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Iain Calvert. Tutor of CCE

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Nathalie is a native speaker of French and current PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on literary translation. Nathalie has taught French language courses at the University of Sydney, University of New South Wales and the University of New England, Armidale. She holds a Masters in French literature from Paris-Sorbonne University.

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Ian Cameron. Tutor of CCE

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Marina Campbell was born in Russia and returns regularly for study, work and pleasure. Since 2002 she has developed and led a number of CCE study tours to Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary. Marina holds an MA in Russian Studies from the University of NSW and taught English as a Second Language at the University of Sydney before joining the Centre for Continuing Education in 1998. Since then she has used her experience in teaching English, Russian and Polish to develop the Centre’s highly successful Russian language program which aims to provide fluency supported by sound grammatical knowledge.

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Artist – Freelance Retoucher/Lecturer

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Dr Leslie Cannold is an author, researcher, ethicist and vocalist.

She worked for years at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, and now holds an Honorary Fellowship at Melbourne, as well as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer position at Monash University. Leslie sits on various boards and committees, including the ethics panel of the Infertility Treatment Authority and the Human Research and Ethics Committee of the Victorian Department of Human Services. She is president of Reproductive Choice Australia and Pro-Choice Victoria, grass-roots advocacy groups that seek to maximise the reproductive rights and freedoms available to Australians.

Leslie’s non-fiction works include the award-winning “blank”>The Abortion Myth: Feminism, morality and the hard choices women make and What, No Baby: Why women are losing the freedom to mother, and how they can get it back, which made the Australian Financial Review’s top 101 books list in 2005. Her first novel will be published in Australia by Text early in 2011.

Leslie regularly gets her mug on the screen and her voice on the airwaves. She yakked about life, ethics and everything with Virginia Trioli for years on 774 ABC Melbourne, and now does the same with both Deborah Cameron on 702 ABC Sydney and Greg Carey on Brisbane Radio 4BC. You can find her on Radio National on occasion and also Triple J. Leslie has been seen on Q & A, Today Tonight, The 7:30 Report, A Current Affair, The Catch-Up, The Einstein Factor, Insight, 9am with David & Kim, Lateline, and is the resident ethicist on Network Ten’s The 7pm Project. Since the late 1980’s, her views have appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Herald Sun (Melbourne), the The Courier Mail (Brisbane) and the national broadsheet The Australian. In 2005, Leslie was named as one of Australia’s top 20 public intellectuals.

Leslie’s cover band, Speedy Fish, plays left-of-centre toe-tappers in cafes and galleries around Melbourne. Sometimes, they even get paid.

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Annie has been the MIC of Debating in the Preparatory School over the past six years and has delivered a variety of engaging debating courses to students of various ages as teacher in the Honours program. She is a specialist teacher in Gifted Education who also holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons.) and a Bachelor of Teaching (Primary). Annie is a passionate teacher and advocate for the Gifted. She has been designing and implementing challenging curriculum to meet the needs of high ability students at the Preparatory School since 2007. Prior to this appointment Annie has worked as a classroom teacher in several Independent Schools. She works with staff, boys and their parents in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for these students.

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Dr George Carayannopoulos is an experienced executive, researcher, consultant and author in organisational coordination and crisis management. He has been an affiliate of the Bushfires and Natural Hazards Research Centre and has published a book Disaster Management in Australia which analysed Australia’s two largest natural disasters over the last decade the 2009 Victorian bushfires and 2011 Queensland floods. Through his research he has been involved with senior leadership at the government and emergency management authority level including agencies such as Emergency Management Victoria and Emergency Management Queensland.

George has an extensive background in developing and delivering strategic projects and initiatives aimed at improving organisational performance and coordination. He has strong policy development and analysis skills aimed at translating research into applied contexts particularly with regard to crises and natural disasters.

He is a regular presenter at conferences, workshops, seminars and has appeared on a number of major media mediums including the BBC, SBS and radio as an expert commentator in the wake of crisis events.

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Alina Carbajal has followed a career as a professional Spanish teacher over the past years. She commenced her community education in this area in 1989. She has formal qualifications from New Zealand and Australia with the internationally recognised CELTA, Certificate in Language Teaching to Adults and a Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training. Since arriving in Australia, she has taught Spanish in different organisations, including The University of NSW Institute of Language, The International Languages, WEA and TAFE.

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Dr Alison Cardinale is an experienced secondary English teacher with a B.A. (Hons) in English Literature and a Master of Teaching qualification from the University of Sydney, along with a PhD in Romantic poetry from ANU. Alison holds a Graduate Diploma in Communications from the University of Technology.

Over the past decade, Alison has taught in a range of Sydney independent schools including Queenwood School for Girls, PLC Sydney and The Scots College. She is currently teaching at Newington College, Stanmore.

Alison has experience teaching the International Baccalaureate alongside senior English courses including HSC English Extension. Additionally, she has recent experience in HSC marking at Advanced and Extension levels.

In 2017, Alison lectured at the University of Sydney for ETA HSC student days. From 2017-2018 she was an academic tutor at the University of Sydney in the Master of Teaching English course ‘Senior Curriculum’.

Her educational philosophy is based on a student-centred approach supported by deep subject knowledge and understanding of syllabus objectives. Sharing passionate engagement with English literature and language in a manner that empowers students and fosters independent inquiry is integral to her approach to learning and curriculum delivery.