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...
Pilar Alejandro
BEd, MA
Pilar is a qualified teacher specialising in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (MA Nebrija University, Spain). Pilar holds a Bachelor of Education from the Sacred Heart University...
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 is an Accredited Member of Yoga Australia (fomerly SYTA) and has been teaching yoga for 25 years. Her teaching background expands into many areas including yoga programs for the Crown...
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...
Charmayne Banks
BEd, MMusTech
Charmayne Banks, M MTECH, B Ed has taught Music for over 40 years and has taught at the WEA for the last eight years. Charmayne specialised in Music Education and focuses on teaching students how...
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...
Julie Blair
BA DipEd
Julie Blair is an experienced teacher of English, French and ESL, recently retired. Her lifelong love of language and literature has led, by extension, to an interest in cryptic crosswords, in...
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...
Francesco Borghesi
PhD
Francesco Borghesi holds degrees from the University of Bologna (Italy) and Brown University (USA). He is currently the Chair of the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Sydney,...
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...
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
Jessica Carey-Bunning
BA (Hons)
Jessica is a historian who is passionate about medieval and Tudor history. She graduated with Honours in History from the University of Sydney in 2018, at which time she ran a WEA course on the...
Joseph Castley
BA
Joseph Castley studied English at the University of Melbourne and then for five years was a tutor at the University of Sydney. Then for thirty three years he taught Senior English at St Ignatius...
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...
Judith Chant
PhD
Dr Judy Chant has worked extensively in the Higher Education sector in international education and development anthropology. She has worked and travelled widely throughout Asia, especially in...
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 20 years in Australia and the UK with a degree in Woven Textile Design who has a love of fabric construction, yarns and...
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 and at other...
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...
Deborah Doyle
BA
Deb Doyle is a leading trainer in editing, writing, grammar and punctuation, and proofreading. She works with employees in companies, government departments and business entities as well as...
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...
Ekaterina Escobar
BEd, PhD
Ekaterina Escobar is a Sydney-based language educator and researcher, with more than ten years' experience of teaching English and Russian in a University and language centre environment....
Gregory Flannery
PhD
Greg has a PhD in Linguistics from Macquarie University. He has been lecturing and tutoring at various universities for the last ten years. While completing his BA (Hons) degree in Linguistics at...
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...
Jo Gerk
Cert. IV Tourism (Guiding)
Jo Gerk is an Australian certified tour guide, who was born and raised in Germany. After years of moving back and forth between Germany and Australia, he finally settled in NSW in 2002. After a...
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...
Douglas Golding
MA, PhD
Dr Douglas Golding is a lifelong student and teacher of comparative religion and of Australian and American history. He has travelled widely and studied in the Middle East, as well as in Australia...
Nick Gordon
BA (Hons) PhD
Nick has a University Medal and a PhD in History from the University of Sydney. He has taught Italian and European history at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney, has run...
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,...
Christelle Hart
BTS, M AppLang
Christelle grew up in France. She holds a Master in Applied Languages from the University of Angers and a BTS in translation and interpreting. She has been teaching French for over 25 years to...
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...
Karen Hendrix
Karen Hendrix is a osteoarchaeologist and has studied human skeletons from archaeological sites for the last 25 years in Australia and the Middle East. She has travelled and excavated in numerous...
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,...
Cavan Hogue
BA MAppLing
Cavan Hogue’s academic qualifications come from the University of Sydney (BA), and Macquarie University (Master of Applied Linguistics). For two years, he was a Fellow at the Centre for...
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 has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney, majoring in Ancient History and Near Eastern archaeology, and a PhD in molecular biology from the Australian National University....
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...
Tony Johansen
BA, Dip. Fine Arts
Tony Johansen, artist, photographer, sculptor, poet, printmaker, and art teacher for 30 years. Former Director of East Sydney Academy of Art, Tony previously taught art at Julian Ashton Art...
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...
Esther Lamb
BA Drama (Hons), B. Ed
Esther Lamb was educated at the University of Adelaide (BA Drama. Hons) and University of SA (B. Ed). She has 20 years drama, theatre and film teaching experience across Australia and is the...
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...
Luisa Lara
Luisa Lara has more the 10 years' experience teaching Spanish. She has Degree in Art and Education, also a Diploma as a Technician Librarian. Luisa enjoys teaching Spanish because loves the...
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...
Luana Lima
Luana Lima, a dedicated and passionate educator with a proven track record of success in tutoring students of all ages and backgrounds, brings their expertise to WEA as a Portuguese teacher. As a...
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...
Ian Michie
PhD
Ian Michie, PhD (Ancient History), MA (Orthodox Christian Theology), MA (International Relations), has been a university tutor of Byzantine history, a high school teacher of history and world...
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...
John Misto
BA LL.B
John Misto, BA LL.B, has been a prominent Australian playwright and scriptwriter for over 30 years. Six of John’s plays have had successful seasons at Sydney’s Ensemble Theatre. His most acclaimed...
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...
Jill Murray
PhD
Dr Jill Murray is a language teacher, teacher educator and academic. She currently lectures in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University and is a member of the Multilingualism Research...
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...
Aidan Nathan
PhD
Aidan Nathan gained a PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Sydney in 2020. He has a background in philosophy and specialises in ancient Greek philosophy. Aidan has taught in the...
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...
Tomoko Onozuka
BA
Tomoko is an experienced Japanese language teacher and has been teaching a variety of courses in primary, secondary and community language school since she moved to Sydney from Japan. She has a...
Alec Pemberton
PhD
Alec is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney and has published many papers and books on issues of social policy.
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 a HSC text on the Arab/Israeli conflict. His...
Ulrike Rehr-Dodds
BA, MA
Ulrike Rehr-Dodds gained her academic qualifications from the University of Goettingen, followed by the award of appropriate translating skills (German to Spanish). Her initial specialisation was...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 &...
Denise Weelands
BA, LLB, LLM
Denise Weelands, BA, LLB, LLM taught in welfare, social work , criminology and policing courses at Western Sydney University for 20 years. Her practice is to provide a short overview of the...
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...
Marivic Wyndham
BA (Hons.), PhD
A Cuban-American-Australian, Marivic Wyndham did her studies at the Australian National University in Canberra, including her PhD (1996) on Australian history and culture. She worked for eighteen...
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...