About the session

Dr Garry Argent

Garry is a lecturer in the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia, in initial teacher education programs and vocational education.

His research focuses on the role that education, language literacy, numeracy (foundation) skills and vocational education play in the lives of various groups such as the culturally and linguistically diverse, people with a disability, young people and displaced workers.

He has also worked as a teacher in the fields of language, literacy, numeracy, and vocational education for over 20 years.

Peter Kelly

Peter is a Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia, in initial teacher education programs. He is a co-founder of the Young People’s Sustainable Futures Lab a Not-For-Profit incorporated association (YPSFL – https://youngpeoplesfutureslab.org ). The Lab partners with young people, educators, employers and policymakers to co-design and test interventions that strengthen wellbeing, learning and transitions into work.

He is a social researcher who has published extensively on young people and new cultures of education/work/democracy in the context of the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis/COVID pandemic, the emergences of artificial intelligence, and with the challenges associated with the climate crisis.

About the session

Dr. Robyn Ober

Dr. Robyn Ober is a Mamu/Djirribal woman from North Queensland and a respected researcher in Indigenous educational leadership and both-ways teaching and learning. Her doctoral work investigated identity and culture expressed in and through Aboriginal English.

Dr Ober’s expertise has been called upon in numerous consultancies on education delivery, both-ways education, Indigenous research methodologies in the Northern Territory, national and international indigenous educational contexts.