"My presentation was about the critical investigation into mentoring and coaching, something I'm passionate about and something I'm interested in, in which the audience feeds back to me and helps me with my research. Today I presented on the work that we're doing in teacher education around bringing field-based researchers and the expertise from field-based researchers into professional development opportunities for teachers in informal settings like zoos and aquariums and music clubs. My presentation today was looking at navigating the invisible boundaries as a practitioner and a researcher and just based on my doctoral research I'm exploring the professional learning of work-based learning practitioners. My experience here presenting is amazing. I totally enjoy it. I love engaging with the community and I like working with colleagues from different universities globally as well as nationally. They do a great job of bringing together people who are bringing disparate ideas into the presentation and people feel really collaborative and really comfortable sharing with each other so it was really nice. It was with a group of people who have nothing to do with what I do but were able to offer some really interesting insights and build some really interesting connections that I might not have thought about had I been in a different space. Yeah people were asking some really good questions, made some really good comments after the presentation. It was a really nice morning and got some valuable feedback that I'll be taking back into my research as well."