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Associate Professor Mark Davis is a well-know author and commentator, and is the coordinator of the Publishing and Communications graduate coursework MA program at the University of Melbourne. He has written for all Australia’s major broadsheet newspapers and is a regular guest commentator on radio and television.
Mr Andrew Alexandra is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Melbourne. Following post-graduate study at Melbourne and Oxford Universities Andrew worked at Swinburne, Deakin, Queensland and Charles Sturt University, before returning to the University of Melbourne as a staff member in 2003. Along the way he has developed and taught subjects on ethical theory, applied and professional ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of law, as well as specialised subjects for police, nursing and social welfare students.
Associate Professor Mary Patterson is a graduate of the University of Sydney where she taught until 1980. Mary conducted fieldwork in Vanuatu on kinship, cosmology and gender relations, sorcery and political organisation and Indigenous attitudes to health and illness. Her major interests are theoretical approaches to kinship, sex and gender, the analysis of problems related to sex, gender and reproduction, and ideas about the 'supernatural' in a cross-cultural and historical context. Mary is currently conducting research into contemporary kinship, gender and political relations and the impact of sorcery ideas on social life in rural and urban areas of Vanuatu.
Reza Hasmath (PhD, Cambridge) was formally trained in philosophy, public policy, international studies and law, diplomacy, and sociology, as well as in various East Asian and Western European languages. He has worked for various think-tanks, development agencies and NGOs in Canada, USA, UK, Australia and China; was previously based at the University of Toronto; and, is currently a faculty member of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His current research can be summarized in threefold: (1) examining the education (esp. tertiary level) and labour market (from the job search, hiring and promotion process) experiences of ethnic minorities in the Canadian, American, Australian and Chinese contexts; (2) assessing the theories and practices of social inclusion, international development, state corporatism, and differential treatment in international society; and, (3) analyzing evolving state-NGO and state-private enterprise relationships in East Asia, and its policy-specific implications.
Associate Professor John Armstrong is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department of Melbourne University, and the Chief Investigator of the Aesthetic Education project. He is the author of several internationally-acclaimed books on art and aesthetics, including Move Closer, Looking at Pictures, and The Secret Power of Beauty. His Love, Life, Goethe was published in 2007. Alongside his books, John has delivered many academic and public lectures to universities and art museums.
Mr Noel Boys is from the Melbourne Law School. He teaches the Budgets and Financial Management subject.
Mr Richard Comerford is from the Melbourne Law School. He teaches the Budgets and Financial Management subject.