A/Prof Amanda Gutierrez is an Associate Professor of Literacies in Education. She publishes on critical literacies, critical digital games literacies, future schooling, partnership theory and professional becoming. Her recent work has utilised research grants to explore future schooling needs and conceptualisation. She also leads research projects investigating pre-service teacher professional becoming in partnership models, with significant grant funding across both local and international partnership projects. Her work as an intern editor for the Asia Pacific Journal of Teacher Education has led to her recent role as the Book Review co-editor. Her background in critical literacies stems from her MEd titled "'Empowering' Indigenous students in a critical literacy classroom" while teaching secondary English in Northwest Western Australia, followed by her PhD, completed in 2014, entitled Critical literacy in Australia: affordances, tensions, and hybridizations. The PhD focused on the ways critical literacy is constructed in teacher discourses, in academic texts and in state curriculum documents. Her interest in critical digital games literacies was sparked when working as a research assistant on a digital games Australian Research Council project ‘Literacy in the digital world of the twenty first century: Learning from computer games’ (Beavis, Bradford, O’Mara & Walsh, 2009). Since then, she has conducted her own research and published on constructions of critical literacies, multiliteracies and digital games literacies through a National survey of high school English teachers. She has been chief investigator of state, private, and faculty funded research projects in education and has strong research translation experience.