Our Tutors WEA Sydney

Our Tutors

Shaila Akhter

MPhil, PhD
Dr. Shaila Akhter has done an MPhil and a PhD in Astrophysics and has around 10 years of teaching experience in University Physics and Astronomy at UNSW. She has conducted extensive physics and...

Frank Amati

BA (Hons), MA (Hons)
Frank Amati BA (Hons), MA (Hons) has taught in the field of Classics and Ancient History for almost forty years and has taught at the WEA for the last four years. Frank has a keen interest in...

American Civil War Round Table (NSW)

The American Civil War Round Table of Australia – NSW Chapter is a non-profit organisation constituted in 1999 by a group of people in Sydney with a common interest in, and fascination with...

Graeme Aplin

MA, PhD
Graeme Aplin, PhD, taught Geography at tertiary level for 40 years and has previously taught at the WEA and U3A Sydney Upper North. Graeme developed a keen interest in the environment and in...

Sharon Baker

Dip Western Calligraphy
Sharon has a Diploma in Western Calligraphy, Certificate IV in Illuminated Calligraphy, Commercial Italic and Historical Calligraphy. She continues to study with many international calligraphers...

Malabi Banerji

BA (Hons), MA
Malabi believes in the power of collaborative growth and learning. Malabi, is an experienced instructor with over 27 years of teaching expertise, brings a modern and realistic approach to her...

Andrew Banks

BEd, MMusTech
Andrew Banks, MMus Tech BEd has been a high school music teacher for over 38 years as well as being Head Teacher of Creative and Performing Arts. He has been a tutor at WEA for nine years offering...

Kerry Barlow

BA, MA
Kerry Barlow has an extensive background in education, having taught economics, economic history and education for many years, at high school, TAFE and university levels. Kerry also has strong...

Juan Carlos Barreno

M AppLing
Juan Carlos has a Master of Applied Linguistics and is currently completing a PhD. He He has been a staff member of the Bureau de Coopération Linguistique of the French Embassy in Peru, and as...

Howard Bell

OAM LL.M PhD
Dr Howard Bell OAM, LL.M, PhD has taught in the fields of law, business and human rights for over thirty years through TAFE NSW and at community colleges and universities. He has taught social...

Carmel Bendon

BA (Hons), PhD
Dr Carmel Bendon is an academic, author and presenter on “all things medieval”. She has a PhD in Medieval Literature and a 1st Class Honours degree in Early English Literature, both from Macquarie...

Lanning Bennett

B.Bus
Lanning has over forty years experience as an entrepreneur, banker, musician, author and is a passionate global food traveller. Since the sale of his business in 2015 Lanning has pursed his...

Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya

PhD
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, BS, PhD, has taught in the fields of STEAM, including the history of mathematics and amusing mathematics, history of literature and creative writing and had taught in...

Michael Box

BSc, PhD
Michael has 30 years teaching University Physics at UNSW, with a special interest in Atmospheric Science and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, mostly in this field. He is the co-author of...

Giorgia Bresciani

Dip TESOL
Giorgia comes from a town close to Milan, in the North of Italy. She grew up happily surrounded by art and teaching environments thanks to her two parents. She finished her teaching Diploma...

Andy Bromberger

ASCM, BMus Perf
Andy Bromberger (ASCM, BMus Perf) performed professionally for a number of year as well as teaching clarinet, conducting and running band programmes. In 2010 she started a music history series...

Ian Bryce

BSc BEng (Hons)
Ian qualified at Monash University in science (BSc, physics) and engineering (BE Hons). His career has involved applying science to spaceflight for companies including Hawker de Havilland, Optus...

Luciana Buonanno

M.TI, B.Mod Lang/Linguistics
Luciana is a passionate language professional.  She has a Master in Translation and Interpreting Studies and a Bachelor in Modern Languages/Linguistics. Born and raised in Milan, Italy. Luciana...

Ian Burnet

BSc
Ian Burnet has a combined Bsc. In Geology and Geophysics and has an interest in maritime history and historic maps. He is the author of six books on maritime history and the Indonesian archipelago...

Mayra Camacho Ardila

BFL
Mayra Camacho is a Spanish tutor, who holds a bachelor's degree in foreign Languages Teaching. With more than 10 years’ experience, both in Colombia and Australia, Mayra has had the opportunity to...

