to supervising 19 Doctoral, Master of Education/Philosophy and Master of Teaching honours theses. In recent years Associate Professor Imms has conducted more than fifty research workshops in schools in most Australian states. He has conducted evidence-based research projects in schools on topics such as student inhabitation of curriculum, linking learning spaces to pedagogy, improving the learning outcomes and school experience of boys, utilising ICT in teaching and teacher education, and trans-disciplinary curriculum.

Adrian Lim is Director of the Education Sector (Sectoral Innovation Group) at the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA). He leads a dynamic team looking at how it can work with the education technology industry partners, start-ups to develop innovative ideas, applications in K-12 schools, the education and training sector to enhance learning and teaching to build deep skills in the 21st century. Adrian was formerly a Principal of a Future School in Singapore (Ngee Ann Secondary School). The school was also a Microsoft Pathfinder, Mentor and World Tour School. He was an Honouree Winner in the Academic Leadership Category of the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) in the World Award in 2011 and an Expert Panel member of the New Media Consortium Horizon Report: 2015 K-12 Edition.

Leslie is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and adult educator. Leslie is the founder and CEO of Lithan. Lithan transforms higher education and adult learning through skills-based learning pedagogies and innovative business models. Lithan is poised to disrupt traditional classroom education with our CLaaS® (Competency Learning as a Service) offering to deliver mass customization in adult learning. Leslie is also the founder of Red Dot Ventures (RDV), which nurtures and incubates early tech startups in Singapore and the region. In 1983, Leslie founded System Access and grew the company from a one-man outfit to a global banking software provider with 10 offices and customers in 40 countries across Asia, Europe and Africa. System Access was eventually acquired in 2006. Leslie served as a board and advisory panel member of various Singapore Government agencies to assist in charting the nation’s economic strategies, infocomm manpower development, SME/Startups development & adult education development.

Dr Marian Mahat is the lead Research Fellow of the ILETC project. As the Research Manager, she oversees all research activities and the dissemination of project findings including the management of Research Fellows and project PhD students. Marian has more than twenty years of professional and academic experience, spanning several Australian universities, the Australian Federal and local governments, the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Leadership and Management, the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education (MCSHE), as well as the private sector. Highly proficient in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, she has worked on collaborative projects, written numerous publications and presented in conferences in higher education.