Education and Contested Citizenships in Contemporary Australia

Daniel Johnston is Vice-Provost (Academic) at Excelsia University College, Australia, and an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research explores the intersection of theatre, philosophy and pedagogy. He is the author of Shakespeare and Phenomenology: Theory and Practice (2025),  Phenomenology for Actors: Theatre-Making and the Question of Being (2021), and of Theatre and Phenomenology: Manual Philosophy (2017). 

Patrick Alan Danaher is Professor in the School of Education at Excelsia University College, Australia, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His research interests include the education of occupationally mobile communities, education research ethics and methods, and academics’ work and identities. He has co-edited numerous books, including The Palgrave Handbook of Autoethnographic and Self-Study Education Research Methods (Palgrave Macmillan 2025).