Conducting educational research in rural Australia: Learning about ethnic diversity in partnership

This paper presents findings from collaborative self-study through which the authors reflect and interrogate their journey of becoming rural education researchers. Discussions of professional identity, rurality, social justice and intercultural sensitivity are included. The authors speak from disparate research experiences and perspectives, revealing points of both similarity and disconnect. In sharing and contrasting research experiences in Australia and the Asia Pacific region they highlight how place, culture, tradition, history, expectation and demographics intersect and impact upon how a rural research context is defined, read and how research is performed.