Christine Edwards-Groves is a literacy educator committed to improving educational outcomes in rural settings. She has a long-term industry links and strong record of research achievement in the field of classroom interaction, dialogic pedagogies, teacher professional practice and development, and practice theory.

Christine is key researcher in the International Pedagogy, Education and Praxis Research Network (PEP), receiving a 10-year service award in 2017 for her active participation and leadership. In 2015, she was awarded the inaugural Literacy Research Grant for PETAA, as lead CI “Researching Dialogic Pedagogies”. Recognised as a world leader in action research, she was invited to co-chair the Global Assembly for Knowledge Democracy (2015-17).

In 2013, Christine was awarded an Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching Citation for program innovation developing dialogic pedagogies among pre-service teachers. She has held a number of leadership and governance roles both at a school and Faculty level, and is the current Higher Degrees by Research Coordinator.