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Victoria Loy. Tutor of CCE

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Jia Lu has extensive experience as a Chinese language teacher. A key part of her approach is her personal belief that creating an interactive and enjoyable learning environment is very important for adult language learning. Through her teaching, Jia Lu focuses on facilitating students to gain an understanding of language as well as establishing a good foundation of abilities in self learning; the two key elements that enable adult learners to memorise what they have learnt from class. This dual method is a proven way of encouraging students to make progress in their studies; by ‘building on’ instead of ‘losing out’ on what they have learnt in class.

As a trilingual (Chinese, Japanese & English) speaker, language teacher and translator, Lu Jia draws from her own experiences of learning languages to offer a creative and student-centred approach. Everyone learns differently, so she is keen to discover each student’s strength and maximise it to help overcome their weaknesses in language learning. Imagination and creativity are seen by her as an essential part of this process.

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Betty was born in Vietnam, migrated to Australia in 1991 and has been working in the Health Service for 20 years. She is currently working as a Vietnamese Health Education Officer in South Western Sydney Area Health Service. Betty has a special interest in teaching Vietnamese language. She holds a Diploma of Interpreting (1998) Accredited as Interpreter Level 2 (NAATI) since 1999 and was a SOCOG Language Specialist at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She has a Certificate in Communicative Language Teaching from the University of New South Wales (2001), was a teacher at Green Valley Vietnamese Language School (2000 – 2003) and is a member of the Vietnamese Parent Committee of Green Valley Vietnamese Language School (2003 – present).

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Georgina Luscombe is Associate Professor of Rural Health at The University of Sydney School of Rural Health. Her research supports the rural health research agenda, with a focus on innovative rural service delivery models, rural health workforce development and health issues directly impacting rural populations. Working in collaboration with the Western NSW Local Health District, her research and evaluation work aims to improve health services and public health policy and practice.

Georgina has a broad range of expertise in medical and allied health research, particularly in the design and implementation of research with community organisations and clinicians. She strives to achieve fairer participation of Aboriginal people in healthcare and in health research and believes that privileging of Indigenous ways of knowing will lead to improvements in health for Aboriginal people.

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Josto was born in Sardinia, Italy. He graduated from Rome University in Chinese studies, holds a Double Master’s degree in International Relations from Peking University, and in International History from the London School of Economics. He is currently undertaking his Ph.D. in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney.

Josto first taught Italian in Italy to migrants as a volunteer. Teaching Italian soon became his passion and he decided to consolidate his knowledge through an intensive course for teaching Italian as second language and obtaining the second level of the DITALS certificate. Josto then spent several years' abroad teaching in China, England, Laos, and Australia.

Josto has numerous interests which include figure skating, camping, reading, travelling and playing piano. He speaks four languages and believes that learning a language is a journey of discovery. His classes are set up to guide students through this journey, in a humorous, relaxed and creative environment, where they can explore and map their linguistic improvements through numerous activities and games.

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Ken Ly. Tutor of CCE

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Nathan Lyons. Tutor of CCE

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Jemima MacDonald. Tutor of CCE

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Professor Colin Mackerras AO has written and lectured widely on Chinese history and contemporary China, particularly its culture and ethnic minorities, including a study of Xinjiang’s main ethnic group, the Uighurs. During more than 30 years at Griffith University he contributed greatly to Asian studies throughout Australia. In 2007 he led a successful tour to China for CCE, devoted to the history of the Silk Road.

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Aurelie Madec. Tutor of CCE