Dr Karena Menzie-Ballantyne is a Senior Lecturer and teacher-educator based at CQ University Australia’sBundaberg campus. Karena co-leads Empower,a research cluster of academics, PhD and Masters students from Australia,Indonesia, Pakistan and Malaysia, that specialises in practically-oriented,evidence-based research into educationfor global citizenship/global competence and sustainable developmentat system, school and classroom levels.

Karena’s current research includes: working as a critical friend for theQueensland Department of Education International’s Global Competence Pilot;working with academic and education department personnel in Queensland, New Zealand and England to explore how the education for global citizenship/global competence agenda is being rollout across the respective contexts; andconducting an international Delphi study to explore the intent and terminologyused by teacher educators and trainers in the field of global education