"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.
  • Formerly Associate Professor at University of Southern Queensland where she:
    • was Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Education
    • taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervised doctoral research
    • won national research grants including ARC and three consecutive grants for the National Project on Professional Development
    • won a University Award for Excellence in Scholarship
    • won a National Award for Excellence in Practice, Design and Delivery of Open and Distance Learning
  • Member of the Qld Board of Teacher Registration Working Party on Literacy in Preservice teacher education.
  • Co-author of the 2001 Board of Teacher Registration document, Literacy in Teacher Education: Standards for Preservice Programs, 2001.
  • Director of the Literate Futures Project for Education Queensland a state-wide professional development initiative for all teachers, 2001.
  • Principal Adviser Literate Futures Project 2002 - 2004.
  • Authored Literate Futures: Reading (2002) and other material for Education Queensland.
  • Member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for Education Renewal (Qld) 2002.
  • Consultant to the writing of the Queensland Years 1-10 English Syllabus 2004.
  • Former editor Australian Journal of Language and Literacy , currently on Editorial Board.
  • Former office holder Darling Downs Council of the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association.
  • 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).
  • Taught in the states of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland in country and city schools and state and private systems.