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Vladimir Feldman currently teaches Extra Curricular Chess Classes at The Scots College and in a number of Eastern Suburbs Independent and Public Schools. An International Chess Master with over 30 years experience in chess tutoring, Vladimir has a university degree in Chess Coaching from Moscow Sports University. In 2005 Vladimir completed the Professional Accreditation as an FIDE Trainer by the International Chess Federation. As a player Vladimir’s best result was winning the Oceania Championship and representing Australia in World Chess Championship in Las Vegas in 1999.

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Almudena Fernandez was born in Vigo, Spain. After graduating with a degree in Journalism at the University of Santiago de Compostela, she worked in various media outlets. In was during her time at University that she started teaching Spanish, and thereby discovered her passion for languages. Her teaching experience has has allowed her to pursue a career in media marketing and teach in her native language throughout the world.

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Paul Feron. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Rita Ferraro has designed, developed and delivered academic courses, with a specialisation in Spanish language, for the University of Sydney (USYD) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), since 2002. She also introduced Brazilian Portuguese language courses to University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education in 2004, which meant it was the first Australian institution to offer Brazilian Portuguese courses for adults.

Dr Ferraro has written and published a series of bi-lingual Portuguese language tuition books and in 2020, she published a book chapter that explores second language acquisition, noting the various challenges native English-speakers face in applying implicit and explicit knowledge to their language learning. Dr Ferraro is an accomplished academic author, course tutor, lecturer, and convenor, with outstanding reviews from her many students.

Dr Ferraro earned a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Portuguese and Spanish from Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1996 and a PhD in Portuguese and Spanish contrastive linguistics from University of Cadiz (UCA), Spain, in 2005. She also attained various certificates such as CERT IV TAE, IELTS, ISLPR, TESOL and others.

Dr Ferraro’s interests are in advancing language learning, particularly in Portuguese and Spanish, with an expanding interest in exploring and documenting the attributes that constitute ‘best practice’ teaching methods and methodologies.

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Judith has been working as biostatistician in Sydney Nursing School, now known as the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, for 24 years. She has been using SPSS for over 35 years.

Judith has a Bachelor of Arts majoring in statistics and a Bachelor of Teaching. Her main role is to provide statistical guidance and advice to staff and students across all aspects of their research, from conceptualisation through to publication.

In addition, Judith presents intensive lectures in statistics for epidemiology and clinical trial research. She is passionate about statistics as a language anyone can learn, and her goal is to make statistics accessible to everyone who needs to use them.

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Michael Field is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney, having recently retired after 26 years as an academic and clinician in the Faculty of Medicine (Sydney Medical School). He has a research background in kidney physiology, and extensive clinical experience as a consultant physician in general medicine and nephrology (kidney disease and hypertension). He trained and worked at most of the teaching hospitals associated with the University, most recently as Associate Dean and Head of the Northern Clinical School based at Royal North Shore Hospital. He has received numerous teaching awards, including an Excellence in Teaching award from the University of Sydney. Michael Field has also been active in medical education, including as a leader of curriculum change in developing the graduate-intake medical course now offered at Sydney, and as a consultant to medical schools in Asia and Europe. From 2004-2010 he was Chair of the Medical School Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council.

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Gustavo Fimbres Weihs. Tutor of CCE

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Jillian Fine is the Director of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, Sydney and the Administrator of the Joint Committee for Jewish Higher Education. She is an educator with an interest in Adult and Holocaust Education. She is a volunteer guide at the Sydney Jewish Museum and is currently doing a Master of Holocaust Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research interests are the restitution of art looted by the Nazis and antisemitic cartooning in the Australian press.

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Luke Fischer is a scholar and award-winning poet. He is the author of three books, including The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the poetry collection Paths of Flight (Black Pepper, 2013). He has published a number of articles on poetry (especially Rilke), philosophy and art and guest-edited (with Dalia Nassar) a special section of the Goethe Yearbook (2015) on Goethe and environmentalism. His poems have appeared in leading journals and anthologies, including The Best Australian Poems 2014. He won the 2012 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the 2012 Newcastle Poetry Prize, and commended in the 2013 FAW Anne Elder Award. He was awarded a PhD in philosophy in 2008 and is currently an honorary research associate in the philosophy department at the University of Sydney. He has previously taught courses at universities in the US and Germany.

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Caitlin Fisher. Tutor of CCE