Phil Benson, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Lucy Cooker, University of Nottingham, UK Sara Cotterall, American University of Sharjah, UAE Carol Everhard, Independent Researcher, Greece Diane Malcolm, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain Fumiko Murase, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Linda Murphy, Open University, UK Maria Giovanna Tassinari, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany