Toni BABAROVIĆ is a senior scientific advisor at the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences and a full professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. His research interests are in the fields of career guidance and counselling, work and vocational psychology as well as psychology of education and quality of life. He is the author or co-author of more than forty peer-reviewed journal articles, thirteen book chapters, one monograph, and more than a hundred conference abstracts.

Renee Kok is Assistant Programme Chair at Republic Polytechnic, Singapore, where she leads curriculum innovation and research in career development and student well-being. Her work focuses on applying design thinking approaches, including the Designing Your Life framework, to support students in navigating uncertainty and building adaptive career capabilities. She is involved in institution-wide evaluation of student outcomes and contributes to research on career self-efficacy, life design, and holistic student development in higher education.

Elizabeth Childs is interested in the design, creation and implementation of flexible learning environments that incorporate the affordances of information and communication technology (ICT) and provide learners with increased choice, flexibility and opportunities for co-creation. With expertise in educational technology & instructional design, design thinking, open education and online learning, her research interests include open educational practices and pedagogies; creation of online communities and digital habitats; design thinking and models for immersive professional development. Experience Childs consults nationally and internationally in the areas of online and blended learning, online communities, professional learning, instructional design, and capacity development for technology enabled learning environments. She has worked with client groups across K-12, post secondary, government and industry to develop and implement blended learning environments and online learning communities in their organizations. Two of the projects she is currently involved in include Taking Making, and the Fully Online Learning Community Model.

Elspeth Tilley is Professor of Creative Communication at Massey University in Wellington. Her research and teaching sit at the intersection of creative activism, applied theatre, and community-engaged pedagogy. Her scholarship examines how creative practice can contribute to social change, with a particular focus on ethics, social justice, and creative education. She is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed academic publications, and has published six books, including editing the international collection Creative Activism Research, Pedagogy and Practice (2022), which brings together global scholarship on how socially and environmentally transformative artistic practice is theorised, taught, and evaluated. Dr Tilley’s work has received significant recognition across both pedagogy and creative practice. She received Massey’s College of Humanities & Social Sciences Sustained Excellence Award for Teaching (2019) and the Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand Charles Fleming Publishing Award (2024), alongside multiple playwriting honours including the Playwrights’ Association of New Zealand Outstanding Achievement Award (2018). Projects emerging from her community-engaged teaching, including Te Hā Tangata, have produced public outcomes such as a book and an award-winning play, demonstrating the wider civic and cultural reach of her pedagogical practice. Her own climate change theatre action plays have been translated into six languages and performed in major theatres worldwide.