Cilla Campbell

BFA
Cilla Campbell studied art at Julian Ashton Art School and then the National Art School. You can visit her website at www.cillacampbell.com

Perry Celestino

BA, MA
Perry Celestino, M.A. has been teaching with the WEA since 1985. He is a teaching anthropologist, musician, and traveller. Perry has offered over 100 different courses with the WEA on...

Franz Cheung

MA Studio Art
Franz Chi Lik Cheung was the lecturer in Chinese Art History in Macquarie University from 2014 until 2020. He specializes in Chinese calligraphy and painting, while he continues exploring art in a...

Michaela Clarkson

BA(Vis Arts). Art Cert.
Michaela Clarkson. B.A (Visual Arts) Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney University Alumnus. Art Certificate Hornsby TAFE. Michaela has been working, exhibiting and teaching in the field of...

John Coombs

BA (Hons)
John Coombs gained his BA (Hons) from the University of Wales in Welsh Language and Classical studies. He has since supplemented this with a BA in Classics from the University of New England. John...

Jan Cornall

M. Cultural and Creative Practice
Jan Cornall, MA.Cultural and Creative Practice, has taught writing at universities (UTS, UWS) community colleges (SCC, WEA) and writers centres for two decades. Jan loves to travel and has taken...

David Crawford

PhD, Grad.Dip Policy Studies
David Crawford PhD, Grad.Dip Policy Studies. A newcomer to WEA teaching, he has for several years facilitated Men's Wellbeing workshops. David is a professional public sector research writer of 30...

Isabella Croce

MEng, MTE
Isabella, MEng, MTE, was born in Milan, Italy. She holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s in Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship from the Swiss Federal Institute...

Blandine Crouch

After working on corporate identity and design in Paris, Blandine moved to Sydney where she began teaching French in the corporate environment, as well as translating for large companies. Blandine...

Liliane Cunliffe

BA, MTeach (FLE)
Liliane Cunliffe has an impressive academic background including a BA in Modern Literature and Languages from Paris XIII University, and a MA in Teaching French as a Foreign Language from the...

Jacqueline Curry

BA (Hons). Woven and Printed Textile Design
Jacqueline has been working as a designer in the textile industry for over 25 years in both Australia and the UK.  She has a love of texture fabric construction, colour and pattern. She uses a...

Olivia De Bergerac

PhD, MBA
Olivia de Bergerac was born on the French Riviera, lived in Paris and stated teaching French to business people while completing a PhD in French Literature and Psychology. In Australia Olivia was...

Susan Deas

B.Mus., M.Mus.
Susan Deas is a professional musician, lecturer and teacher. She has been teaching music appreciation courses for more than twenty years, and is a regular lecturer at WEA Sydney. Her training...

Yvette Debergue

BA (Hons), PhD
Dr Yvette Debergue has a passionate interest in all things medieval, especially Gothic architecture, medieval saints and heretics and historical fiction. She has taught medieval history and church...

Ana Delgado Prieto

M.Ed, M.Teach
Ana is a passionate language teacher with more than twenty years of work experience in the subjects of English and Spanish in Spain, England and Australia. She holds a Degree in Teaching, a...

Gianna Di Genua

My enthusiasm for teaching Italian stems way back to pre-computer days where we had to rely on the individual performance and the occasional use of photocopies and textbooks. Hence my style of...

Racho Donef

PhD
Dr Donef has completed two doctorates (Anthropology and Politics), as well as a number of other degrees inter alia in languages, social sciences and ancient history. Dr Donef specialised on...

Vicki Dwyer

M.Mus.
Vicki Dwyer holds a Master of Music in Contemporary Voice with over 30 years of teaching experience. In addition to her expertise as a singing teacher, she is a seasoned conductor, leading a...

Charles Fellner

BA, MMgt
Charles Fellner is a retired IT professional from Sydney. After seeing various friends being scammed, he wanted to do something to fight back. Rather than creating yet another website on the topic...

Behnam Fomeshi

MA, PhD
Behnam Fomeshi, PhD, MA, has taught in the fields of language and literature for over ten years and has taught at the WEA for the last two years. Behnam majored in literature. He is interested in...

Robert Forgacs

MA (Hons), PhD
Robert has been a casual lecturer, tutor and post-doctoral fellow at UNSW. He has taught at the WEA since 1992 and has also lectured for CCE at Sydney University, the North-side Opera Study Group,...

