Kathryn Sutherland is Associate Professor in the Centre for Academic Development at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She also served six years as Associate Dean (Students, and Learning & Teaching) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, so has a wide understanding of the challenges facing both staff and students in twenty first century universities. Her research and practice has three main areas of focus: the experiences of early career academics; holistic academic development; and working in partnership with students to improve teaching and learning. Her latest book, Early Career Academics in New Zealand: Challenges and Prospects in Comparative Perspective was published by Springer in 2018. Kathryn served as co-editor of the International Journal for Academic Development for 10 years, and is an award-winning teacher and researcher. In 2018, she was just the sixth New Zealander to become a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and, in 2019, she received the inaugural Distinguished Contribution to the Scholarship of Educational Development award for her article ‘Holistic Academic Development: Is it time to think more broadly about the academic development project?’. Kathryn also enjoys running, and has managed to run (slowly) at least one half-marathon race per year since 2001.