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Tara Holmes has been teaching Visual Arts at the Scots College Preparatory School for five years. Before that she was a classroom teacher in New York City for two years. Tara is passionate about the Reggio Emilia philosophy and the importance of creative arts education for young children. She graduated from La Guardia High School of the Arts in NYC with a concentration in Visual Arts, then City University of New York with a concentration in Visual Arts and Video Documentary. She obtained a Master degree in Childhood Education in 2004.

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Vicki Holmes-Newsome. Tutor of CCE

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This year marks Jim’s 40th year as a professional actor. He has extensive experience both on stage and screen and is highly regarded in the industry. He’s also an accomplished clown and magician and is the first Australian to ever have worked in the Moscow Circus in Moscow itself, when he lived and worked there. At present he’s taken time out to write a novel set in Russia and is a tutor with the Writers' Studio.

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Fiona Homann joined the University of Sydney in July 2019 as the Director, Central PMO within the Strategy Portfolio.  In this role Fiona leads a team of experienced PMO, project and change specialists supporting the effective delivery and oversight of a portfolio of University strategic and transformational initiatives.

She is a Senior Change leader with 25 years of experience in enterprise program and project offices, transformation programs, and investment portfolio management.​​  Fiona is also a member of the John Grill Institute of Project Leadership Program Advisory Panel (Industry) which focuses on understanding the needs of industry, business and government to enhance project outcomes.

Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Fiona led multiple programs, projects and PMOs encompassing strategy development and implementation, and business transformation and change, for domestic and global organisations including Microsoft, TAFE NSW, Willis Towers Watson and Lloyds Banking Group.

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Yarran Hominh. Tutor of CCE

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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.

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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.

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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 Reformation

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Bill Hoyle. Tutor of CCE

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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.