Michael Gal

PhD, Prof. Emeritus
Michael Gal is Professor Emeritus at the School of Physics of the University of NSW. He has been involved in research and teaching at UNSW for over 30 years. Prior to the UNSW, he worked at...

Lucia Garcia

B.Teach, M.AppLing
Lucia is a passionate Spanish teacher, she has been teaching for more than 8 years in Germany and Australia. She loves showing the students the Latino American culture through fun and engaging...

Matthew Gibbs

BEcon, GCertPubAff
Matthew Gibbs - BEcon, GCertPubAff - has worked as a speaker, writer, adviser and teacher in the financial services, education and cultural industries for over 30 years. He was the General Manager...

Christine Gietz

BA Dip Ed, Grad Cert in Uni Teaching
Christine Gietz, BA Dip Ed, Grad Cert in Uni Teaching, originally taught in secondary teaching in English, Drama and History and then taught in Education and Academic Writing at university and has...

Christine Graff

BALLB, Licence es Lettres
Christine has taught French in the UK, the US and Australia at secondary and tertiary levels. She has continued to teach and train adults through her professional life (WEA and Alliance from...

Anne Harbers

M. Arts (Art History), GCLT
Anne Harbers MA, MBA, MAppSc, GCLT, is an experienced presenter and writer in Art History and European Decorative Arts and has tutored at WEA for over 5 years as well as given talks to museums,...

Michael Hauptman

MBA, MEngSci
Michael Hauptman, MBA, MEngSci, has conducted walking tours of the Sydney CBD for over 15 years.  He is a keen amateur historian with a passion for studying the late 1800s and early 1900s, when so...

Peter Headley

BA, MA
Peter Headley, MA, BA has had a career mainly in the export sector globally covering over 40 years in fields such as food processing, renewable energy, environment management and Trade...

Jo Henwood

Grad Dip Mus St, M Cult Her
Jo Henwood, BA (Libr Sc), Tourism III Cert, Grad Dip Mus St, Grad Cert (Gifted Ed), M Cult Her, has done most of her teaching outside schools - museum education, gifted education, tour guiding,...

Christopher Horder

BFA (Hon), Dip Fine Arts
Christopher Horder is an acclaimed painter with over 25 years of experience painting and exhibiting. He holds an Honours degree in Painting from the National Art School and has showcased his...

Paul Howles

BA, PhD
Paul Howles, BA PhD, has taught at WEA for over five years. Majoring in ancient history, Near Eastern archaeology, and science, Paul is passionate about both the ancient world of the eastern...

Bob Hudson

PhD
Bob Hudson holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of Sydney. He has spent the past 15 years helping to compile UNESCO World Heritage dossiers for the ancient cities of Burma/Myanmar. A...

Anna Imbernon

MA
Anna is from Barcelona and she studied for a bachelor's degree in Classic Philology and two masters of education. She has taught Latin and Ancient Greek (among others) for over 16 years and...

Burkhard Jahnicke

PhD, MA (Hist)
Dr Burkhard Jahnicke is an independent scholar who is passionate about history. He has an MA in history, politics and law and a PhD in history from Hamburg University, Germany. Burkhard has taught...

Irene Jimenez

Irene Jimenez. Tutor of WEA Sydney

Ludamila Jin

Ludamila Jin. Tutor of WEA Sydney

Sigrid Kaly

CertTESOL NAATI
Sigrid Kaly was born and educated in Germany, where she obtained various diplomas from language schools as interpreter/translator. She came to Australia in 1957 and worked for 20 years as liaison...

Sandy Killick

Sandra Killick is a leading authority in democracy education, adaptive leadership & systems thinking. A skilled facilitator, she creates spaces where people can have challenging, messy, necessary...

Judith King

Dip Ed, MA
Judy King MA, Dip Ed has taught History and Politics at WEA since 2011. Before then, she taught HSC Modern History, Ancient History and English in NSW public schools for many years. She has also...

Robert Kowalski

PhD
Dr Robert Kowalski is a Scholar of Classics with extensive teaching experience. He has been teaching Latin, Classical Greek and Philosophy since 1984 at various educational providers including St...

