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Justine Lind is currently the Co-ordinator of the Honours Program at The Scots College Preparatory School. With over 15 years experience specialising in Gifted Education she is passionate about the value of innovative and dynamic learning experiences that enrich the lives of all learners. Justine has worked in a number of Sydney’s Independent Schools as a teacher and leader of curriculum and prior to joining the Scots College was the Deputy of Learning and Teaching at St Andrew’s School in Adelaide which offers the Primary and Middle Years Programs of the International Baccalaureate.

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Alan was born in the US and studied at the Westfield University, MA. Alan has taught in three countries (US, Spain and Australia) and two states of Australia (Queensland and NSW). In Queensland he was a Junior Science and Senior Mathematics District Moderator. In Sydney he has been a Junior Science Coordinator and for the past 20 years a Senior Mathematics Coordinator. His other responsibilities have included Head of Practical Business Studies and Administative Assistant.

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Helen Littleton has worked for fifteen years in publishing, as a publicist at Allen & Unwin and as an editor and publisher at Harper Collins and ABC Books.

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Lian Liu has extensive experience working as a language teacher and researcher, and has worked in several universities in China and Australia. She has taught language and literacy, second language acquisition, English, and theory and practice of language teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels for ten years. She is currently teaching Chinese at School of Languages and Cultures, the University of Sydney.

Lian has comprehensive knowledge of language learning and research in both classroom and adult learning settings. She has publications in the areas of teaching reading comprehension, applying genre analysis in teaching of writing and cross cultural discourse analysis.

Lian Liu holds a Bachelor in English and Language Literacy, and a Master in Education.

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Lucy Liu is a current PhD candidate in interpreting and translation studies and holds a master’s degree in Linguistics. She was a lecturer at the Dalian University of Technology where she had taught Chinese to speakers of other languages since 2007. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, she also worked as a Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant at Union College New York in 2010 and 2011.

Lucy has taught Mandarin Chinese to learners at all levels, from absolute beginners to advanced learners. Lucy is a certified teacher of higher education institutions by the Ministry of Education, P.R. China. She applies various teaching approaches to provide a highly engaging and supportive learning environment for her students. She consistently receives excellent feedback from our students.

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Liu Xinmin received his PhD in Chinese Language from Fudan University in 2001, China. He is a professor and the director of Chinese Department in International Cultural Exchange School at Fudan University. Liu is currently a Chinese teacher of Confucius Institute.

Dr. Liu has been working as a teacher of TCSOL (Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages) for over 20 years and have many experiences of teaching Chinese language in both China and other countries. He was invited to work as a Chinese Lecturer in Germany (Free University of Berlin), Japan, South Korean and Singapore for many times. As an expert of Confucius Institute Headquarters, Liu has also been involved in the training of Chinese teachers in Sweden and Singapore.

Dr. Liu’s research interests include Modern Chinese Language and Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL) and he has published many books and articles in these areas. His major publications include: Language and Language Teaching (Ningxia People’s Press, 2005); The Research of Sentence Generation of Modern Chinese Language (East China Normal University Press, 2005); Researches on Chinese Word Order from '80s (Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies, No.5 2001); An Experimental Study on Word Association and Word Extraction in the Mental Lexicon of Korean Chinese Language Learners (Chinese Language and Chinese literature, No 56, 2013)

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Rabbi Dr. Ari Lobel is currently serving as a lecturer in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. He left Sydney straight after completing high school at Moriah College and moved to Jerusalem where he spent almost a decade (1986-96) studying at various academic institutions, including the Hebrew University and Aish Hatorah College of Jewish studies (where he taught for a number of years). While in Jerusalem, Rabbi Lobel also received his rabbinical ordination. He then moved to Baltimore, USA to continue his studies and eventually completed both a Master of Liberal Arts (MLA) at Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Talmudic Law at Ner Israel Rabbinical College. While in Baltimore he worked as a writer, editor and translator for the ArtScroll translation of the Talmud and Mishnah, as well as serving as Editorial Director for an Encyclopedia of Biblical Law.

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Originally from Moscow, Maria Lobytsyna graduated from Moscow University where she wrote her thesis on Gogol. She has taught Russian Literature at Moscow University, Syracuse University (USA) and Melbourne University. Maria’s publications in Russian, English and Dutch journals include articles on 18th-19th Century Russian and English literature. Maria has a Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours, from Moscow University, a Master of Philosophy in Russian and English Literature from Glasgow University and has recently been awarded her PhD from the University of Sydney for her thesis on Laurence Sterne and Russian culture.

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David Lockwood. Tutor of CCE

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Currently working for the University of New England as online tutor, Livio Loi (BA (Hons) Italy, PhD (Wollongong NSW)
), born in Italy, graduated at the University of Cagliari (Italy) with a thesis on the verse of English poet Edwin Muir. Specialised in Italian and English modern literature, has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. High school teacher (foreign languages and literatures) in Italy from 1985 to 2005, worked as Italian government lecturer from 2005 to 2010 teaching advanced Italian language and Italian culture at the Universities of New England, Armidale NSW, and the University of Wollongong NSW.

Research interests include modern Italian literature, transnational Modernism, visual arts, women writers, Haiku poetry, cinema. Has published on Italian modern poetry in US and UK literary journals.