Lia Bryant is Professor of Sociology at Adelaide University who specialises in the fields of gender and rurality, codesign and creative methods. She has over 100 publications and has co-authored Gender and Rurality (2011) and Water and Rural Communities: Local Meanings, Politics and Place (2016). Bryant has also edited and co-edited the following collections: Sexuality, Rurality and Geography (2012), Critical and Creative Research Methodologies in Social Work (2015), Walking on the Grass, Women Supervising and Writing Doctoral Theses (2015) and Social Work in a Glocalised World (2017).