Peter Goodyear is a professor of education at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on educational design, learning spaces, networked learning and professional education. His most recent books are Epistemic fluency and professional education (with Lina Markauskaite, 2017), Place-based spaces for networked learning (with Lucila Carvalho and Maarten de Laat, 2017), Spaces of teaching and learning (with Rob Ellis, 2018) and The education ecology of universities (with Rob Ellis, 2019). In 2010, the Australian Research Council awarded Peter a Laureate Fellowship – the first awarded to anyone in education. From 2006 to 2012, he led the Research Development portfolio on the executive of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). Before moving to Sydney in 2003, Peter held a personal chair in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University. He was head of department at Lancaster from 1994–1997. He has also held academic positions in Belfast, London and Birmingham.