Dr. Darron Kelly began teaching with the Faculty of Education at Memorial University in 2006 and was appointed Assistant Professor in May 2016. He began life in Yorkshire, England in the inaugural year of Generation X. After several years spent working in construction and operating a fishing charter at Granville Island, Vancouver, Darron returned to university where he completed a B.A. in Philosophy and Classical Studies at Mount Allison. He then earned a B.Ed. in Primary/Elementary and Outdoor Education and a M.Ed. in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. While teaching at the Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge, he completed a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at Memorial in 2014 under the supervision of Dr. Jean Brown and Dr. Walter Okshevsky. Darron is an award-winning, SSHRC-funded scholar who examines applications of critical social theory in educational administration (including communicative rationality, transformative leadership, and moral policymaking) and explores the educational value of place-conscious pedagogy (including teacher identity, school-community partnerships, and transformative student agency).