This special edition of Limina is a selection of papers originally presented at our 7th Annual Conference, held at the University of Western Australia (UWA) on the 7th of June 2012. Four papers were subsequently rewritten and refereed for publication. The conference was organised around the theme of 'Humanising Collaboration' and the papers presented truly pushed that notion to its limits. In recent times collaboration has become quite the buzzword, especially in academic circles.