Judith Hanks is Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Leeds, UK. She has worked as a language teacher, researcher, and teacher educator in China, Italy, Singapore and the UK. In the School of Education, she has been variously: Academic Group Leader, Deputy Director of the Centre for Language Education Research, Head of Undergraduate Area, and has led MA programmes in TESOL and Teacher Education. She is now Chair of the cross-Faculty Research Ethics Committee covering Business, Environment and Social Sciences. Judith is active in Applied Linguistics, having been centrally involved in Exploratory Practice (a form of fully inclusive practitioner research), working with colleagues from Brazil, China, Japan and the UK to develop a framework of principles for language teachers, researchers, and learners, engaged in researching their practice. This culminated in her books The Developing Language Learner: an introduction to Exploratory Practice (Allwright & Hanks, 2009), Exploratory Practice in Language Teaching: puzzling about principles and practices (Hanks, 2017), and Developing Language Teachers with Exploratory Practice: Innovations and explorations in language education (Dikilitas & Hanks (eds), 2018). She is convenor of the AILA Fully Inclusive Practitioner Research Network https://www.fullyinclusivepr.com . Her research interests encompass Practitioner Research, Exploratory Practice, Intercultural issues in Language Education, Teacher Education and CPD, Mentoring and Teacher Wellbeing.