Fiona Longmuir started her role as an Early Career Researcher in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in mid-2018. She currently teaches in the Master of Education, Master of Leadership and Graduate Certificate in Principal Preparation. Her teaching interests are particularly focussed on educational leadership development programs, and she enjoys contributing to the revision of units to ensure current and inspiring content for her students. Her research interests include: school and system leadership that enhance student engagement in education; school improvement practices that are informed by student voice and agency; school-community partnerships that promote social cohesion; and, socio-political influences on school leadership success. Fiona has been an educator for over twenty years. Fiona taught in Victorian government primary schools, and held school leadership positions and leadership responsibility for networks of schools. Since 2009, she has worked as a Consultant Researcher – Director of Research in Innovative Professional Practice for Educational Transformations where she has led, or contributed to, over 20 projects investigating policy and practice in teaching, learning and school leadership throughout Australia and internationally. A significant part of this work was three research programs that investigated alternative educational settings for young people who had disengaged from mainstream education. Fiona completed her doctoral studies at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne in 2017. She was awarded a Melbourne Research Scholarship in support of her study. Her thesis, titled "Principal Leadership in High-Advantage, Improving Victorian Secondary Schools", investigated the leadership of improvement in two schools that served relatively affluent communities that had recent histories of decline and risk of closure. Community advantage had been less well researched, and the findings showed that these communities enabled and supported high levels of innovation and rapid transformation. Ideas that contested traditional arrangements and structures of schooling were embraced and, in fact, attracted students to the schools, which contributed to re-establishment of the schools as viable and successful. The leadership in these contexts was visionary and focussed on the development of student agency. This research contributed to two significant, long-running international research collaborations of the International Successful School Principalship Program (ISSPP) and the International School Leadership Development Network (ISLDN). Fiona has presented her findings at national and international conferences. She has taught in Masters of Educational Management at the University of Melbourne and Masters of Teaching at Deakin University. Fiona has published her research in academic journals and book chapters, authored a number of reports for national and international government agencies and not-for-profit organisations. She also writes regular contributions for ACEL's Resources In Action series.