Jennifer Case is Department Head and professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech in the USA. Previously she was a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, in a position focused on academic development. Her research on the student experience of learning, mainly in science and engineering education, has been widely published. She also researches more broadly in higher education around issues of teaching and learning, curriculum, and relations of higher education to society. Delia Marshall is a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of the Western Cape, with a research interest in undergraduate physics education and higher education studies. She has a particular interest in students' experiences of the transition from high school to university studies and has been very involved in the UWC Science Faculty's extended curriculum programme. Sioux McKenna is the director of Postgraduate Studies at Rhodes University where she also coordinates the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning PhD programme. She researches a variety of issues related to higher education but has a particular interest in who it is that gets access to the powerful knowledge of the academy. She has supervised a number of postgraduate studies focused on social justice in the university.