Susan Hood

Karl MatonOn organizing committee of International Basil Bernstein Symposium for 2010 (Brisbane); co-organizing 2012 symposium (France).Keynote speaker at Higher Education Close Up 6 (Rhodes University, 2012); 39th International Systemic Functional Congress (Sydney, 2012) and 7th International Basil Bernstein Symposium (Provence, 2012).President of Australasian Association of Critical Realism and on Editorial Board of Journal of Critical Realism.Moderator of email discussion forums on Legitimation Code Theory, Bernsteinâs sociology of education and critical realism.Visiting Professor at University of Provence (France) and Rhodes University (South Africa) and Visiting Scholar at University of Cape Town.Co-organiser (with Prof Frances Christie) of Disciplinarity, Knowledge and Language: An international conference, University of Sydney, 8-10 Dec, 2008Co-organiser (with Dr Rob Moore) of Social Realism in Education: An international colloquium, University of Cambridge, July 2008.Susan HoodPlenary Speaker at the 38th International Systemic Functional Congress (Portugal, 2011).Convenor of 39th International Systemic Functional Congress (Sydney, 2012).Life member of Australian Systemic Linguistics Association.Convenor of weekly seminar series in Systemic Functional Linguistics at the University of Sydney for past two years.Co-convener with Karl Maton of seminar series in Legitimation Code Theory at the University of Technology, Sydney for past two years.Guest Professor at the Wuhan Institute of Technology in China.Currently a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.Suellen ShayCo-edited special issue of Studies in Higher Education, coordinating across multiple authors, institutions and countries.Convened Higher Education Close Up 4 international conference (Cape Town, 2008); on organizing committee and Keynote Speaker for Higher Education Close Up 5 (Lancaster, 2010).Member of the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa (HELTASA).Served as acting Dean for the Centre for Higher Education Development at University of Cape Town (2010) and as deputy dean on on-going basis.Regular delegate at international conferences in South Africa, UK and Australia.Rated researcher by the National Research Foundation, South Africa.