Daphne Habibis is Director of the Housing and Community Research Centre at the University of Tasmania. She has published widely in areas of inequality especially in relation to Aboriginal issues and housing. She is the co-author, with Professor Maggie Walter, of the monograph, Social Inequality in Australia: Discourses, Realities and Futures (Oxford University Press, 2008, 2015).

She is the lead investigator on a number of Australian Research Council and Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute funded research projects concerning Aboriginal and Euro-Australian race relations,welfare conditionality in Aboriginal housing, and improving tenancy management in remote Aboriginal communities.

Karl Maton is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Sydney (Australia) and Visiting Professor at Rhodes University (South Africa). Karl has published extensively in sociology, education, and linguistics. He is the creator of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), which is now being widely used by researchers in Australia, Europe, South Africa, China and elsewhere for both research and shaping practice. LCT is a key theoretical framework in over 80 ongoing and completed PhD studies, as well as three Australian Research Council Discovery Projects on cumulative knowledge-building in classrooms and on educational technology.

LCT is also being widely used to shape teaching and learning practices at all levels of education. Karl co-edited Social Realism, Knowledge and the Sociology of Education: Coalitions of the Mind (Continuum, 2010) and Disciplinarity: Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives (Continuum, 2011). Karl’s book, Knowledge and Knowers: Towards a Realist Sociology of Education (Routledge, 2014), sets out key concepts from LCT and was published to widespread critical acclaim. A primer showing how to use LCT in research, Knowledge-building: Educational Studies in Legitimation Code Theory, was published by Routledge in late 2015.