Her research interests include pre-service and in-service teacher education, community-based art education, arts-based methods, life and light writing and digital media. As an artist, researcher and teacher, Anita brings interdisciplinary perspectives to research involving qualitative approaches and visual and literary arts practice, in relation to curriculum studies and social and cultural issues in education. Anita has co-edited a literary anthology with Christine Lowther, Writing the West Coast: In Love With Place (2008).