Navé Wald is a Senior Lecturer at the Higher Education Development Centre (HEDC) of the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. His research and teaching are mostly in the areas of assessment practice and critical thinking in higher education, with doctoral studies also being a recent area of interest. Navé’s academic background is in economics and human geography, and his work in the field of higher education is mostly qualitative and includes empirical as well as conceptual/theoretical issues pertaining to both policy and practice.