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BA(Hons) Sydney, EdD UTS, GradCertTESOL UNSW
Director
Alison has been teaching diverse student groups in the Australian higher education sector for over twenty years. Initially, she taught English language to students and migrants in Sydney based college and TAFE programs. In 1996, she began lecturing in Communications subjects at Sydney universities, including CQUniversity. Alison’s doctoral research was the development, implementation and evaluation of an intercultural sensitivity and awareness program for academic staff. Alison actively researches and publishes in the field of intercultural and international education with a particular focus on learning in a second language. She has been the recipient of a series of internal grants aiming to explore and develop pedagogical and organisational strategies and products that can enhance academic success for culturally diverse students. Alison works with industry partners researching and reporting on cultural alignment in offshoring business processes and delivers cross-cultural training in various workplace contexts. Currently, Alison is lead researcher in several projects examining the following topics: improving international and domestic student integration; understanding the impact of Australian education and culture on the professional experiences of Indian women and second-language creative writing development.
Associate Professor Owens is available for media commentary: (02) 8295 5020.
Email: a.owens@cqu.edu.au
BEd, IKIP Padang Indonesia, GradDipTESOL, Canberra, MA Canberra, PhD Monash
Research Fellow, Melbourne Campus
Erlenawati completed her PhD in Language and Education at Monash University in 2003, then worked as a Research Fellow at Monash Centre for Research in International Education, Monash University (2003-mid 2006) and in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne (mid 2006-2008).
Erlenawati's primary research focus is on international education in the context of globalization. She has contributed to a number of research projects: (1) Investigation of the social and economic security of international students in Australia and in New Zealand (funded by the Institute for the Study of Global Movements at Monash and later by the Australian Research Council). (2) University leaders' strategies in the global environment (Monash University Small Grant held jointly with Professor Simon Marginson now at The University of Melbourne, and later an ARC Discovery Grant); Erlenawati conducted research interviews in universities in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Canada. (3) University staff understanding of international students and intercultural teaching and learning (University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant). (4) Internationalizing Secondary School Education in Victoria (with colleagues at the University of Melbourne). The research was funded by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. (5) Internationalising higher education institutions: Academic staff perspectives (funded by the International Education Research Centre, CQUniversity).
Erlenawati has published research-based articles in the Asian EFL Journal, Australian Journal of Education, International Education Journal, Higher Education, Journal of Studies in International Education, Journal of Asia Pacific Education, Higher Education Policy, International Journal for Academic Development, and Global Social Policy. Together with the long-standing research team working on international student security in Australia and in New Zealand, which began at Monash University but now spans four universities, she is a co-author of three books on international student security. The first book ‘International student Security' was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010, the second book ‘Ideas for Intercultural Education' will be published by MacMillan Palgrave in late 2011. For a list of Erlenawati's publications, click here.
Dr Sawir is available for media commentary: (03) 8662 0880.
Email: e.sawir@cqu.edu.au
BElecEng(Hons) University of Antioquia Colombia, MEng(ICT) RMIT
Adjunct Research Fellow, Melbourne campus.
Edilson is a Senior Lecturer at CQUniversity, Melbourne International Campus where he teaches in the Postgraduate and Undergraduate programmes of the Faculty of Business and Informatics
Edilson has extensive experience in managing and delivering university curricula using asynchronous technologies. His teaching experience has been implemented in areas such as Software Engineering, Networks, TCP/IP, Data Communications, Multimedia Systems Design and Development, C++ Programming, Operating Systems, and Digital Telecommunications.
Edilson was for many years the head of the Department of the Engineering Division with a major international broadcast quality television and audio recording company.
Edilson is currently undertaking a PhD at Deakin University in the field of blended learning. Specifically, this qualitative study aims to improve our understanding of how international computing students and their teachers perceive the integration of multicultural classroom face-to-face learning experiences with asynchronous online learning experiences in the context of higher education.
Edilson's current IERC-related project aims to investigate how academics' attitudes to teaching affect their approaches to teaching in the context of a multicultural student body.
Edilson is a member of the Audio Engineering Society and the IEEE Computer Society.
Email: e.arenas@mel.cqu.edu.au
BHospMgt Mangalore, GradDipInfSys, MInfSys CQUniversity, MACS
Adjunct Research Fellow, Melbourne campus.
Ritesh lectures in the Faculty of Business and Informatics at CQUniversity's Melbourne International Campus. He teaches to both postgraduate and undergraduate students in the fields of Information Systems (IS) Management and Development, IS Project Management, and Electronic Commerce. Ritesh has been awarded CQUniversity's 2007 Faculty/Pro-Vice-Chancellors' portfolios/AIC Tier One Award for teaching excellence and the CQUniversity's Melbourne teaching excellence award for 2008.
