Gaston Bacquet Quiroga is an associate tutor at the University of Glasgow, where he is a dissertation supervisor for the School of Education and a seminar leader on the MSc/Med programmes in educational studies. He is also a second-year PhD student in education; his research focuses on decolonial, non-violent approaches to classroom practices in higher education. He has a background as a second-language teacher, and has taught in Chile, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Myanmar and the UK.