Michaela Krenn

MA
Holding two Masters Degrees, Michaela is an academically qualified language teacher. Michaela conducts German lessons at various institutes, schools as well as universities in Sydney to adults and...

Karen Lane

BBus, BSc (Psych) Hons.
Karen Lane, BBus and BSc (Psych) Hons, has taught in the field of creative writing for over 10 years and has taught at WEA for the last six years. In 2012, Karen founded the Writers' Boot Camp...

Raphael Lataster

MAppFin, PhD
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,...

Diana Levy

BA DipEd.
Diana Levy, BA, Dip Ed. is an author, poet and walks leader in the Blue Mountains where she has lived for 34 years. A zen student for 45 years, she founded and led the Blue Mountains Yatras from...

Ying Liu

Ying Liu. Tutor of WEA Sydney

Marie-Christine Louis

BA, MA
Marie-Christine Louis, MA, BA, has taught French and ESL for over thirty years at Alliance Française in Sydney, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and in various schools of continuing education....

Suzanne MacAlister

BA (Hons), PhD
Dr Suzanne Macalister gained her BA Hons in both Modern and Ancient Greek, followed by her doctorate in Ancient Greek and Byzantine language and literature (University of Sydney); she became...

Alessandro Mariolini

BA, MA
Alessandro Mariolini is a language teacher from Northern Italy, where he obtained his degrees and started teaching. He continued to do so after arriving in Australia, WEA being one of the first...

Silvia Martinez Jimeno

BA (Int&Trans), PGCE
Silvia Martínez Jimeno, PGCE, BA (Int&Trans), has taught Spanish and French at the WEA for the last seven years. Most recently, Silvia has been accredited by Instituto Cervantes as a Spanish DELE...

John McBride

AM
John McBride AM, has taught at WEA in the field of Japanese history and art for over ten years.  John majored in Japanese classical literature at a major national university in Tokyo before...

Virginia McGill

BMus (Hons), PhD
Dr Virginia McGill, B.Mus (Hons), PhD, studied music at UNSW. The subject of her doctorate was opera but her musical interests are very broad. Her teaching experience is considerable. Virginia has...

John McIntyre

John McIntyre. Tutor of WEA Sydney

Blandine Midy Boutry

GradDip LOTE
Blandine Midy Boutry is an experienced French tutor with qualifications from the University of NSW (Cert. in Teaching French) and UTS (Graduate Diploma in Teaching French). She has been teaching...

Marco Migotto

LLB Dip Arts (Fine Arts), CELTA
Marco Migotto LLB Dip Arts (Fine Arts) CELTA has qualifications in language teaching and art history. He has worked as a translator, has taught Italian and English languages in Australia and...

Dominique Millar

MA
Dominique has two Master's degrees in Italian art history and art curatorship. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Sir William Dobell Scholarship for Classical Drawing and Painting at...

Linda Moctezuma

Linda Moctezuma has been an English Teacher in a Sydney High School for most of her career. She taught adults at WEA in the late 90's and recently completed a Masters by Research degree in English...

Tibor Molnar

Tibor Molnar studied Chemical Engineering at UNSW in the 1960s, but then forged a career in IT and business. Retired in 2003, he now pursues a wide range of interests: from physics and...

Valeria Morelli

BA, MA
Valeria Morelli, MA BA, has been teaching languages and literatures for over ten years and has been teaching at the WEA since 2019. Valeria graduated in European and Pan-American Languages and...

Sally Morris

PhD
Dr Sally Morris has a BA with 1st class Honours and PhD from Macquarie University and a Diploma of Fine Arts from COFA (Uni. NSW). Sally specialises in the comparative study of ancient Egyptian,...

Adrian Muir

BA(Hons), Dip Ed.
Adrian Muir is a history teacher with 30 years of classroom experience. His major interests are 20th century Germany, World War One, 20th century global politics and popular culture. When Adrian...

Masafumi NAITO

BEng, MEd
Masafumi Naito (Masa) started his Japanese class experience as a volunteer assistant in 2000, and has been teaching various courses of Japanese language and culture mainly to adults. Since he...

Michael Newton

MA
Michael Newton gained his initial degree in Medieval and Ancient History from St Andrews University in Scotland. After pursuing a business career based in the Middle East, he joined the University...

