Karl Maton is A/Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney in Australia and Honorary Professor at Rhodes University in South Africa.Karl Maton is the creator of Legitimation Code Theory, which emerged as a framework for the study of knowledge and education and is now being used to analyse a growing range of social and cultural practices across increasingly different institutional and national contexts, both within and beyond education.http://www.legitimationcodetheory.comhttps://www.facebook.com/legitimationcodetheoryKarl's book 'Knowledge and Knowers' was released in August 2013 and is now in paperback. The sequel 'Knowledge-building', which shows how to enact LCT in research, was published in October 2015.