Dr Navan Govender (he/they) (SFHEA) is a scholar-activist whose interdisciplinary research and teaching explores the relationship between multimodal meaning-making, power, identity, and ideology in English language and literacy (teacher) education. Through critical, queer, and decolonial paradigms, Navan’s work seeks to bridge theory, research, and practice in contextually-relevant ways that contribute toward social justice, equity, and inclusion. Navan is currently lecturer in applied language and literacy studies at the Strathclyde Institute of Education (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), the UK Literacy Association’s (UKLA) vice-president elect, and a co-editor of the International Literacy Association’s Wiley journal, The Reading Teacher.