Beryl Exley is a Professor of Literacy and English Education at Griffith University, Queensland. She has a distinguished career in teacher education, literacy studies, and systemic functional linguistics, with experience leading national and international research collaborations. Her work focuses on reading development, digital literacies, and English curriculum design. Beryl served on ALEA National Council 2005-2019 with the last two years as National President. In 2019 she was awarded ALEA Principal Fellow and ALEA Life membership. She supervises higher degree researchers, leads the GriffLinC Research Group.

Nathan is a Senior Lecturer in English, Literacies and Language in the School of Education at the University of New England (UNE). He investigates the interrelationship between language, literature and literacy in student writers and multimodal texts such as videogames, picturebooks and animated films. Nathan employs systemic functional linguistics, social semiotic theory, and multimodal critical discourse analysis as research methodologies. His research contributes to multimodal theory and the applied research field of English disciplinarity. He is an Associate Editor of The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy and serves the profession through involvement with the Australian Literacy Educators' Association (ALEA).

Vinh To is a Senior Lecturer in English Education at the University of Tasmania. Her research interest includes educational linguistics, English, literacy and languages education. She is Convenor of SFLIG Conferences, and Editor of SFLIG research books and special issues. Her publications appear in top quartile journals such as the Australian Journal of Linguistics, the International Journal of Early Years Education, the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy. She is co-author of Language and literacy: Essential knowledge for all teachers, published by Cambridge University Press (2025). She has been invited to deliver international keynotes in Vietnam, Lithuania, Spain, and Indonesia.