I research literacy, pedagogy and spaces of learning from a relational socio-material perspective, drawing on actor network theory to study the ‘intra-actions’ of humans, texts, space and materials in teaching and learning practices. I am an English specialist with expertise in digital media and literature for children and young people, who lectures in in the primary and secondary teacher education courses at the University of South Australia. My doctoral study was a critical analysis of the ‘21st century learner’ which investigated the networks of discourse and practice that circulated in a middle school around the subjectivity of the learner as ‘new’. This study explored pedagogy, literacy and agency as the performance of networks of people, texts, technologies and spaces. I have published articles and conference papers about interdisciplinary collaboration, digital literacies, and children's literature. In my recent research I investigated the use of blogging as literacies of dialogue and interaction in hybrid learning spaces and I am currently researching methods of interpreting literature through transmediation in higher education and school contexts. In my current role as Program Director of the Bachelor of Secondary Education (Honours) and Master of Teaching (Secondary) I am actively reviewing curriculum and assessment practices through collaborative inquiry with teacher educators. I consult with schools and professional associations about inclusive teaching and learning practices including approaches to differentiation across the curriculum.