Hope theory as resistance: narratives of South Asian scholars in Australian academia Available to Purchase

Nicola Sum is Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Her work in the faculty draws on over twenty years of school experience in the Australian, English and international education systems. Her previous roles in school leadership, and as school principal, led to her doctoral research on the inter-connected nature of glocalisation and educational leadership practice in English-medium Schools in Bangladesh. She lectures in principal preparation and postgraduate studies in education, and her current research interests include leadership, globalisation and international education.

Reshmi Lahiri-Roy (she/her) works within Deakin University's Faculty of Arts and Education and is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Federation University's School of Education. Her research interests include the role of race in education, social and cultural inclusion of “others” in academia, autoethnography as method, emotion writing in educational/career experiences of women of colour. Her current research looks at issues of identity and belonging in relation to diasporas with special focus on women migrants within the spaces of education, sociology and cultural studies.

Nish Belford is Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Her teaching and research experience empower her research interests in interdisciplinary fields of study. Her current research focusses on discourses around identity politics from a migrant's perspective, in particular to women of colour in exploring issues around cultural transitions, acculturation experiences, home, ties with the homeland, settlement and belonging being a twice-diasporic subject. In her recent works, she has examined the influence of post-colonial identity with culture, ethnicity and education in affording both privilege and disempowerment with ambivalence to an identity negotiation living in a transnational space.