Associate ProfessorChristopher Scanlon

Chris holds a PhD in Politics from Monash University and is a respected journalist, researcher and academic.

Chris has been published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Courier-Mail, The Canberra Times, Crikey, Business Spectator, The Monthly, Overland and Arena Magazine. Between 1999-2009 he served as both a co-editor and the online editor of the highly regarded Arena Magazine.

He co-author of the bestselling [Raising Girls Who Like Themselves](https://www.penguin.com.au/books/raising-girls-who-like-
themselves-9781760894368) and [Bringing up Boys Who Like Themselves](https://www.penguin.com.au/books/bringing-up-boys-who-like-themselves-9780143778738) both co-written with his wife Kasey Edwards and published by Penguin Random House.

Chris has co-authored The Chess Raven Chronicles, a young adult fantasy fiction series with his wife Kasey Edwards under the pen name Violet Grace. The books in the series are [The Girl Who Fell](https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/girl-who-fell) and [The Girl Who
Chose](https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/girl-who-chose), published by Black Inc.

In 2013 he received an Office Learning and Teaching National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for his work in developing
[www.upstart.net.au](http://www.upstart.net.au), a magazine for emerging journalists.