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Stuart Pearson is currently a Year 6 teacher at The Scots College Preparatory School. With over 12 years teaching experience in a range of settings including gifted education and scholarship tutoring, he is a versatile teacher who loves engaging students with rich learning experiences and catering for a wide range of learning styles. Having spent time in private business, Stuart brings to his teaching a wealth of life experience and a special interest in both History and Mathematics. Stuart is a highly experienced practitioner, particularly in Boys education and upper Primary classes.

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Alessandra brings a blend of research and teaching experience in political theory, international relations, and cross-cultural studies, consolidated through her academic and professional capacities at the Australian National University, Bond University, and university study abroad programs in Seville, Spain. She graduated from Bond University in 2002 with a Master of International Relations, specialising in Middle Eastern studies and global governance, as well as completing a dissertation entitled 'State, society and economy in the Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: Muammar al-Qaddafi’s Revolutionary Struggle'. She has since lectured and tutored, nationally and internationally, in Middle Eastern studies (politics, history, religion, society), concepts of global governance, international relations, and Australian studies, and received an Excellence in Teaching Award (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) whilst lecturing at Bond University.

Multi-lingual, internationally educated and an avid traveller, with an ardent appreciation for cultural and linguistic diversity, Alessandra is a passionate educator and facilitator, and thrives in learning environments where knowledge-sharing and critical reflection and discussion abound.

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Artist Sue Pedley lectures in drawing at the University of Sydney. She has a Masters of Fine Art and has had numerous residencies in London, France, Germany, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. Sue represented Australia in the Echigo Tsumari Triennial 2006 in Japan and has a major exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne in 2007.

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Mira Peles-Haneman. Tutor of CCE

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Alec Pemberton taught and researched in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy until recently. His interests centre on the study of social problems (poverty, mental illness, crime, demonization of the vulnerable and marginal) and social theory. He is presently writing a book Putting Politics Back In To Religion, on the relevance of the New Testament parables to contemporary social issues.

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Tom has more than 30 years' experience in international investment evaluation, engineering and project management of major capital investment projects in multiple commodities. Tom has recently worked with major organisations to develop governance structures, capital investment processes and provide independent value assurance services. In the role of Vice President Investments, at BHP Billiton, he provided decision support to the investment committee. His capital intensive experience spans major mining, infrastructure and transport investments.

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Leticia has been teaching English as a second language and Portuguese to foreigners since 1998. She has lived in various countries including England, where she took the ESOL Cambridge CELTA, Spain where she learnt Spanish, and in the USA where she completed a Master’s degree in TESOL and was a lecturer in Portuguese in the Master’s Program of International Relations at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Leticia currently lives in Sydney and teaches Portuguese at the University of Sydney. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a Masters in Languages and a Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese and English Literatures.

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• PhD in Linguistics (Brazil)
• M.A. In TESOL (Philadelphia, USA)
• M.A. In Linguistics (Brazil)

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Elisabetta Peruzzi is currently a full-time PhD student at the University of Sydney at the Department of Performance Studies. She graduated in Comparative Languages and Cultures in Italy (MA) and in Teaching Italian as Second and Foreign Language in an Intercultural Perspective (MA). Elisabetta has been teaching Italian since 2011, year in which she began collaborating with some Italian Institutes of languages in Rimini and with the Italian Institute of Culture of Moscow. She is currently teaching Italian in some local institutes in Sydney.

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Tricia has ten years of experience in business improvement, finance, analytics and digital product management across the infrastructure, energy, international trade and aviation industry. Tricia’s teaching career started in 2019 as an academic staff member for the University of Sydney’s Faculty of International Business. In the same year, she began facilitating Power BI and Tableau workshops from beginner to advanced level.

Tricia holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (Hons) and a Master of International Business. She has been a member of Engineers Australia since 2013, a recipient of the USYD Business Leaders Scholarship from 2015-2017, an ambassador for the University of Sydney Faculty of International Business (2017) and a lifetime member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honour Society.

Tricia is an advocate for lifelong and multidisciplinary learning. She also loves teaching and enjoys breaking down challenging concepts for her students.

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Roberto Pettini holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Italian, as well as a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree from the University of Sydney. In 1987, Roberto began teaching for the UNSW Institute of Languages where he is currently the Senior Italian Teacher. From 1997, he started to teach regularly at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education where he remains today. Roberto incorporates the most up-to-date teaching practices enabling the participants to gain competency in the Italian language, as well as experiencing the essence of being in Italy. Roberto is also very interested in promoting Italian culture. He actively collaborates in organising Italian cultural events on a regular basis in Sydney and elsewhere in NSW. His publications include The Ladies of Albion Street, an account of the experiences of a group of Italian migrant women, as well as Sydney and the Italian Touch, an oral history book on the impact of Italian migrants on Sydney in the past 50 years. He has also written numerous journal articles on his travels.