Rodney Nillsen

PhD, DSc
Rodney Nillsen PhD DSc, has had a wide experience of teaching, research, and exposition in mathematics over forty-plus years. As an undergraduate he studied mathematics, science and literature.  ...

Leonie Norton

BA(VisArt), BFA(Hons)
Leonie Norton, BA(VisArt), BA Fine Arts (Hons) Plant & Wildlife Illustration, Graduate Diploma VET (Adult Ed) and Cert IV in Assessment & Workplace Training. She has taught various workshops and...

Lindsay Nunez Lopez

Dip (Tourism), BA (Translation)
Lindsay Nunez, Diploma of Travel and Tourism, Certified Teacher of Spanish as a foreign language, has worked in the tourism industry for over ten years and has taught at the WEA for the last year....

Fiona O'Beirne

B. Visual Arts
Fiona O'Beirne, B. Visual Arts, a Post-Grad Dip in Professional Arts Studies and has worked and taught in the field of Art for nearly 40 years, and has taught at WEA for the last thirty years....

Nahla O'Waisha

BA, MA
Nahla is a highly experienced Arabic teacher who has been with WEA since 2017. With over 18 years of experience teaching across a wide range of ages, she studied at the University of Damascus and...

Chris Pedersen

Chris is currently CEO of Pedersen Asset Management and Chair of Democrats Abroad in Australia. He has taught courses and presented at seminars for over 30 years including at NY University...

Roberto Pettini

BA (Hons)
Roberto Pettini is one of Sydney's most experienced Italian teachers. His tutoring experience includes over three decades teaching at the University of Sydney with the Centre of Continuing...

James Pulbrook-Flynn

James is specialising in Italian Studies and Arabic Studies at the University of Melbourne and has travelled Italy with academics from the university. In addition to this, he has also extensively...

Michael Pyne

MA, MEd, PhD
Michael has been teaching history for over 40 years, from high school to university level. He has written or co-written 13 history text books including HSC texts on the Arab/Israeli conflict and...

Eva-Britt Rogerson

Eva-Britt Rogerson, Certificate in Language Teaching, has taught Swedish for 15 years and has taught at WEA for the last 12 years. She teaches all ages and levels of Swedish. She has a keen...

Valentina Romeo

MA, Dip Language Teaching
Valentina Romeo, MA, Dip Language Teaching, has taught Italian at every level in Italy, Sydney and London since 2010 and has taught at the WEA for the last five years. She really enjoys...

Royal Australian Historical Society

The Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS), Australia's oldest historical organisation founded in Sydney in 1901, promotes the study of Australian history. The Society organises events,...

Kerry Sanders

BA (Hons), PhD
Dr Kerry Sanders gained her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Her specialist areas are: Aesthetics, Phenomenology, Postmodernism and Political Philosophy. She has formerly taught at...

Rebecca Scott

Dip.Op.Arts, MAMT
In 1991 Rebecca graduated as an opera singer from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a Diploma in Operatic Arts (DOA). She worked and lived in London and Europe for 13 years as a professional...

Almis Simans

Almis is an avid traveller who has walked many of the traditional European trails. Making the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain inspired Almis to write Santiago – Walking the Pilgrim...

Beatrice Siragusa

MA. Conference Interpreting
Beatrice holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Interlinguistic Communication and a Master's Degree in Specialized Translation and Conference Interpreting (with a focus on Italian, French and...

Judith Sleijpen

Cert III Hort (Dis)
Judith Sleijpen graduated from Ryde School of Horticulture with distinction in Urban Horticulture and gained experience in the retail nursery industry for several years. She now conducts her...

Brendan Smith

MFA, Dip Arts
Brendan Vivian Smith (MFA, Dip Arts) is an exhibiting artist showing nationally & internationally since 1986. His work is held in significant national public and private collections. He has taught...

Anke Stacker

MA VisArts, BA DipFA
Anke Stacker, MA Visual Arts, BA in Media Arts, has taught photography and art appreciation at the WEA since 2010. She works as an independent photo media artist with a special interest in the...

Bill Steenson

BA, LLM, Public Admin
After completing an undergraduate degree majoring in history, Bill undertook law studies and now holds a Masters in Law and a Master of Public Administration, as well as the Certificate IV in...

Jennifer Strachan

BA (Hons), DipEd
Jenny Strachan is an award winning author, corporate trainer and conference presenter who has presented across Australia and in eight Asian countries. She was closely involved in training the...

