Dr. Richard Smith is a marine biologist and conservationist, an award-winning underwater photographer and videographer, an acclaimed public speaker, and the leader of diving expeditions around the world; he's been on more than thirty-five hundred dives since 1996. Dr. Smith has written hundreds of articles, published internationally with a primary focus on conservation, marine life, and travel.

His photographs have been featured around the world, including on dozens of magazine covers and in exhibitions. In 2018, he identified a new species of pygmy seahorse, having first photographed it five years previously. The new species, Hippocampus japapigu, is the size of a grain of rice and from the temperate waters of Japan. Dr. Smith has a bachelor's degree in Zoology, a master's degree in Marine Ecology and Evolution, and a PhD that he received for his pioneering research on pygmy seahorses; it was the first PhD ever awarded for the subject.

Dr. Smith is a member of the IUCN Seahorse, Pipefish and Seadragon Specialist Group, and the world authority on these fishes, and the Global Pygmy Seahorse Expert for iSeahorse.org, which uses citizen science to further research and conservation. He lives in London, England.

Over the past decade or so, Tony Taylor, who is based at Monash University, has worked closely with a wide range of colleagues to improve the standing of history education in Australia.

In 1999 he was appointed Director of the Australian Government's National Inquiry into the Teaching and Learning of History and, from 2001-2007, he was Director of the Australian Government's National Centre for History Education.

In 2003-2005, with the assistance of an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant, he developed national professional standards for the teaching and learning of history.

He researches and publishes extensively in Australia and overseas in the field of history education and since 2003, he has successfully led three large ARC grants in that field and is currently involved as a partner in another ARC history education project.

From 2006 to 2012 he worked with Professor Stuart Macintyre as senior consultant with successive Coalition and ALP federal governments in formulating three drafts of a national history curriculum.