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John Howard (BA, MA(Couns), MClinPsych, DipCrim, PhD, MAPS) joined the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) in 2008 as a Senior Lecturer and works with the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, as well as NDARC’s international research activities and those with a focus on young people. He has worked in schools, juvenile justice, adolescent mental health and drug treatment, and universities. John is a consultant Clinical Psychologist and his major clinical, teaching and research areas are: adolescent substance use and ‘street youth’, comorbidity, depression and suicide in young people, working with marginalised youth and those with multiple and complex needs, adolescent psychotherapy, same-sex attracted youth, HIV infection in adolescents, resilience, youth treatment capacity-building and developing ‘youth friendly’ harm reduction. He consults to WHO, UNICEF, UNODC and UNESCAP on capacity-building for community treatment of young drug users and increasing access to harm reduction services for young injecting drug users. International work has taken him to Nepal, China, Thailand Viet Nam, Lao PDR, India, Philippines, Egypt and South Africa.

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Dr Antony Howe holds a PhD in History from the University of Sydney (on the propaganda uses of medieval and modern history by the British Communist Party). He has lectured on history (1400s to 1600s) at the University of Western Sydney and at Sydney University. More recently he designed and ran a World History M.A. course at Macquarie University. Antony has also taught courses for the Centre since 1995, including the history of the Papacy, warfare from the 1400s, and on English history, and the European Renaissance and Reformation

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Bill Hoyle. Tutor of CCE

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Tom Hubble’s research has been mainly in the field of marine and riverine site investigation including a major regional geomorphic and sediment mapping project on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River for Sydney Water. Current research projects include: the characterisation of the mass collapse mechanisms which are currently affecting the banks of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River in order to develop a remediation and prevention strategy; and, the evaluation the various stabilising mechanisms that trees and their root systems develop in soil slopes.

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Dr. Linh Thuy Hubner was born in central Vietnam and was educated there to the level of Master of Arts in Linguistics at Hue University of Sciences (2009). She then successfully completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Queensland (2014) and with her husband and young son, now calls Sydney home.

Linh has a strong background and in language teaching having taught in tertiary institutions in Vietnam and Thailand for six years before coming to Australia in 2012 to undertake her Doctoral studies. She has a particular interest in teaching Vietnamese language and in the process sharing elements of her cultural background with her students.

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Sarah Hudspith. Tutor of CCE

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Samuel Huet holds a MA in teaching French as a foreign language from Paris-V University, Paris and a Masters of Asia-Pacific Studies from the Australian National University, Canberra. He has combined these two passions by teaching French at the Alliance Francaise in Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and Canberra. He has also lectured at ANU and at the State Islamic University in Malang, Indonesia. Samuel currently works as a researcher/writer for Amnesty International and as a part time French language teacher for the Centre.

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Melissa Hulme is a registered psychologist who has worked with parents and students across the health, education and community sectors, to help them to identify and manage anxiety disorders alongside many other conditions, most commonly within the context of a disruptive behaviour that gets noticed! She currently works primarily in a research role at Westmead Hospital’s Perinatal Psychiatry Clinic. She has an active interest in childhood trauma and dynamic-attachment-based approaches to treatment, and has a good grounding in cognitive behavioural skills. Melissa has conducted evaluation of Arndell School’s program and published in the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

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I have been a teacher of academic literacy for nearly twenty years in Australia and internationally. I worked for many years at the Learning Centre at the University of Sydney supporting undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of faculties. I recently completed a PhD in literacy education and, in addition to my work teaching Study Skills at the Centre for Continuing Education am working as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

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Dr Lynette Hung is a clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience in clinical psychology research and over 6 years of experience in psychology practice. She received her postgraduate qualifications from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where she completed a PhD and Master of Clinical Psychology. She currently holds a Research Fellowship in the School of Psychology UNSW, works in private practice and is an affiliated clinician at the Traumatic Stress Clinic (Westmead Hospital and UNSW).

Lynette specialises in the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders in adults, children, and adolescents and works with clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Her main research interests include anxiety, anger, and dissociative processes; she has been involved in research investigating the development of various mental health disorders as well as clinical trials examining the effectiveness of different treatments for PTSD and Complicated Grief. She has also been actively involved in teaching, training and supervising early-career clinical psychology researchers.

Lynette has published in several peer-reviewed journals and presented her research at national and international conferences. She has also won several national and international awards for her work, including a prize from the American Psychological Association for her research on dissociative processes.