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Venesa Lalic. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Lisa Lampe is a psychiatrist who has specialised in researching and treating anxiety since 1992. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Sydney Medical School of the University of Sydney, and also has a Senior Staff Specialist (Academic) appointment with the Northern Sydney Local Health District and the CADE Clinic. Lisa is the author of book chapters, research papers, educational papers in professional journals, and numerous workshops, and has appeared on radio and television. The textbook on anxiety disorders written with colleagues from the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD) at St Vincent’s Hospital is widely used and has been translated into 5 other languages; and the DVDs I Think They Think and Fight or Flight? (with Prof Ron Rapee) have also found a wide audience. She has also written books on anxiety and depression for a general audience. Lisa’s patients have taught her a great deal about anxiety over the years, and the journey to control it. The strategies she will share in psychoeducation courses have been developed through the application and testing of research findings in real life with real people.

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Clotilde Landais received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2008, where she specialised in the literary representation of the writer in North American Horror Fiction. Landais has published several articles on this topic in academic journals and she is currently preparing a monograph on metafiction in Stephen King’s works. She also taught literature at Pepperdine University – Switzerland (2009-2010).

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Ari Lander. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Janis Lander is an artist, author and lecturer, based in Sydney. Her doctoral thesis, titled “A Discursive Study of Art and Education in Contemporary Spiritual Systems” was completed at the University of New South Wales in 2012. In 2013 the USA publishers Routledge/Taylor & Francis published a monograph on the research titled “Spiritual Art and Art Education”, in the series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies. Janis lectures on contemporary spiritual concepts and practices, in the context of ontology (theories of being), and aesthetics (theories of art). Janis also teaches practical workshops combining meditation practices with art exercises.

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Genevieve Lang has been a professional musician for 13 years, performing regularly with the Sydney, Tasmanian and West Australian symphony orchestras, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and with various chamber music ensembles, including the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Virtuosi Tasmania, Halcyon (a contemporary music ensemble), and SHE (Seven Harp Ensemble).

In more recent years, she has been a regular pre-concert speaker for the Sydney and Tasmanian symphony orchestras, in addition to speaking to audiences at chamber music and solo recitals. In 2007, she was the Australian Youth Orchestra’s Music Presentation Fellow, which involved working as a researcher with Andrew Ford’s ‘The Music Show’ for Radio National and as sub-editor at the Sydney Symphony. In 2008-09, she was Symphony Australia’s Artistic Administration Intern, which included a three-month secondment to ABC Classic FM. In addition to performing, her passion is communicating with audiences on additional levels, sharing with them the knowledge and insights gained from many years of working in the profession.

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Genevieve is a Senior Project Officer in the Lumos team at the NSW Ministry of Health.

She previously worked as a Project Officer to improve access to outpatient care in Northern Sydney Local Health District, and as a Physiotherapist in Western Sydney Local Health District.

As a Physiotherapist, Genevieve’s main interests were treating patients in the outpatient department and using simple data to run projects that significantly reduced waiting times. Genevieve completed a Master of Public Health in 2019 at Macquarie University.

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Raphael Lataster holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, and occasionally lectures there and at other institutions. His main academic research interests include misinformation, disinformation, and fake news, in Health, Politics, and Religion.

Raphael has a Bachelor of Pharmacy, a Masters of Applied Finance, and several postgraduate research degrees in the Arts. Initially focussing his academic efforts around misinformation in Religion, he has shifted focus to misinformation in Politics and Health, particularly COVID-19.

View Raphael’s web page.

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Luciane Lauffer has a BA in Journalism (Brazil), and a Master’s in International Studies from Curtin University (Perth,WA). She worked for several newspapers and some radio stations in Southern Brazil, covering stories on Business and Politics until she moved to Australia in 2001. Luciane also lived in Germany and Canada, and speaks German, Spanish and is trying to improve her French.

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Monique is a French and English teacher with over 20 years of experience teaching across different countries and contexts (Alliance Francaise, Universities, Language Schools and Colleges). She holds a Master's degree in Teaching French as a Foreign Language, a Graduate Certificate in Learning Design and is currently studying for a Master's in Education. Monique is always looking for new strategies and tools to make her learning more engaging inside and outside the classroom and wants students to have the same enjoyable learning experience whether it is in a face-to-face or online environment.