'On 2 April 2019, the Victorian Branch of the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) and Monash University organised a panel discussion on the relationships between research, education and professional practice in the Australian recordkeeping field. The panellists included Catherine Nicholls, Records Manager at Monash University and part-time doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University; Katherine Jarvie, Assistant Director, Information Management and Archives at RMIT and part-time doctoral student at Monash University; Wenting Lyu, PhD student in archival science at the School of Information Management, Nanjing University and visiting PhD student in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University; James Hill, recent graduate and 2018 Margaret Jennings Award recipient; and myself as the new General Editor for Archives and Manuscripts.' (Editorial introduction)