ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Stephen Billett Dr. Stephen Billett is Professor of Adult and Vocational Education at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He has worked as a vocational educator, educational administrator, teacher educator, professional development practitioner and policy developer in the Australian vocational education system, and as a teacher and researcher at Griffith University. Since 1992, he has researched learning through and for work, and published widely in fields of learning of occupations, workplace learning, work and conceptual accounts of learning for vocational purposes. He has been Fulbright scholar, national teaching fellow, and recipient of an honorary doctorate from Jyväskylä University in Finland. Anneli Eteläpelto Anneli Eteläpelto, PhD (Psychology) is a Professor (Adult Education) at the Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Before that, she was the Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Helsinki. Her research interests have addressed work-related learning and how to promote workplace learning through the renegotiation of professional identity and enacting professional agency at work. She has widely published in international and national refereed forums, edited and co-edited books on professional and work-related learning, identity, agency, creativity, expertise development, and social aspects of learning and education. She is currently leading a research project, The Role of Emotions in Agentic Learning at Work (REAL), funded by the Finnish Academy. Karen Evans Karen Evans is Professor in the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. She is a leading researcher in the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s LLAKES Research Centre, investigating Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies. Karen Evans’ main fields of research are learning in life and work transitions, and workplace learning. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her international appointments have included a two-year Visiting Fellowship with the Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore, 2011-2013.
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