His range of interests includes project management, knowledge management, electronic commerce and developing varied teaching and learning practices on a formal note and philately and numismatics on a more casual note.
Currently, he is working towards a doctoral degree from Victoria University that will develop a model to enhance tacit knowledge transfer and make knowledge ubiquitous. His research for IERC is focussed on comparative educational practices in the higher education sector.
Ritesh is a member of the Australian Computer Society, IEEE, and IEEE's Computer Society.
Email: r.chugh@mel.cqu.edu.au
Professor David Hamilton
BSc (Hons) UTas, BA GIAE, GCTert Tchg UB, GD Bus (Mgmt) UB, M Ed Admin (Tert) UNE, PhD ANU, TTC Tas
Adjunct Professor, CQUniversity and Senior Research Associate, Melbourne Campus
David has held academic positions at universities in Australia since 1968, including ANU, University of Ballarat, University of Tasmania and TCAE and contributed to programmes of other universities as a casual staff member. He has also taught in both the TAFE sectors in Canberra and Hobart and in the secondary sector in Melbourne and Hobart (including public and private sector schools). He has worked closely with a number of industries in his academic capacity, including the honey industry as a Honey Research Council Member, in the timber and timber design industries, the seaweed industry, the malting and brewing industry and in facets of agriculture as a prime mover of a Food Crop Development Centre, being a collaborative enterprise between the university, government agriculture and industry sectors. His research has encompassed environmental studies, plant physiology, biotechnology, waste management and teaching and learning. Currently his main teaching focus is on management, especially human resource management.
David's main current research focus is on researching the factors contributing to the performance of university students, especially international students. He has previously published in this area and over the last few years has been consolidating the design and implementation of instruments to allow students and academic staff to simultaneously evaluate the learning and teaching environment on academic campuses efficiently and effectively. This approach is now recorded on the CQUniversity Good Practice database. There is now an extensive database of results and reporting processes are now routine. Early analysis of the data is revealing novel insights into the perceptions of students and staff about courses and teaching and finding relationships to performance and behaviours which, it is planned, will enable focus on practice to optimise student performance. Papers on the instrument, the process and the outcomes are in preparation. David's research is especially topical as there is increasing Australian and global interest in finding valid ways to evaluate teaching and programmes in universities and schools
Email: d.hamilton@mel.cqu.edu.au
Professor Hamilton is available for media commentary: (03) 8662 0808
BEc (Hons), PhD Sydney
Adjunct Research Fellow, Sydney Campus
Chris Keane has been teaching and researching in the Australian higher education sector for more than ten years. An economics graduate of Sydney University, he has taught widely in the field of social sciences including Australian political economy, economic history, human resource management and industrial relations. Since 1997 he has lectured and tutored to a diverse student body at the University of New South Wales; Sydney University and the University of Western Sydney. He is currently employed as a full time lecturer in Economics at Sydney Campus of CQUniversity.
He has made significant contributions to the academic profession in recent years. He has attended and presented research papers at a several academic conferences and recently acted as a stream chair at an international business and economics conference held in Thailand. He has fulfilled the role and responsibility of Course Coordination in Economics at CQUniversity and is actively promoting CQUniversity's staff and academic profile by researching and writing feature articles for CQUniversity News.
He has also acted as an academic manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Organization and Management. In 2008 he had a peer reviewed article published in the June issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy.
Currently he is engaged in researching the orientation of undergraduate and postgraduate students to higher education studies at CQUniversity. He is interested in exploring the internationalisation experience of the two student groups and their diverse motives for pursuing higher education in Australia. This research project intends to look at the concept of student identity and the tension between self-formation and other-formation as international students attempt to make the transition to a different national educational culture.
Email: c.keane@syd.cqu.edu.au
BSocSc, Grad Cert Bus Admin Southern Cross.
Adjunct Research Fellow, Sydney Campus
Susan Loomes has been working in the education sector for nearly 20 years. She graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science (Major in Human Resource Development) at Southern Cross University in 2003 and is undertaking a Master of Business Research through Wollongong University. This research will form the basis of her doctoral studies.
Susan has worked at CQUniversity Sydney campus since 2005, previously as the Associate Director Administration and now as State Director, NSW. Prior to this, Susan worked at Southern Cross University for twelve years in varied roles including Community Relations and Alumni Coordinator and Registrar, The Hotel School Sydney. Her passion is providing the best educational experience for students.
Another area of interest is applied research that adds value to educational experience for students. She co-presented a paper with Dr Alison Owen at the Tertiary Education Management (TEMC) Conference in 2007: Seeing Students as Customers: Can a Customer Service Approach Improve the Satisfaction Levels of International Student in Australian University, and in 2009, Enhancing the social integration of international students in Australian Universities: strategies for sustaining a quality international student experience. Further research from this paper was recently published in the Journal of Higher Education and Policy Management.
