Dr Lisa Papatraianou is Associate Dean- Work Integrated Learning and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Society. She is interested in professional experience, practitioner research, arts-based research and research methodology. She has expertise in the conceptual, theoretical and practical application of human resilience. Her research focuses on the resilience of teachers, teacher educators and young people. Dr Papatraianou holds a BEd (Honours), Grad Cert (Academic Practice) and a PhD. She is a Maurice de Rohan Scholar, an Australian Endeavour Research Fellow, and a recipient of the Australian Teacher Education Association’s University-School Partnership Award