President

Tina Besley, PhD, FPESA
University of Waikato, New Zealand

Tina Besley is Professor of Education & Director, Centre for Global Studies in Education.

Her research interests include: philosophy of education – especially  especially the later work of Michel Foucault – subjectivity, parrhesia, governmentality as applied to education;  interculturalism & global studies in education – policy, identities and cultures;  academic entrepreneurship in the creative economy and global knowledge economy; sociology of education; social justice; youth studies; counseling & narrative therapy. Recent books are Peters, M. A., & Besley, T. (2015). Paulo Freire. The global legacy, New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing. New York & Peters, M. A., Paraskeva, J. M., & Besley, T. (2015). The global financial crisis and educational restructuring, New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Tina is also President of the Association for Visual Pedagogies of which PESA is a founding Institutional member

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wmier/about-us/people/tina-besley

PESA Portfolios – PESA publicity; Conferences
Constituent Organisation representative, Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi

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Vice-President

David Beckett, PhD, FPESA
University of Melbourne, Australia

https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person16338

PESA Portfolio – PESA rules

Secretary

Leon Benade
AUT – Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

https://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles/education/directors/leon-benade

PESA Portfolio – PESA Facebook, Twitter and liaises with our Melbourne based webmaster, James Garrett.

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Treasurer

John Ozolins, PhD, FPESA

Australian Catholic University, Australia

https://webapps.acu.edu.au/staffdirectory/index.php?john-ozolins

PESA Portfolio – Doctoral Scholarships; Conferences

Immediate Past President

Peter Roberts PhD, FPESA
University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Peter Roberts is Professor of Education and Director of the Educational Theory, Policy and Practice Research Hub at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His primary areas of scholarship are philosophy of education and educational policy studies. His research interests include ethics and education, literature and education, the pedagogy of Paulo Freire, and tertiary education policy. His latest book is Happiness, Hope, and Despair: Rethinking the Role of Education (2016).

http://www.education.canterbury.ac.nz/edstudies/people/roberts.shtml

Michael A. Peters

University of Waikato, New Zealand

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/wmier/about-us/people/michael-a.-peters

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Daniella Forster
University of Newcastle, Australia

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/daniella-forster

PESA portfolios – Membership Australia incl post-grads

2017 PESA conference organiser

Liz Jackson
University of Hong Kong

http://web.edu.hku.hk/staff/academic/lizj

PESA Portfolio – PESA Newsletter Editor assisted by Yulia Nesterova.

Georgina Stewart
AUT – Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

http://www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/education/research-and-partnerships/our-staff/senior-lecturers/georgina-stewart

PESA Portfolios – Membership matters, leads EPAT Editorial Development Group.

Sean Sturm
University of Auckland, New Zealand

https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/s-sturm

PESA Portfolio – Post-graduates

PESA Portfolios outside Executive

Indigenous Philosophy Group - Georgina Stewart & Carl Mika

Archives - Marek Tesar with Tina Besley & Michael Peters

Doctoral Scholarships - John Ozolins, past President Nesta Devine & Jayne White