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Silvia Sposini. Tutor of CCE

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Educated at the Universities of Sydney and Oxford and appointed as Australia’s first Professor of Poetry and Poetics in 2011, Barry Spurr is the longest-serving member of the Department of English (appointed to a lectureship in 1976) and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators. His published research and teaching are focused on Early Modern poetry (John Donne and John Milton) and on the Modernists, especially T.S. Eliot, on whose life and work he is a leading authority. Professor Spurr’s recent study (2010) of Eliot’s Christianity is the standard account of the subject. He is also the author of books on poetic representations of the Virgin Mary from the Medieval period to today; on Studying Poetry (now in its second edition); and on Lytton Strachey’s prose works and on liturgical language, and of numerous chapters, refereed articles and encyclopedia entries on poets and poetry across the centuries. He is currently preparing commissioned chapters for three volumes from Oxford and Cambridge University Presses on Tractarian religious poetry, The Waste Land and Eliot’s religious vision. Professor Spurr is in demand as a media commentator and public lecturer, and is delivering a series of lectures on The Great Poems at the Centre for Continuing Education in 2015.

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Michael Sribney brings a dynamic blend of hands-on expertise and visionary leadership based on experience in diverse industries including education, financial services and travel.  

Michael has an unwavering passion for leveraging technology to understand and solve complex customer problems.  Throughout his career, Michael has thrived in high-profile roles at renowned organisations like the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Qantas, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  

Michael's approach to product management puts the customer at the heart of every decision and relies on data-driven insights to navigate the ever-changing landscape and deliver solutions that solve customer problems and deliver substantial business value. 

Michael shares his expertise through teaching at the prestigious University of Sydney, actively contributes to the start-up ecosystem as a mentor at the renowned Stone & Chalk incubator and takes on a leadership role as a council lead at the Association of Product Professionals, driving industry-wide product management best practices. 

Michael’s holds a Master of Commerce from the University of Western Sydney, as well as certifications in product management, human-centered design, cloud computing, agile delivery and successfully completed the Company Directors Course.

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Dr Meenakshi was born in Bangalore, India, and from an early age has been involved in studying and teaching Vedanta, the Upanisads, the Bhagavad Gita, and Indian philosophy; and since 1987 has taught Sanskrit and Hindi in a number of organizations. During the course of her career Meena has performed in and produced classical and semi-classical plays and dramas incorporating the disciplines of Ashwaghosha who wrote Buddhacaritam (Buddha’s life history), and plays of Bhasa and dramas of Kalidasa. She was a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Sanskrit at C B Bhandari Jain College and Bhagavan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore, India, and was actively involved in promoting the study and knowledge of the Vedanta, Arthashastra and Alankara texts to students of all walks of life, including from orphanages to universities. At the same time Dr Meenakshi was co-ordinator and tutor for Samskrita Bharati Distance Education programme, and public relations officer for Sambhaṣana Sandeśaha Monthly Sanskrit Magazine.

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As a transportation and health researcher, Christopher has been using visual and spatial data analytics to address accessibility, mobility and public health issues for several years.

Christopher developed the Tableau course for the University of Sydney Business School’s Big Data specialisation. He also teaches Data Science and Geographic Information Systems.

Christopher holds a Bachelor degree in Physics/Computer Science and a PhD in econometrics from the University of Sydney. He sees himself more as a learning facilitator than as a teacher, and finds nothing more rewarding than seeing a student work out an answer for themselves after being pointed in the right direction.

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Dr Denise Stanley is an artist, teacher, writer and musician all in a day’s work. She is an associate lecturer in Educational Psychology at the University of Sydney, and utilises arts-informed inquiry as her primary research methodology. Denise has travelled the world, snorkelled oceans, backpacked jungles, rafted the Nile, worked with blowtorches, created music and taught many students many things. She is a paino teacher and provides private art tuition, as well as being a freelance artist.

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Karen Stapleton. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Vladan Starcevic has had medical education, psychiatric training and clinical, teaching and research experience and career in the former Yugoslavia, United States and Australia. He is currently Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School, Consultant Psychiatrist and Head of the Academic Department of Psychiatry at Nepean Hospital. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Belgrade and University of Novi Sad.

Dr Starcevic’s main professional and research interests include psychopathology, psychopharmacology and psychotherapy of anxiety, mood, somatoform and personality disorders, combined pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, and psychiatric classifications. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 book chapters and articles in various international journals. He has co-edited a book Hypochondriasis: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Malady, published in 2001 and is the author of three other books on various aspects of anxiety disorders. His book Anxiety Disorders in Adults: A Clinical Guide was originally published by Oxford University Press in 2005 and its second edition appeared in 2010. He has lectured widely and organised symposia and workshops at psychiatric conferences around the world.

Dr Starcevic’s research activities occur mainly through the Nepean Anxiety Disorders Clinic. His current projects involve studies of the cognitive styles in various anxiety disorders, treatment preferences for anxiety and related disorders, validity of the symptom subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the novel concept of dysphoria and its assessment and psychopathology of excessive use of online video games.

Dr Starcevic serves on the panel for the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry Task Force on Treatment Guidelines for Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders. He has been an adviser for Anxiety Disorders Measures in the Handbook of Psychiatric Measures, published by the American Psychiatric Association and Chair of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Measurement Instruments in Psychiatric Care. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several professional journals and has been a manuscript reviewer for over 20 journals.

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Amy Starreveld. Tutor of CCE

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Nicolette Stasko has published five collections of poetry including Glass Cathedrals: New and Selected Poetry (2006). She has won the Anne Elder Award and been short listed for the National Book Awards and the NSW Premier’s Prize. She is also the author of the best selling Oyster: from Montparnasse to Greenwell Point and a fiction, The Invention of Everyday Life (2007). She is a teacher, essayist, reviewer and her work has appeared in many anthologies. Nicolette Stasko was recently awarded a PhD in English/Australian Studies from Sydney University where she has also taught. She is currently working on a detective novel, a book on art and her sixth collection of poetry.