Ligia Pelosi is Senior Lecturer at the College of Arts & Education at Victoria University and has worked in education for over 20 years, with 11 of those spent in higher education. Ligia’s research focuses on Arts-based and narrative methodologies. Ligia's interests in education center on literacy, creativity and narrative research methodologies. Underpinning Ligia’s research are the principles of social justice in education, and she is currently Chief Investigator at National Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools (NETDS).