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Dr. Linh Thuy Hubner was born in central Vietnam and was educated there to the level of Master of Arts in Linguistics at Hue University of Sciences (2009). She then successfully completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Queensland (2014) and with her husband and young son, now calls Sydney home.

Linh has a strong background and in language teaching having taught in tertiary institutions in Vietnam and Thailand for six years before coming to Australia in 2012 to undertake her Doctoral studies. She has a particular interest in teaching Vietnamese language and in the process sharing elements of her cultural background with her students.

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Sarah Hudspith. Tutor of CCE

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Samuel Huet holds a MA in teaching French as a foreign language from Paris-V University, Paris and a Masters of Asia-Pacific Studies from the Australian National University, Canberra. He has combined these two passions by teaching French at the Alliance Francaise in Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and Canberra. He has also lectured at ANU and at the State Islamic University in Malang, Indonesia. Samuel currently works as a researcher/writer for Amnesty International and as a part time French language teacher for the Centre.

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Melissa Hulme is a registered psychologist who has worked with parents and students across the health, education and community sectors, to help them to identify and manage anxiety disorders alongside many other conditions, most commonly within the context of a disruptive behaviour that gets noticed! She currently works primarily in a research role at Westmead Hospital’s Perinatal Psychiatry Clinic. She has an active interest in childhood trauma and dynamic-attachment-based approaches to treatment, and has a good grounding in cognitive behavioural skills. Melissa has conducted evaluation of Arndell School’s program and published in the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

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I have been a teacher of academic literacy for nearly twenty years in Australia and internationally. I worked for many years at the Learning Centre at the University of Sydney supporting undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of faculties. I recently completed a PhD in literacy education and, in addition to my work teaching Study Skills at the Centre for Continuing Education am working as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

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Dr Lynette Hung is a clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience in clinical psychology research and over 6 years of experience in psychology practice. She received her postgraduate qualifications from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where she completed a PhD and Master of Clinical Psychology. She currently holds a Research Fellowship in the School of Psychology UNSW, works in private practice and is an affiliated clinician at the Traumatic Stress Clinic (Westmead Hospital and UNSW).

Lynette specialises in the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders in adults, children, and adolescents and works with clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Her main research interests include anxiety, anger, and dissociative processes; she has been involved in research investigating the development of various mental health disorders as well as clinical trials examining the effectiveness of different treatments for PTSD and Complicated Grief. She has also been actively involved in teaching, training and supervising early-career clinical psychology researchers.

Lynette has published in several peer-reviewed journals and presented her research at national and international conferences. She has also won several national and international awards for her work, including a prize from the American Psychological Association for her research on dissociative processes.

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Born in Brisbane Australia; I can’t remember not painting or drawing.

I was given a scholarship to study Graphic Design at the School Of Visual Art when I was 19.

Following graduation, I became immersed in the teaching of drawing, painting and illustration skills to tertiary aged students, of both Australian and international origins. I taught continuously for over 20 years, and the imparting knowledge and seeing new artistic results, still remains a great pleasure for me.

I’m driven by a passion to paint, and produce artwork on a continuous basis. I work in pencil, graphite, oil pastel, watercolor, gouache, oil paint, and also produce assemblages using mixed medias.

Producing artworks puts me in a zone where the senses blend and time looses both relevance and context, and is why I named my first solo exhibition BLEND.

I’m very proud to have artworks in collections currently in England, New Zealand, South Africa, the USA, and Australia.

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Jieun has taught English grammar, Reading and Speaking at universities in South Korea and is currently teaching Korean language at the Korean School in Sydney.

She has completed a Master’s degree in English linguistics at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in South Korea and is studying at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) as a PhD research candidature. Her research interest lies in the area of learning language using mobile technology.

She is passionate about language education and encouraging the students to use Korean language as much as possible.

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David Ikin is currently the Year 2 Teacher at The Scots College Preparatory School. He is studying his Master of Educational Psychology and has previously studied extension mathematics, applied physics and mechanics of solids. David has joined the Honours Program Team in 2012 and is passionate about boys' education, mathematics, science and sustainability.

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Marilyn Immerman was born and educated in South Africa where she started her career in Jewish day school education at King David High School. She immigrated to Australia in 1977 with her husband, Hilton. In 1981 she joined the staff of Moriah College High School, teaching History and English. She was subsequently appointed Head of Jewish Studies, a position she held for 12 years. In this role, she was responsible for coordinating Jewish History, Jewish Studies, Studies of Religion and Hebrew (Classical and Modern). She taught mainly Jewish History and helped to create the curricula for this and for a Year 11 course in Modern Israel Studies. She specialised in Holocaust History.

She spent a year in Israel in 1996/7 where she completed a number of courses at the Rothberg International School. She participated in many professional development courses including one conducted by the Melton centre at the Hebrew University for Jewish educators from Australian Jewish Day schools and another at Yad Vashem.

Some years ago, she also taught the ‘Dilemmas of Jewish Living’ course (a forerunner to the ‘Dramas of Jewish Living’ course in the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, at that time coordinated by The Shalom Institute.

She has led student tours both to Israel and Poland. She recently resigned from Moriah after 33 years of senior school teaching. She resides at Shalom College at the University of NSW where she participates in many adult Jewish educational and cultural events.

She is and Executive member and serves as Chair of the Education Committee of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies. She has 2 sons and a grandson.