Clinton Golding is an associate professor in the Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand, and the past chair of the New Zealand branch of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. One aspect of his work is to empower and support supervisors and postgraduate students. As well as researching postgraduate research learning, his current research topics include education for thinking, interdisciplinarity, educational theory and praxis, and using student evaluations to improve teaching.