Gloria Dall’Alba is Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, as well as a consultant on higher education and workplace learning. Her research and teaching focus on learning and teaching in higher education and the workplace, with particular interest in educating for the professions and the philosophy of higher education. After completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Gothenburg University in Sweden, she has held positions at the University of Melbourne and RMIT University, as well as Karolinska Institute and a secondment to Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She has published widely on a range of issues relating to higher education, workplace learning and research inquiry. A strong strand of her research is interdisciplinary. She has collaborated with researchers from Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden and the USA from the fields of education, pharmacy, business, dentistry, engineering, forensic science, medicine, nursing, philosophy and physics.