Acknowledgements
The editors and contributors acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which the work for this volume has taken place. RMIT University’s city campus in Melbourne, Australia, is on the unceded lands of Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation. RMIT University, and we all, respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present, and we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct the business of RMIT University.
The editors of this volume, A Skilled Hand and a Cultivated Mind: A Culture of Learning and Teaching at RMIT University, are all members of the Social and Global Studies Centre (SGSC). While the chapters reflect some key interests and areas of expertise of the SGSC theme group on Language, Culture and International Education (LCIE), to which most of the editors belong, contributors of chapters are by no means only of LCIE. Indeed, we are delighted to have contributing authors from well beyond the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (in which the Centre sits), and beyond the College of Design and Social Context (in which the School sits). The editors would like to acknowledge the positive and collegial environments which have made this volume both possible and so rewarding to bring together, and we greatly appreciate the academics who reviewed chapters and provided insightful and gratefully received feedback. Even though this volume took shape during the challenging years of 2020 to 2022, this volume served as a thread – one of many – that connected us and, we hope, will continue to connect us into the future.
We are also very pleased and excited that this volume is among the first academic books to published by our university’s new publishing venture, RMIT Open Press. As an open access book, it is available online without cost, thus facilitating access to the insights of the chapters within. The editors of this volume are grateful to the assistance and support of the RMIT Library in bringing this book to their new platform. We also appreciate the fact that our university supports efforts towards open access publishing. The costs of creating a price-free book are of course borne somewhere, and we acknowledge that the RMIT’s support of open access provides vital resources for such publishing. With specific regards to the present volume, the editors would also like to express their gratitude to the Social and Global Studies Centre for funding provided in 2022, which made it possible for this volume to be professionally edited.
