"Seeing people’s renewed enthusiasm for teaching is our ultimate reward."
"Observing teachers’ excitement as they share their action learning projects is inspirational."
  • Currently co-director of ABC: Anstey & Bull Consultants in Education.
  • Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland where he:
    • was a Program Head
    • taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in literacy and children’s literature
    • founded the Language and Literacy Research Unit
    • developed the first postgraduate courses in children’s literature
    • supervised research
    • won the University award for Excellence in Research
    • won national research grants including an ARC grant and three grants for the National Project on Professional Development
  • Former national president of the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association.
  • Founding member of the Australian Literacy Federation (ALF).
  • Awarded the Inaugural Medal for Excellence in leadership, administration and promotion of the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association.
  • Member of the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Language and Literacy.
  • Author for the Literate Futures Project for Education Queensland 2002.
  • Consultant to the Queensland Years 1-10 English Syllabus 2004.
  • Research and writing informed the materials for the Early Literacy Inservice Course (ELIC), the Further Literacy Inservice Project (FLIP) and the Queensland Writing Project (QWP).
  • Trained as a consultant in the Effective Reading in the Content Areas (ERICA) and Learning to Learn Through Reading (LTLTR) programs.
  • Member of the Qld Board of Teacher Registration Working Party on Literacy in Preservice Teacher Education.
  • Co-author of the Board of Teacher Registration document, Literacy in Teacher Education: Standards for Preservice Programs, 2001.
  • Former teacher and teacher-librarian in state Schools throughout country Queensland.