Linda Hobbs has taught science education at the tertiary level since 2002. Prior to that Linda taught Science in secondary schools. Conferred in 2009, her PhD explored the effect of subject culture on the ways teahers conceptualised teaching; out-of-field teaching emerged as an issue requiring further research in Australia. Since then, Linda has undertaken various research projects relating to teachers' experiences of teaching out-of-field, the influence of context, support and teachers' personal resources on perceptions of feeling out-of-field, how teacher education programs prepare teachers for out-of-field teaching, and the policy climate relating to the issue. With funding for an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2015-2017) Linda is part of a team (from Deakin, University of New England, University of Queensland and Monash University) exploring the learning needs and school cultures supporting teachers new to mathematics and science teaching, including out-of-field teachers. Linda convenes an international collaborative exploring this issue (https://www.uni-due.de/TAS/)