Gilbert Burgh is an honorary associate professor in philosophy in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. He has published widely on democratic education, civics and citizenship education, and dialogic pedagogy. His books include Philosophical Inquiry with Children: The Development of an Inquiring Society in Australia (2019) (with Simone Thornton), Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty: Place-responsive Learning (2022) (also with Thornton) and Ethics and the Community of Inquiry: Education for Deliberative Democracy (2006) (with Terri Field and Mark Freakley).