Rachael Dwyer (PhD) is a Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy at University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She is an experienced educator and researcher concerned with ensuring that all students have opportunities to participate in quality music and arts education as part of their schooling. Rachael’s teaching experience has extended across P-12 music classrooms, as well as over a decade of experience as a teacher educator. Rachael's integrated research, advocacy and teaching work has focused on the ways in which teachers’ values and beliefs are effectively leveraged for social change through arts-based research methods and pedagogies. Arts education and arts-based methods allow collaborative, applied work drawing on rich and longitudinal relationships with participants, communities and other stakeholders.