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MSc BA (Hons) QTS. ISTAA Experienced Teacher and NSW Institute of Teachers Professional Competence accredited Year Coordinator, Business Studies, Commerce and Geography teacher Gavin joined a large Independent School in the Eastern Suburbs at the start of 2005 to teach predominantly Business Studies and Commerce. He has a Masters Degree in Business Information Technology, providing him with highly valued insights into the use of ICT in the classroom. Whilst teaching at many different schools in the UK, Gavin developed an enterprise education program which has been successfully introduced to the Preliminary Business Studies Course at Moriah. This practical approach known as “Enterprise Day” has allowed the students to run their own business for a day. Gavin is also a Year Coordinator at this school and relishes the student welfare issues that arise in this role. He is also a HSC marker in Business Studies and has also been a Director of the Economics and Business Educators Association of NSW since 2007 and was the NSW Co-ordinator of the program “Plan Your Own Enterprise”. Due to arriving in Australia after 2004, he has also fulfilled the expectations from the NSW Institute of Teachers Professional Competence levels as well as completing the ISTAA Experienced Teacher requirements. Currently he is co-writing a Year 11 Business Studies textbook.

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Sydney born, Suzanne Rutland is Professor in the department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. Her major history of Australian Jewry, Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia, was first published in 1988 and has had two subsequent editions (Collins, 1988; Brandl and Schlesinger, 1997, Holmes and Meier, New York, 2001) and her latest publication is The Jews in Australia published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press. She has held numerous leadership positions, including being a past president of the Australian Jewish Historical Society. She has been a convenor of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies on a number of occasions.

Professor Rutland was awarded an OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) for service to Jewish education and history through a range of higher education development roles and as an author and academic, and to the promotion of interfaith relations. In 2011 Professor Rutland was listed as one of the 50 most influential Jews in Australia.

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Rod Rutledge. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Juanita Feros Ruys is Associate Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre at the University of Sydney and a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions. Her PhD was on the modern reception of the medieval woman Heloise. Her research interests include the writings of medieval women, texts by medieval parents for their children, and medieval and early modern didactic literature in general. She is the editor or co-editor of four volumes of essays dealing with medieval literature (Maistresse of My Wit, What Nature Does Not Teach, Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period, and The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom). She is currently completing a book on the late poetic works of Abelard (The Repentant Abelard) and her next book will focus on the emotional life of demons in the Middle Ages.

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Myriam Sableaux. Tutor of CCE

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Emilia was born in Spain and moved to Australia in 1992. She studied an Arts degree at the University of Madrid, an Education degree at Leiden University (Holland), and later, a postgraduate degree in Modern Language Teaching and a Masters in TESOL, both from the University of Sydney.

Emilia has been teaching Spanish for most of her professional career. She has taught at the University of Sydney since 1993, and has also delivered courses in Spanish at UNSW and UTS for the past two years. Emilia is an eager learner of various languages and loves teaching. She looks forward to continuing teaching for many years to come.

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I gained my MA in Applied Linguistics both in Japan and Australia. My teaching experience ranges from teaching EFL at junior college in Japan, Interpreting at Southbank TAFE, and JFL at Griffith University. I had also been running my own language school teaching English through Western Cooking in Japan.

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In 2012 George will be presenting in Philosophy at Central Coast Community College and Sydney University’s Centre for Continuing Education. George has a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, a BA Degree majoring in Philosophy and Government with distictions in Fine Arts and Performing Studies, and a Diploma in Drama. For the past 11 years he has been concentrating on tutoring, especially overseas, mainly in China, Zhengzhou (Henan Provence) privately with university students. George has also tutored with Petersham TAFE, and aspiring actors. From 1974 he has been a professional actor in major films, television and theatre, and a theatrical director/producer.

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Juana-Blanca Salio is an experienced teacher who has been teaching Spanish language and culture for almost 30 years. She has been a Lecturer at the South Bank University in London for 9 years, and since coming to Sydney has been working at a number of places including: the University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education (CCE), the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), NSW University, and the University of Sydney for the last 16 years. She is also an experienced HSC marker for the Board of Studies.

Juana-Blanca holds a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities with a double major in Human Geography and History from the University of Oviedo in Spain, and has completed several Diplomas including one in Education. She started teaching adults and workers in Spain post Franco regime, then London and finally Sydney.

Juana-Blanca loves her profession and especially enjoys being involved with students and helping them to not only learn the Spanish language, but also to understand how the Spanish language works.

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With a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Western Australia and a PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Amanda leads a research team at the University of Sydney’s Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders. Amanda’s research into hypothalamic control of appetite, body weight and body composition aims to help more people to lose excess weight and keep it off. Her translational research spans studies with transgenic mice to randomized controlled trials in humans. Amanda’s current research is funded by NHMRC-funded project grants totalling over $1.8 million, and she is supported by an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship. Photo: mlai.org