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Dr Emma Crawford is an occupational therapist and researcher whose work centres on promoting wellbeing for infants, children, families and communities. Emma's primary focus is on cross-cultural projects that link with community organisations to create social change and reduce the impacts of disadvantage by supporting health enhancing environments and activities in early life. At the centre of Emma's work is the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 - ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing across all ages. Currently, Emma is leading several projects:

1) The BABI Project (research): refugee and asylum seeker families' expereinces during the perinatal period (systematic review, qualitative focus group and interview research)

2) The Uni-Friends program (student delivered service and student placement) - a social-emotional helth promotion program that draws on cultural responsiveness (The Making Connecitons Framework) and community development principles in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled School

3) LUCIE-NDC (research) - mothers' experiences of accessing Neuroprotective-Developmental Care in the first 12 months of their infants' lives

Emma has a strong interest in understanding human experiences, community-driven initiatives, and strengths-based, innovative, evidence based, complex approaches to wellbeing that consider individuals and systems She also carries out research regarding allied health student placements in culturally diverse settings including low-middle income countries and Indigenous contexts. She works as a Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia after having worked in a range of occupational therapy roles including with children with autism, with asylum seekers, with Indigenous Australians with chronic disease, and completing her PhD in Political Science and International Studies in 2015.

Dr Kayoko Hashimoto is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a leading scholar in language policy, Japanese and English language teaching in Asia, specialising in the construction of national and individual identities within fluid multicultural and multilingual contexts. Her work bridges the gap between political and cultural ideology and language teaching practice. As an author/editor, she has published five books including Rethinking the Asian Language Learning Paradigm in Australia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Beyond Native-Speakerism (Routledge, 2018), and Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Her most recent research, featured in Ideologies of Communication in Japan (2025), critically examines the tension between monolingual approaches and multilingual learners.Kayoko maintains a significant international profile, with research and teaching collaborations across Australia, Japan, Vietnam, the UK, and Poland, including a Visiting Fellowship at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo (2024–2025), and appointment as an Erasmus+ Mobility Program scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University (2025–2027). A thematic editor (language & education) of Asian Studies Review, she is also the founder of the annual “Empowering Asian Language Speakers Symposium” at The University of Queensland, with “language and history” as the 2026 theme.