Dr. Seb Dianati, a Senior Academic Lead at Charles Darwin University, heads the Digital Learning Futures team within Education Strategy at CDU. With a background at the University of Queensland since 2018, he's served as a Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Lab (CaLD Lab). His leadership has driven the widespread implementation of digital technologies through student partnerships, demonstrated by numerous institutional rollouts. Dr. Seb is lauded for his impact on digital and e-learning pedagogies, leveraging student partnerships to enhance course and curriculum design. He gained distinction for leading an expansive student partnership initiative involving over 60 student partners and 29 projects, culminating in a prestigious 2022 commendation. Dr. Dianati's collaborative approach, shaped by previous roles at Flinders University, emphasises blended, flexible, and active learning methods. His extensive publications, including research on contextualisation, critical-digital partnership, and diverse manifestations of partnership, underline his ability to conduct a variety of methodological approaches for structural equation modelling to critical participatory action research.