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Mengya Gu is a passionate teacher who has taught Chinese Mandarin at The King’s School, as well as a number of other primary and secondary schools in Sydney. She strives to grow participant interest in Chinese language and culture, and implements a wide range of interactive student-centred teaching and learning strategies in her classes. These include the use of music, role playing and various forms of multimedia.

Mengya holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interpreting and Translation from the University of Western Sydney and a Master of Teaching from the Australian Catholic University. Through her tertiary education and teaching experience, Mengya has developed a deep understanding of the linguistic and cultural aspects of both Mandarin Chinese and English. This is reflected in her teaching.

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I graduated with a BA in Ancient History with First Class Honours from Macquarie University in 2005. I was then awarded a research scholarship and gained a PhD in Egyptology in 2010. My expertise is in Ancient Egyptian language and religion. My thesis deals with the Egyptian conception of deviant behaviour and comparative religion between Egyptian and Biblical religious texts. I participated in archaeological excavations with Macquarie University’s Theban Tombs Project from 2005-2008. I have also taught Egyptology courses at Macquarie University since 2006 until today. In addition, since 2007 I have delivered interactive Egyptology courses to Primary and High School students in both Australia and the UK.

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Dalia Guillén has a degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the Pedagogical University Libertador (Venezuela), a post-graduate degree in Educational Sciences, speciality in Teaching, Reading and Writing Skills from the University of Guayana (Venezuela), and she has subsequently completed additional courses such as the Examiners accreditation course (Diploma of Spanish as Foreign Language [DELE] C1, C2, B1, B2, A1 and A2). She has been certified examiner of the Diploma in Spanish as a Foreign Language (DELE) for different levels (basic to advanced).

Dalia has been teaching Spanish as a foreign language for several years (beginners to advanced levels). She has experience in managing mixed-level classes and different age groups. In her courses she always provides a variety of pedagogical material (textual and audio-visual) for students to improve their learning according to their levels and requirements.

Besides her lengthy experience as a Spanish Language Teacher, she also has extensive teaching experience at university and pre-university levels. She reached the category of Senior Lecturer in the Venezuelan university system. She has designed and taught subjects such as: “Comprehension and production of texts”; “Communication and linguistic expression”; “Strategies for effective text comprehension and production”; “Language comprehension and expression”; “Strategies for academic essay production”; “Epistemology and theory of communication and information”; “Semiotics”.

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Savita Gupta. Tutor of CCE

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Mrs Esty Gutnick completed her teaching degree and in 1980 graduated Beth Rivkah Teachers Seminary in Brooklyn, New York. She taught primary school-aged children until 1982. At this point, together with her husband she migrated to Australia, to assume the position of Rabbi and Rebbetzin of Strathfield Synagogue. Upon arrival, Esty taught primary aged students and concurrently assumed the role of director of a Sunday school program, in Strathfield Synagogue. Following this, Esty taught high school students, teaching a variety of subjects within the philosophy of Jewish Studies producing curriculum workbooks for both Primary and High School Jewish Studies and was actively involved in teacher training. Throughout her years in Australia, she has conducted private learning classes for text based advanced Jewish learning. Esty has been a Melton facilitator since 1999.

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Dr Nejmeh Habib has been teaching Arabic language and literature at the University of Sydney since 2003. Working at both the Centre for Continuing Education and the Department of Arabic Language and Culture, Dr Habib brings with her over thirty years of teaching and research experience and two diplomas in education. She is always looking to improve her teaching strategies and techniques, inspired by the latest theories of education and feedback from her students.

Dr. Habib’s research has been published in numerous journals and her academic books include: Literary Critiques in Poetry and Novel (2018); Visions of Exile and Return in the Palestinian Arabic Novel (2014); From Australia: Contemporary Literary Faces (2006); and Humanitarian Patterns in the Literature of Ghassan Kanafani (1999). She is the author of the novel A Spring that Did Not Blossom (2003) and the collection of short stories …And the Children Suffer (2001).

Dr. Habib is also an award winner. She received the Australia Council for the Arts Award in 2004. In 2006, she received the Gibran Khalil Gibran International Literary Award, issued by the Arabic Heritage League. In 2013, the Union of Palestinian Workers issued her the Award for Excellence, and in 2014 she received the Australian Arabic Culture Center Award for Creative Writing.

For more information see: www.nejmeh.net

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Ben has been in data science roles for 20 years with a focus on applied machine learning and natural language processing with applications in finance, news, law and healthcare. For the past 6 years, Ben has worked with start-ups building and leading teams that develop machine-in-the-loop tools to amplify human intelligence. For the past 3 years, he’s focused on digital health. Ben leads the Applied AI team at Harrison.ai, leveraging vision, language and multimodal AI for clinical medicine. He serves as academic board member for a new data science university in Sydney, and as an Australian representative for the development of the ISO standard for AI.

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Catherine has more than 15 years experience in operational and strategic management, supported by tertiary qualifications in tourism, hospitality and marketing. Her career has included the development and delivery of successful events for international five star hotel chains, cruise ships, casinos, and global travel providers both internationally and domestically.

Catherine was formerly the Manager of Sydney Marketing and Events for Tourism New South Wales, working with numerous commercial event producers and government agencies such as the NSW Major Events Unit on a variety of local, hallmark and mega events for the destination. Her current role is Managing Director of Tourism Hospitality Events Australia. THEaustralia specialises in the customised delivery of integrated sales, marketing, communications and strategic management expertise to businesses operating in the tourism, hospitality and event sectors.

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James is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a financial analyst with a background in banking and finance, private equity, M&A, and insolvency. He enjoys the creativity needed to help clients manage, understand, and simplify complex problems. He combines his technical financial management skills with qualifications as a corporate coach specialising in emotional intelligence. James is part of the faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management, where he teaches full-time, online, and executive MBA programs. He also has experience teaching in Europe and Asia.

James has extensive experience in delivering data visualisation training and workshops to clients such as Commonwealth Bank Australia (Treasury team), NSW Treasury, NSW Department of Education, Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Coles, Aldi, and Novo Nordisk. He has also worked on the financial modelling of multiple road, rail, ferry, and bus bids and is a vocal advocate of public transport.

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Louise Hamby is a Postdoctoral Fellow lecturing in the Museums and Collections Graduate Program at Australian National University. Louise has a strong interest in historic and contemporary material culture from Arnhem Land. Her involvement with eastern Arnhem Land women lead to the development of the exhibition that she co-curated with Diana Young, Art on a String. Her most recent involvement in curation, research and writing is about western Arnhem Land fibre. This resulted in the exhibition and book called Twined Together: Kunmadj Njalehnjaleken.