Bernadette is a sessional Religious Education and Maths lecturer and tutor at ACU in Melbourne as well as a secondary Religious Education and Maths teacher at Our Lady of Mercy College, Heidelberg. She is also a Study Specialist for VCE Religion and Society at VCAA and has been an assessor for both VCE Religion and Society and VCE Texts and Tradition as different times. Her doctoral and subsequent research and publication has focused on Communities of Practice particularly in relation to early career teachers in both rural and urban contexts and within inclusive of Social Learning Spaces that can arise within social media such Facebook and Twitter. She is currently researching the value of Twitter chats for primary and secondary school teachers. Bernadette is an ACEL New Voice scholar (2019) and has been on the editorial board of ACEL. She is also actively involved in a parish as a lector and children's liturgy leader.