Resume

Kate Mountain. Tutor of CCE

Resume

Beate Mueller. Tutor of CCE

Resume

Sharon Joy Mullin. Tutor of CCE

Resume

With tertiary qualifications in Alcohol and Other Drugs Work and Mental Health, Edan has been managing offenders within Corrective Services NSW since 2007. Edan has extensive experience working with offenders as a Community Corrections Officer, Unit Leader and Group Work Facilitator

Edan has a passion for working with AOD offenders and has facilitated group programs targeting AOD and Domestic Violence on a regular basis. He has worked extensively with AOD offenders in a variety of settings and employs hands on practical training to ensure that workers are provided with the appropriate knowledge and skills when engaging with clients.

Edan is presently located at the Operational Community Programs Training Unit at Brush Farm Corrective Services Academy as a Learning and Development Facilitator. In this role, Edan is responsible for the training of First Year Officers in all aspects of the Certificate IV in Correctional Practice and specialises in the training of the CSNSW AOD and Motivational Interviewing courses. He is presently in re-writing the training package for CSNSW Working With AOD Offenders and parts of the CSNSW Certificate IV in Correctional Practice.

Resume

Susan Muranty is an award-winning poet and lyricist whose love of words is matched only by her passion for music. A past winner of Australia’s Banjo Paterson Prize for Verse and winner of the Lyrics Only category at the 2009 Australian Songwriter’s Conference (ASC), Susan’s journey to song-writing has been a rapid and exciting one. Working in her preferred genres of Pop, Folk, Adult Contemporary and World, she has worked with a who’s who of gifted musicians, combining her natural talent for word, story and melody with the musicality of such wonderful performers and songwriters as John and Rick Brewster Of The Angels and Ritchie Neville of Five. In the past two years, her songs have won numerous awards, placing in the finals of such prestigious competitions as the International Songwriting Competition (ISC), the Great American Song Contest, The UK Songwriting Competition and the Australian Songwriters' Association (ASA) National Songwriting Competition.

Resume

Jacqueline Murguet holds an MA, 1st class honours from the Universite Paris, Sorbonne and currently lectures in the French Department at Sydney University. She has extensive French language teaching experience having worked in Australia, New Zealand and France for numerous organisations such as TAFE, local community colleges and at both Sydney and Wellington University.

Resume

Olivia Murphy. Tutor of CCE

Resume

Craig Murray. Tutor of CCE

Resume

Ray Murray is an educational psychologist who works as a Disability Consultant and Facilitator. For the last five years he worked in Ireland teaching Person Centredness to disability organisations assisting them to transform their services. He also provided professional supervision to Early Intervention Specialists/Educators. Ray has delivered the Facilitation Skills course at Trinity College, Dublin and in Cork, Galway and London. In his approach to facilitation he has been influenced by John Herron (The Facilitator’s Handbook, 1989) and Dale Hunter (The Art of Facilitation, 2007) and her colleagues from Zenergy, New Zealand. In the leadership he gave at the Centre for Special Education at Auckland College of Education he promoted Facilitative Teaching (Espiner, Murray & O’Brien, 1997) and Action Methods for the delivery of the degree Bachelor of Social Science (Human Services) and other courses. Ray is currently involved in the delivery of Parent Support Programmes and the training of Person Centred Champions at the Centre for Disability Studies.

Resume

Metin Mustafa is a historian specialising in Ottoman and Islamic art history. He holds a PhD in Ottoman Renaissance art from The University of Notre Dame Australia and Bachelor of Education in Humanities from The University of Sydney. The author taught History and Teaching Methodology at The University of Notre Dame Australia, Charles Sturt University and Australian Catholic University. He currently teaches Ottoman and Islamic history at The University of Sydney Centre for Continuing Education and is the founding member of Centre for Ottoman Renaissance and Civilisation. His research interests include the idea of many renaissances and cross-cultural interactions in the early modern Mediterranean world between the Ottomans and Europeans. Metin Mustafa is the author of the monographs, The Ottoman Renaissance: A Reconsideration of Early Modern Ottoman art, 1413-1575 and History of Ottoman Renaissance Art: From Mehmed II to Selim II. He is also the author of Michelangelo meets Sinan: Representations of the Divine, Salvation, and Paradise in Renaissance Art, The Mediterranean Zeitgeist: Re-Orienting the Renaissance (Essays Series), Renaissance Women: Nuns, Sultanas, and Queens Legitimising Female Sovereignty (Essays Series), The Ottoman Renaissance and the Early Modern World, 1400-1699 (Essays Series Complete Edition), and The Divine Comedy’ of Süleyman Çelebi and Mir Heidar: A Sufi Mystical Reading of Early Modern Turkic Representations of Prophet Muhammad's 'Isra' and 'Mir'aj'. The author is currently working on his forthcoming book, Oriental Imaginings, Occidental Fashioning: Turquerie, Tulip Age and Ottoman Modernity, 1683-1867.

Dr Mustafa has presented at numerous history conferences on cross-cultural interactions in the early modern period. Conference topics include: Ottoman Renaissance Material Culture in Early Modern Europe, Renaissance Self-Fashioning of Süleyman the Magnificent, Representations of the Divine and Salvation: An Alternative Reading of Sinan’s Iznik tiles of Rustem Pasha Mosque and Michelangelo’s Last Judgement – A Testament of Parallel Renaissance Legacy, History and gender in Sultan Murad III’s Surname-i Hümayun 1582, Islam, Ottoman Turks and Orientalism, and Abraham: Our Ancestor – Judaism, Christianity and Islam.