Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki (Finland). He specialises in interculturality in education, the sociology of multiculturalism and international mobilities in education and has published widely in different languages on identity, the ‘intercultural’ and mobility/migration. His latest books include: ‘Intercultural Communication Education: ‘Interculturality in Fragments: A reflexive Perspective’ (Dervin, Springer, 2022) and ‘Interculturality, Reflexivity and Criticality in Teacher Education’ (Dervin, Cambridge University Press, 2023). Exploring the politics of interculturality within and beyond the ‘canon’ of intercultural communication education research has been one of Professor Dervin’s priorities in his work.   Ning Chen is Lecturer at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (China) and Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr Chen specialises in diversity in higher education. His publications focus on intercultural teacher training and education, well-being in Chinese higher education and the interplay between internationalisation of universities and interculturality. His latest books include: ‘Interculturality Between East and West: Unthink, Dialogue, and Rethink’ (with Dervin et al., Springer, 2022) and ‘Change and Exchange in Global Education: Learning with Chinese Stories of Interculturality’ (with Yuan, Dervin and Sude, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).