Professor Tonia Gray is a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Educational Research and a Professor in the School of Education and World Leisure Centre for Excellence at Western Sydney University. Her practice and research covers outdoor and experiential education, eco-pedagogies, and human–nature relationships, spanning over three decades of scholarly impact. She has received major honours including the Australian Awards for University Teaching (Teaching Excellence, 2014), AEE Distinguished Researcher of the Year (2019), and Fellowship of Outdoor Education Australia (2020). Tonia was recently admitted as a life member to Outdoors NSW&ACT and is also an inaugural Fellow of Outdoor Education Australia (FOEA).