Dr Joyce I-Hui Chen has recently been awarded her PhD in Education Studies. She has been working in different educational sectors for more than 20 years in Taiwan and in the United Kingdom (UK), from primary education to higher education. Her current job role includes initial teacher education, organisational development and teachers’ professional development and learning in a general further education college in England. She is also a chartered teacher who received the advanced teacher’s status in the first cohort in 2018. She has undertaken several practitioner research projects over the last 10 years in the further education sector. Her main research interests are FE policies and practice-focused professional development and learning. She is passionate about connecting and collaborating with practitioners across different educational sectors and has been supporting practitioners with research.