Professor Bob Lingard is currently a Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Education and the Institute for Social Science Research at The University of Queensland and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He has also been Professor at the University of Edinburgh (2006-2008), where he held the Andrew Bell Chair of Education, and the University of Sheffield (2003-2006) in the UK. From 1989-2003, Bob worked in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, where he was also Professor and for a time Head of School.  Professor Lingard  has an international research reputation in the areas of sociology of education and education policy and has published widely in these fields.