Kate Naidu is an experienced researcher and educator, with expertise spanning several disciplinary areas. Her most recent research considers the development of intercultural capacities as a function of study abroad, building on previous work examining the role of secondary school language teachers in relation to notions of ‘culture’ and ‘intercultural understanding’. Her research contributes important insights into the development of intercultural capacities in various contexts, considering these pedagogic processes as embodied, cumulative, and temporal. This research builds on her years of teaching experience - in schools, as a teacher of Indonesian, and at several universities, in Sociology and Education. Her research has been published in various journals, such as Discourse, and Time & Society, as well as Springer’s Handbook of Critical Whiteness. Her research interests include, education, student mobility, culture, and interculturality.