Erin Hopkins
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Erin Hopkins completed her Masters in Education (TESOL) at the University of Sydney in November 2005. She has been an English language teacher for four years, teaching in Australia, Peru and Southern Spain. Prior to language teaching she was a creative writing instructor in the United States. Currently Erin volunteers as a language teacher with the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies' Refugee Language Program. She also works full-time as a student services coordinator for The Institute for Study Abroad-Butler University.John Howard
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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.Antony Howe
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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 ReformationBill Hoyle
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Bill Hoyle. Tutor of CCETom Hubble
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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.Linh Thuy Hubner
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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.