Paul Gardner is a Senior Lecturer teaching and researching literacy education at Curtin University, Perth Australia and had previously worked at De Montfort University, University of Northampton and the University of Bedfordshire in the UK. Before moving into the university sector he was a drama teacher in primary and secondary/high schools and worked as a coordinator for the multicultural education service serving over 70 schools in the city of Milton Keynes, UK. His scholarly and research work focuses on literacy and identity with a particular focus on writer identity and compositional processes as well as process drama, children’s literature and multicultural education. His PhD was on writer identity and the compositional process at the University of Bedfordshire, under the supervision of Professor Janice Wearmouth and was examined by Professor Teresa Cremin (OU) and Dr. Eve Bearne (Camb). He is a member of the Western Australian Council of the Australian Literacy Educators Association (ALEA) and on the Executive Committee of the Western Australian Institute of Educational Research. He was appointed a UKLA International Ambassador to Australia in 2016 and also serves as a founding member of the UKLA Critical Literacy Special Interest Group.