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Miriam Hansen is associate professor of educational psychology and Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary College for University Teaching at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany. Her research interests include the role of culture, emotions, and motivation in higher education as well as teaching and learning with AI.

Suzanne Le-May Sheffield is the Director of the Centre for Learning and Teaching, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research interests have included graduate student teaching development, educational developer well-being, and informal teaching and learning conversations.

Anna Santucci is associate professor and associate director of the Center of Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. Her interests include participatory art pedagogies, intercultural teaching and learning, and academic development for higher education transformation informed by principles of love, hope, equity, justice, co-creation, reflection, agency, and dialogue.

Roeland van der Rijst is a professor of educational sciences and the director of research at the Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON) at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research focuses on teaching and teacher learning in higher education. He received an honorary fellowship of the Leiden Teachers’ Academy for his teaching and is a board member of the Netherlands Research School for Educational Sciences.