Denise Cuthbert is the Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research Training and Development at RMIT and has published extensively on child separation, adoption and family formation; and on higher education policy and practice. She is the author (with Marian Quarly and Shurlee Swain) of The Market in Babies: Adoption in Australia (2013) and with Kate Cregan, Globalised Childhoods: Issues and Debates (2014). Her research on higher education is published in a range of international journals including Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, and Gender and Education. In 2016-2017, she held the elected position of Convenor of the Australian Conuncil of Graduate Research,