Julia Verdouw, an Honorary Associate at AC, has a long association with AC through her role as senior lecturer at the National Institute for Christian Education. She has extensive research experience in local, state and national research projects, research project management, program evaluation, and policy development. Working in collaborative partnerships, she has contributed to community, federal, state and local government and industry solutions in the areas of affordable housing, housing policy outcomes, and building sustainable communities, including for remote Indigenous communities. More recently her research work has focused on professional learning in education practice. Her teaching background includes a range of undergraduate and postgraduate research methods, research design and qualitative research courses, and volunteering in sociology. Julia gained her PhD in sociology at the University of Tasmania with a thesis focusing on the good life, money and morality. As an educator focused on research, she is interested in education and research philosophies that develop whole-person formation, and in developing new paradigms for educational research. Julia is a member of the Holistic Human Health research cluster.