Author: Julie White

Kitty te Riele is Professor and Deputy Director (Research) in the Peter Underwood Centre at the University of Tasmania, on lutruwita (Tasmania) land, Australia. Her main research focus is educational policy and practice for marginalised young people, including in youth justice and in alternative education settings. Tim Corcoran is Associate Professor in Inclusive Education at the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia. His main fields of research are inclusive education and educational psychology. This work challenges ableism in local, national, and international education policy and practice supporting psychosocial ways of knowing/being.  Fiona Mac Donald is Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities at Victoria University, Australia. Her research focus is on inclusive education and social justice and investigates how children and young people negotiate a sense of belonging and identity in their local, everyday lives.  Alison Baker is Associate Professor in Youth and Community Studies in the College of Arts and Education at Victoria University, Australia, on the land of the Wurundjeri of the Kulin nation. Her research focuses on the how inequality impacts young people from marginalised backgrounds, specifically on social identities, sense of belonging and the development of voice and activism. Julie White is Honorary Professor in the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, at Victoria University, Australia. Her major research interest is inclusive education, with a current focus on the education of young people in youth custody.