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Joanna Kuchta. Tutor of CCE

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Dr.Bhawna Kunwar is Ph.D. in Hindi literature with Masters of Arts in Hindi and Sanskrit language. She holds a wide teaching experience in India, Uganda (East Africa) and Australia, whereby her most dedicated tutoring started from the roots of a Post-graduate college in India working as an accredited lecturer, followed by her private Hindi coaching classes in Uganda (Kampala). Later privately tutoring in Perth, she is now engaged in private coaching classes in Sydney along with CCE at Sydney University.

Her students acknowledge her as a very patient, thorough and engaging teacher. She uses great adult learning methodologies and a very student oriented teaching style.

She is a well-known Hindi poet in a vast variety of literature techniques including free-verse, haikus and rhythmic poetry. Two of her widely demanded books have been published with other still in process. Also perusing a firm hold on story writing skills with deep literary knowledge of Hindi, she shares her accredited work across the world.

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Susan Kusch. Tutor of CCE

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Mran-Maree Laing. Tutor of CCE

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Judge Paul Lakatos SC commenced his professional career working as a solicitor for the Aboriginal Legal Service in 1977. He continued his work in the Sydney metropolitan area representing indigent clients with the Public Solicitor’s Office from 1978. In 1982 Judge Lakatos SC led a team of investigators including the AFP, ATO investigators and forensic accountants, investigating bottom of the harbour tax schemes at the Special Prosecutors Office. In 1984 he was admitted as a Barrister, practising in Criminal Law; Administrative Law; Appellate Law; Coronial inquiries and before ICAC and the Police Integrity Commission – and as counsel assisting ICAC and the State Coroner. In 2005, Judge Lakatos was appointed as senior counsel and, in 2008, was appointed as a Judge of the District Court of NSW. Judge Paul Lakatos SC commenced as the President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal in 2019, where he oversees its functions. He also sits on Tribunal hearings in both forensic and civil jurisdictions. Most recently, he was appointed an ICAC Commissioner. This appointment will take effect in mid-September 2022.

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Venesa Lalic. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Lisa Lampe is a psychiatrist who has specialised in researching and treating anxiety since 1992. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Sydney Medical School of the University of Sydney, and also has a Senior Staff Specialist (Academic) appointment with the Northern Sydney Local Health District and the CADE Clinic. Lisa is the author of book chapters, research papers, educational papers in professional journals, and numerous workshops, and has appeared on radio and television. The textbook on anxiety disorders written with colleagues from the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD) at St Vincent’s Hospital is widely used and has been translated into 5 other languages; and the DVDs I Think They Think and Fight or Flight? (with Prof Ron Rapee) have also found a wide audience. She has also written books on anxiety and depression for a general audience. Lisa’s patients have taught her a great deal about anxiety over the years, and the journey to control it. The strategies she will share in psychoeducation courses have been developed through the application and testing of research findings in real life with real people.

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Clotilde Landais received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2008, where she specialised in the literary representation of the writer in North American Horror Fiction. Landais has published several articles on this topic in academic journals and she is currently preparing a monograph on metafiction in Stephen King’s works. She also taught literature at Pepperdine University – Switzerland (2009-2010).

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Ari Lander. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Janis Lander is an artist, author and lecturer, based in Sydney. Her doctoral thesis, titled “A Discursive Study of Art and Education in Contemporary Spiritual Systems” was completed at the University of New South Wales in 2012. In 2013 the USA publishers Routledge/Taylor & Francis published a monograph on the research titled “Spiritual Art and Art Education”, in the series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies. Janis lectures on contemporary spiritual concepts and practices, in the context of ontology (theories of being), and aesthetics (theories of art). Janis also teaches practical workshops combining meditation practices with art exercises.