Susan ensures that students at CQUniversity have a whole experience and has implemented initiatives to the campus where students are involved in environmental issues, community engagement and social activities.
Email: s.loomes@syd.cqu.edu.au
BEc LLB (Hons) Macquarie, Grad Dip Practical Legal Training (College of Law, Sydney),
Solicitor (NSW, High Court of Australia), Solicitor and Barrister (Vic), PhD UNSW
Adjunct Research Fellow, Sydney Campus
Michael has been teaching at various universities in Australia since 1989. He has held academic positions at Monash University, UNSW, University of Sydney, and the University of Wollongong. He has been a visiting Professor at Stanford Law School in the USA and Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada. He has been a permanent member of academic faculty at CQUniversity, Sydney campus since 2002. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate law courses across the curriculum. Michael also has extensive experience as a consultant especially to government agencies, the professions and the community sector specialising in professional and applied ethics and the relationship between law and ethics. In the mid 1990s he spent a year as full time ethicist with the St James Ethics Centre, Sydney. He regularly gives presentations on law and ethics at Australian national nursing conferences.
Michael is currently a lecturer, in the Faculty of Arts, Business and Informatics based at the Sydney campus. His main area of teaching focus is postgraduate Business Law.
Email: m.nancarrow@syd.cqu.edu.au
Dr Nancarrow is available for media commentary: (02) 9324 5780.
Dr Arun Patil
Dr Arun Patil MIEAust, CPEng
PhD Monash, MEngSc Monash, MSc (Shivaji), BSc (Shivaji)
Lecturer in Engineering, CQUniversity, Mackay Campus
Dr Arun Patil is a lecturer in Engineering at the CQUniversity, Mackay, Australia. Prior to this position, Arun was a research scholar in the Faculty of Engineering of Monash University, Australia. His PhD research project focuses on the Development of a Global Accreditation Model for the Quality Assurance of Higher Education, with Engineering as a Case Study. He has over 18 years of teaching and administrative experience in India and Australia in higher and further education.
Arun has published widely, and his publications include refereed journals, conference papers, book chapters and academic books. He is a Founder Editor-in-Chief of the "International Journal of Quality Assurance in Engineering and Technology Education". His recently published book, Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective is highly accepted and cited scholarly publication in engineering education community around the globe. Arun has organised over a dozen of international conferences in engineering education in various parts of the globe.
BCom(Econ) UNSW, GradCertDR, GradDipTaxation UWS, GradDipAcctg Macquarie, MBA UNE, FTIA, CPA(Practising)
Adjunct Research Fellow, Sydney.
Fred is Associate Director (Academic) at the Sydney International Campus where he teaches in the postgraduate accounting and management programs. His primary research interest is the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Prior to joining the Sydney International Campus at the beginning of 2006, Fred was a sessional lecturer from 1992 - 2005 inclusive. He taught Taxation Law, Sports Law, Tourism Law, and Ethics at the UWS Macarthur School of Law from its inception until the end of 2005. Fred is a member of the following academic organisations:
A Professional CPA and Registered Tax Agent, Fred practised as an international tax and business consultant from offices in Sydney, London, Limassol (Cyprus) and Nassau (The Bahamas). He was formerly Director of Taxes in the NSW offices of two of the "Big 4" international accounting firms and a director of Australian and international companies. Fred has a 30-year record of professional publication and presentations.
His professional research interests centre upon business ethics, governance and taxation. At the CPA 2010 Congress sessions in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne he presented a Master Class on risk management lessons from the GFC.
Email: f.rollo@syd.cqu.edu.au
BA(Hons), DipEd, PhD Newcastle, LLB Macquarie
Adjunct Research Fellow, Sydney Campus
Irene began her teaching career in primary and secondary education before moving on to tertiary education in 1990. Irene completed her first PhD in political philosophy in 1994 at Newcastle University and is currently completing her second PhD in environmental law at Macquarie University.
Irene has been at the Sydney Campus since April 2005. She began in the Learning Skills Unit and then joined the academic team in June of that year. Irene has been lead lecturer in company law, commercial law and contract law and is currently the course coordinator for company law. She has also taught a variety of other subjects at the Sydney Campus, including Science Fiction and Film, Culture and Communication and Principles of University Learning.
Irene's interests lie in human rights and the environment. She represented Vienna University at a Human Rights Convention in Venice, Italy in 2004 and also worked as a legal advisor for asylum seekers while living in Vienna.
Irene's research project for IERC follows the career goals and expectations of female business students from India who are currently studying at the Sydney Campus and intend to repatriate. The study aims to identify whether the career goals and expectations of these students are realised upon repatriation and whether a western education has enhanced their career opportunities.
Email: i.hoetzer@syd.cqu.edu.au
CQUniversity CRICOS Provider Codes: QLD-00219C; NSW-01315F; VIC-01624D
