Dewa Wardak is a lecturer in educational development with the Business Co-Design team. She is a learning scientist and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Before joining the Business Co-Design team, Dewa was a teacher educator at the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, where she was a member of Professor Peter Goodyear's ARC Laureate Team. Dewa’s main areas of interest are learning and teaching in higher education, educational development, networked learning, pattern languages, object-based learning, and multimodal approaches to the analysis of learning and teaching. Outside university, she has been a volunteer working on community projects and is passionate about supporting and mentoring women from diverse and refugee backgrounds to attain higher education qualifications.