Dr Lisa Papatraianou is a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Chair- Pedagogies in the College of Education specialising in Professional Learning. 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