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Dr Karen Brooks
Education Consultant, Social Commentator, Author
Described as ‘Australia’s best known academic’ by ABC radio and a ‘celebrity academic’ by other media, Karen lectures on the areas of youth, sexuality and popular culture using a psychoanalytical model. Karen has also worked as a professional actress, a children’s playwright, an Army Officer in the Royal Australian Army Survey Corp, a checkout-chick, an assessment clerk with the NRMA, a waitress, a dress-boutique manager, a theatre director, a wife (twice), and a mother (twice over too!).
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Thomas Caldwell
Author, Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist
Thomas Caldwell is a freelance writer, broadcaster and public speaker who specialises in film criticism and educational writing on film. He is the author of the secondary school textbook Film Analysis Handbook, he writes the film criticism blog Cinema Autopsy and he reviews films for the Breakfasters on Melbourne independent community radio station Triple R (3RRR 102.7FM). He also co-hosts the Triple R film criticism podcast Plato’s Cave, regularly reviews films for The Big Issue and is one of the film and television columnists for Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog.
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Paul Callaghan
Author, Education Consultant
Paul Callaghan has worked in game development for over 10 years as a programmer, designer, teacher, and writer. His interests include games and literacy, storytelling, design, and intersection of learning and play and creative expression through interaction.
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Dr Michael Carr-Gregg
Personal Development, Education Consultant
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia’s highest profile psychologists. He has worked in private practice and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. His PhD on adolescents with cancer – completed at the University of NSW – resulted in the formation of CanTeen, a support group for teenagers with cancer.
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Chris Daicos
Education Consultant, Personal Development, Social Commentator
As a trained social worker and teacher Chris Daicos has extensive experience in working directly with children and adolescents in schools. Chris can talk to welfare staff, teaching staff, and parents.
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Paul Dillon
Author, Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator
Paul Dillon has a unique investment in the wellbeing of young people. Founder of Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia and a former school teacher, Paul continues to conduct drug information sessions and workshops for school students across Australia and internationally, in countries as diverse as the UK, the Phillipines, and Indonesia.
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Evelyn Field
Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator
Evelyn Field is an international expert in managing school and workplace bullying.
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Karen Ford
Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist
Karen Ford (B.Ed, MA) is a senior English teacher with 26 years’ experience. She holds a Masters in Cinema from LaTrobe University and has lectured at LaTrobe University and the Victorian College of the Arts. Karen is a Clinical Specialist with the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.
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Nina Funnell
Education Consultant, Social Commentator, Inspirational Speaker
Nina Funnell is a freelance opinion writer and researcher. She has had work published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Age, The Brisbane Times and in the Sydney Star Observer. Nina often writes on gender and sexuality related issues and also sits on the board of the NSW Rape Crisis Centre, the Premier’s Council on Preventing Violence Against Women and the National Children and Youth Law Centre. In 2010, she also received the Australian Human Rights Commission Community Individual Award for her work in advocacy against sexual assault and violence.
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Maggie Hamilton
Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator, Author
Writer, publisher and social researcher Maggie Hamilton gives talks and lectures, is a regular media commentator and a keen observer of social trends. Her many books have been published in Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Italy, the Arab States, Lithuania and Brazil, and include What Men Don’t Talk About, What’s Happening to Our Girls?, and now What Happening to Our Boys? which looks at the 21st century challenges of our boys.
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Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson
Personal Development, Education Consultant
Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson is the Principal of the School of Thinking (SOT). He is a former colleague of Edward de Bono and holds the world’s first PhD in Lateral Thinking. SOT is the longest running global program for the teaching of thinking skills.
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Bec Kavanagh
Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist
Bec Kavanagh is a reviewer, freelance writer & YA fiction specialist. She is the founder of A Thousand Words Festival, which celebrates and encourages the reading and writing of young adult fiction. In 2010 she appeared at the Melbourne Writers Festival and AussieCon4 (the 68th World Science Fiction Convention).
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John Kilner
Education Consultant, Journalist, Curriculum Specialist
John Kilner is a well known expert in the fields of media issues, writing analysis and persuasive writing. He has worked for The Age for nineteen years, much of that time for the Education supplement.
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Bernie Monagle
Author, Personal Development, Education Consultant, Inspirational Speaker
Bernie regularly runs workshops for teachers and writers, describing himself as a Storyteller, Writer, Educator. He frequently visits schools and talks to students in schools about writing stories and living stories. His own story is inspirational. A gifted communicator, he never fails to engage and inspire his audience.
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Dr Michael Nagel
Author, Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator
Dr Michael Nagel is an Associate Professor and the Head of Education Programs in the School of Science in Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Dr Nagel teaches and researches in the areas of cognition, behaviour and learning and human development and early learning.
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Josh Nelson
Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist, Author
Josh Nelson (BCA Hons, PhD) has worked as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and Victoria University, and has extensive experience presenting to secondary schools on a number of film and media-related topics. He has appeared on Triple R as a guest reviewer for Film Buffs Forecast, and his writing has been published in Screening The Past, Arts Hub and on his website, Philmology. Josh is currently working on a number of film projects.
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Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Author, Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator
Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli has gained national and international recognition as a writer, researcher, lecturer and consultant in the issues of cultural diversity, gender diversity, sexual diversity, family diversity, HIV/AIDS, and social diversity in health and education, with a specific focus on adolescence and young people. She is Honorary Patron of PFLAG Victoria; External Faculty Member of Saybrook University in San Francisco and Founding Member of AGMC (Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council), which has been recognised as a member of FECCA (Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia). Her first novel has recently won a 2010 US Lambda Literary Award
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Tony Thompson
Author, Education Consultant, Curriculum Specialist
Tony Thompson is a Melbourne based writer and teacher. He has written two non fiction books for teenagers. His articles on education have appeared in The Age and The Australian.
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Robyn Treyvaud
Education Consultant, Social Commentator
Robyn is specialist consultant at the Centre for Strategic Education working with schools and their communities nationally and internationally in the area of cybersafety. She has had 30 years teaching, curriculum development and school leadership experience in both the government and independent systems.
Robyn is an innovator, leader and team member of large scale projects in Australia and is acknowledged as an expert in cybersafety by her peers and wider community.
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Pelissa Tsilimidos-Thorne
Curriculum Specialist, Education Consultant
Pelissa Tsilimidos-Thorne (B.A., Dip. Ed., MA. Ed.) is a senior English teacher with 25 years’ experience. She holds a research Masters in Education (Film as Text) from Monash University and has written for various educational journals and books.
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Lili Wilkinson
Author, Education Consultant, Inspirational Speaker
Lili Wilkinson is a reader and writer of YA literature. She is the author of five books for teenagers. When she’s not reading or writing, she can often be found making monsters out of wool.
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Steve Biddulph
Personal Development, Education Consultant, Social Commentator, Author
Psychologist Steve Biddulph realised that males were in crisis at a time when it was fashionable to ignore their needs. He blitzed schools and communities around the globe with engaging, practical and moving seminars, facilitating a cultural shift which is still in motion. His parenting books, including Raising Boys and Manhood, are now in four million homes and twenty seven languages.
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