Dr Lorraine White-Hancock has worked most recently within the Faculty of Education at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), teaching subjects within the Graduate Certificate of Educational Research, a course which prepares people for conducting PhD research. Previously, White-Hancock was appointed Lecturer in Applied Learning – STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) in the School of Education, La Trobe University, Australia. Her research focuses on transdisciplinary work and learning, innovation and design thinking in organisations, art-science collaborations and STEAM education. Lorraine completed her PhD in 2017. Her background is as a practicing artist and object designer, initially studying art and design (gold and silversmithing) at RMIT University, Australia. For some years, Lorraine was the Course Coordinator of the Adv. Dip. Engineering Technology (Jewellery Design & Metalsmithing) (ADET-JDM) in the Centre for Creative Industries at Box Hill Institute, Australia. There, Lorraine initiated and wrote much of the ADET-JDM curriculum and taught a range of design, history, research and practical units within the course.