Linda Swinfield

Linda Swinfield. Tutor of WEA Sydney

Erica Tamm

BA Ling
Erica grew up in Uddevalla, Sweden, but has lived in Sydney since 2017. She is passionate about language education and has several years of experience teaching Swedish to both adults and...

Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor. Tutor of WEA Sydney

Maria Teixeira-Alves

Maria Teixeira-Alves studied Germanic Philology at Porto University in Portugal before coming to Australia where she graduated from the University of Sydney with a major in Linguistics and then...

Pernilla Thakur-Lundqvist

Pernilla has an Advanced Certificate in Language Teaching and has been working as a teacher since 2014. Currently, she serves as the Headteacher (Principal) at the Swedish School in Sydney,...

Sonya Thompson

MALP, MA
Sonya Thompson, MA, MALP, has taught in the subject areas of history and politics for over thirty years, much of that time with the WEA. Sonya holds postgraduate degrees in history, law and...

John Tidmarsh

MA (Hons), PhD
Dr John Tidmarsh was formerly President of the University of Sydney's Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation and currently Chairman, Executive Committee of the Australian Archaeological Institute at...

Graziella Trafeli

GDLIS
Graziella Trafeli (GDLIS - Graduate Diploma of Library and Information Studies, Australia) is a native speaker of Italian residing in Australia since the mid-1980s. She has led a vast range of...

Hugh Tranter

BA, MA
Hugh Tranter is an author and historian, with interests in creative writing and the research and examination of Australian history.

Vivian Tse

BA, Grad Cert in Tesol
Vivian, BA, Grad Cert in Tesol, is an innovative teacher with 30 years of teaching experience. She has taught English and Arts and Crafts in both Hong Kong and Australia. Among her students are...

Mia Tsikrikas

BA (Hons), MTeach
Mia Tsikrikas, (Master of Teaching, BA (Honours Class I)), has taught English Literature for the past six years and has been at the WEA since mid-2022. She majored in eighteenth-century...

Silvia Tullio

Silvia is a native Italian speaker. She grew up in a small town close to Milan, then she moved to Madrid and in 2012 she came to Sydney. She received a Bachelor Degree in Marketing and Public...

Penelope Vakalopoulos

BA (Hons)
A linguaphile and literary enthusiast, Penelope Vakalopouls is proficient in the literacies of Modern Greek, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Indonesian. She has a B-ARTS from the University of...

Rocco Vitale

Rocco is from Livorno, Italy. He has gained extensive life experiences through his travels learning languages such as English while in Ireland, Spanish while in Spain and Portuguese while in...

John Walsh

After working as an osteopath in the UK for 16 years John realised a life-long dream and went to China to study Tai Chi for three-and-a-half years, receiving his teaching certificate in Tai Chi &...

Graham Watson

DipAD (Distinction)
Graham Watson. DipAD (Distinction), has lectured and been an assessor at various Art Colleges in the UK, including Glasgow Art College, Manchester Art College, St.Martin’s College of Art in London...

Roy Williams

BA, LLB (Hons)
Roy Williams has taught at Sydney University Law School for the past six years. Before that he practiced as a commercial litigation lawyer in Sydney for twenty years before turning his hand to...

David Wilson

BA, MSc
David Wilson, BA, MSc is a retired ADF officer with 47 years of service and a lifelong interest in all periods of military history. His main area of expertise is WWI and the Anzac campaigns at...

Elaine Witton

Guild Member ASC BEd (Adult)
Elaine Witton BEd (Adult), Guild member ASC, has taught calligraphy and allied crafts face-to-face and online in Australia and Europe for over 30 years. She has taught at WEA since 1990. Elaine...

Jennifer Yang

Jennifer Yang was awarded her BA in English literature from Heilongjiang University in North China and awarded her Master’s degree in English literature from Beijing Foreign Language College. She...

Ray Younis

MA (Hons), DPhil
Ray Younis was educated at the University of Sydney (BA Hons. MA Hons.) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). He has over 30 years of teaching experience at Oxford, the University of Sydney and...

Sofya Yunusova

PhD, MA
Sofya Yunusova is a Sydney-based language educator and researcher. She holds a PhD in Russian Studies from Macquarie University and a qualification in Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language from...