Davis Chair in Community College Leadership. She has recently moved to Toronto from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She started her career as a community development teacher in TAFE (the Australian analogue of further education), has worked in a number of universities in Australia in the field of tertiary education and vocational and higher education. Her recent projects include: a project exploring the links between post-compulsory education and the labour market; the emergence of ‘mixed-sector’ institutions in Australia that offer vocational and higher education; the quality of teaching in vocational education; building future capabilities for vocational education teachers; and alternatives to competency-based training models of curriculum.