Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Running with Ideas -- Venturing Out -- Discovering Your Path -- The Power of Inclusion -- The Power of Feminist Engagement -- The Power of Interaction -- The Power of Collaboration -- Looking Outside the Academy -- Passing the Baton -- Hurdling Academic Obstacles -- Trail Blazing -- Afterword -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index.

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The impetus for this book was a public lecture Laurel Richardson gave in Melbourne in 2006. How and why Laurel Richardson’s writing resonates with so many others led to a qualitative research project investigating the impact of her work. This book is the outcome of that project. The nature of that connection between Richardson’s writing and her readers has been examined. Connections have also been drawn between Laurel Richardson’s writing and the importance of collaboration, community, inclusion, feminist engagement, social justice and the challenges involved in working in the modernised university. This book shows how Laurel Richardson’s groundbreaking work has influenced others and became not only a method of inquiry but also a method of empathy and imagination.