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Benjamin Mangold. Tutor of CCE

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Phil Mannocchio has taught Business Studies, Economics, Geography, Legal Studies and Commerce at high schools for 14 years, and is currently the Coordinator of Social Science at Moriah College. He has been invited by the NSW Board of Studies to be part of the Consultative Team for the new Business Studies to be introduced in 2011 and was part of the Consultative Team for the current Stage 5 Commerce Syllabus in 2004. Phil was also the Business Studies convenor for the Association of Independent Schools from 2001 – 2005. Phil has been a lecturer for ‘EdAssist’ & ‘The School for Excellence’ Winter & Summer School Programmes at Sydney University to Yr 12 Business Studies students. He has been an HSC Business Studies marker for 9 years and a member of the Advice Line for 7 years. In 2009, Phil become a Director for the Economics & Business Educators Association of NSW, writing articles for their journal and assisting in organising professional development for Economics, Business Studies and Commerce teachers. In addition to this wealth of experience in teaching, Phil has owned and run a café allowing practical experience to aid his motivation of students in the classroom when teaching Economics, Business Studies and Commerce.

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Born and raised in Lebanon, Claudine completed her HSC in philosophy and obtained a Bachelor in Social Work and Honours degree in Counselling. Having made the decision to move to Sydney provided Claudine the opportunity to grow and develop both her personal and professional life. Claudine has completed many local teaching programs to reinforce her teaching skills. She has taught Arabic in different schools: Canberra Language School, St Joseph’s Arabic School/Croydon, as well as running private tutoring classes in French and Arabic languages. She joined the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies team and the Centre for Continuing Education at Sydney University in 2009.

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Marina Mao. Tutor of CCE

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Luke Marcatili is an illustrator from Sydney, Australia. Currently working as a Visual Development Artist in the animation industry, Luke’s job is to design characters and locations for animated TV shows and to help develop story ideas. He also works as a comics artist, motion graphics animator and indie game developer.

Luke is an enthusiastic teacher who aims to work with each of his students to help them improve their drawing ability and to have fun telling their own stories.

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Dr Roman Marchant is a senior lecturer in statistical machine learning. His current research at DARE (ARC Centre on Data Analytics for Resources and Environment) involves developing new data science techniques to answer complex problems, including prediction of world-wide fish biomass, inference for youth mental health and understanding social behaviour.

His area of expertise is decision-making under uncertainty, which he approaches by building fully probabilistic models and evaluating sequential decision-making processes, trading off exploitation and exploration of new knowledge to maximise long-term reward. This area of research, called Sequential Bayesian Optimisation (SBO), has been applied to environmental monitoring, predictive policing and currently scoping its potential applications for youth mental health and broader social science issues.

Roman has undertaken several projects developing data science models to understand real world problems and aiding policy decision making, including work with NSW Police to understand domestic violence and NSW Parliament on the effectiveness of lock-out laws in Sydney to curb alcohol related assaults.

Lately, Roman has been exploring the ethics of Artificial Intelligence, particularly around fairness, accountability, and transparency of automated decision-making systems. He is actively conducting research on causality through Bayesian networks and the benefits and risks of using these to inform decisions.

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Tom has extensive experience in the advertising and graphic design field specialising in print media. He has worked as art director in print design, multimedia and web design, as creative director for a large multi national corporation and also in the capacity of graphic designer. Currently, Tom runs his own advertising and graphic design consultancy.

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Norma Maroun. Tutor of CCE

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Dr Pamela Marsh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Belief Formation Program of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD). She has led the development and testing of SoCog – a novel remediation program that targets the characteristic social impairments found in schizophrenia.

In 2006, Pamela completed her PhD on visual processing of emotional facial expressions in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and first-episode schizophrenia (FES) at the University of Sydney. She then joined the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS) to work on a project investigating the remediation of facial emotion perception in psychotic disorders.

Dr Marsh’s research achievements are unique because she is a mental health consumer and researcher with advocacy training; this is a rare combination and it is a major motivating factor in shaping Dr Marsh’s research interests. She is registered as a consumer representative (a spokesperson for people being treated for a mental illness) with the Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW (SFNSW) and has worked in the Consumer Network in NSW.

Dr Marsh’s profile and reputation amongst consumers and clinicians makes her ideally placed to pursue her research aims to develop remediation programs that will help to alleviate the social functioning impairments in schizophrenia. While working on psychiatric wards as an advocate, she gained an invaluable and privileged insight into the everyday difficulties experienced by individuals with schizophrenia and the toll that this illness takes on individuals and their families. Working at a grass roots level in clinical settings prompted Dr Marsh to focus her research on designing and implementing theoretically-informed treatments to improve social functioning impairments that are not stigmatizing, are enjoyable and motivating, and can fit realistically into the everyday lives of people with schizophrenia.

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Lindsey is a passionate corporate trainer and facilitator. His ability to translate theoretical knowledge and information quickly and easily into practical application places him in high demand with his clients. While based in Sydney Australia, Lindsey also works internationally in both New Zealand and Germany as a corporate trainer and facilitator.

With over 10 years of experience in training design and delivery, Lindsey offers clients up-to-the-minute training solutions, using the latest thinking technologies and strategies. His innovative training delivery stretches participants and maximises their learning experience.

His advanced knowledge of training design and development coupled with his use of de Bono thinking techniques and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) skills ensures that the material he delivers is actively integrated by participants.

Lindsey has developed and delivered training in a huge range of areas including: effective thinking strategies, state management, relationship selling, customer service, voice care, leadership, effective communication, telemarketing, induction, and both PC and mainframe programs.

A graduate of Auckland University, he holds a degree with a double major in Psychology and Education. Lindsey has also received tuition from some of the world’s most renowned trainers including Dr Edward de Bono, founder of Lateral ThinkingTM; Eric Jensen, teacher of accelerated learning; John Grinder, co-originator of NLP; Dr Steven Gilligan, trainer in Ericksonian Hypnosis.

In addition to being a trainer, Lindsey is also an active opera singer, the skills of which add to his colourful and entertaining presentation style.