Dr Brett Shipton is a police educator and academic, who lives in Crookwell or Gundangurra country as described by First Nations Peoples. Prior to his academic career, Brett worked as a police officer in general and highway patrol duties. He also spent time as a police educator in uniform, an education officer in corrections and as a college teacher. During the past 16 years as an academic, he has taught face to face, online and distance modes of learning and teaching, along with key roles in learning and assessment design and management within police academies. During this time, Brett has regularly published his scholarly work in relation to police education, including his PhD, which examined the teaching and teaching development experiences of police educators from across five Australian police academies. Brett currently designs and delivers criminal justice and policing subjects in an undergraduate program and supervises doctoral students in policing research. He plans to conduct further research in the area of policing and police education.