Prof. Linda Hobbs is an Associate Head of the School of Education at Deakin University, where she obtained a GCHE Exempt and a Doctorate of Philosophy. She obtained her Master of Education at the University of Ballarat. Since 2004, her career has focused strongly on generating new insights and informing new directions in STEM education through targeted research and building the capacity of practicing and pre-service teachers in STEM teaching and learning. Her research interests include Science Education, STEM Education, qualitative research methodologies, secondary science teaching and learning, teaching out-of-field, aesthetic dimensions of teaching, narrative pedagogies, subject cultures and disciplinary boundaries, teacher knowledge, teacher identity, etc.