Dr Amy Farndale is a member of UniSA's Centre for Research in Education and Social Inclusion (CRESI). Under her academic title of Early Childhood Language and Literacy Lecturer, she is a researcher who offers research support and consultancy (@ Tafe, CESA, DfE, and Independent schools), a course coordinator, course writer, and tutor within the Literacy/English and Early Childhood Teams specialising in cultural, linguistic and communicative diversity at UniSA. Amy is also a PhD and Masters research supervisor and is a member of several research teams investigating Family Multiliteracies and Emotional Wellbeing in Early Childhood Settings. She co-led the Sea and Vines Oral Language project to support preschoolers' quality verbal exchanges and thinking with Department for Education early childhood leader, Kelly Grear.