Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the Australian Department of Education, Science and Technology’s Higher Education Equity Support Program for funding the project that led to this book, and for the research support provided by Cathi Flynn and Yolande McNicoll. We thank Kate Kirk from Manchester Metropolitan University for the research design, which we adapted for the project at Monash University. We especially thank Alex Carole, Harriet, Lam, Lillian, Marie, Miranda, Rochelle, Sesh, Shannon, Virginia and Zelin for sharing their stories for the benefit of others.