Academic Collegium & Staff
Dr Jacques Boulet, PhD, is interested in community development, globalisation, international solidarity, cross cultural studies and social research. Jacques is also Head of Graduate School and serves on the OASES council.
Dr Julia Catton, PhD. M.Ed., has lectured and taught for over thirty years. She expertise is in various kinds of physical encounter, applied in fields of physical education, dance and ritual, and currently completing a book titled Dancing Together: the interplay of bodily encounter.
Dr Peter Cock, PhD, is a Sociologist and until recently was senior lecturer in Geography and Environmental Science. His research concerns are the development of ecologically and socially sustainable social and psychological structures. Peter is also one of the founders of Moora Moora Cooperative in Healesville.
Jenni Goricanec is an engineer currently doing PhD research into sustainability and the philosophy of engineering. Jenni is on the Academic Board.
Dr Tricia Hiley, MBus (OrgChange&Devt), PhD, is a lifelong learner and director of Potential Space, a micro-business which fosters learning practices for living and working in our complex and dynamic world. Tricia serves as Chair of the Academic Board.
Wendy Hopkins, BAgSc (Hons), MA Social Ecology, AdvDip Group Facilitation (underway), is passionate about enabling people to benefit our planet and themselves…bringing together sustainability education, ecoliteracy and personal development. She does this through group facilitation and individual coaching in her business Naturally Emerging, with OzGREEN and Conservation Volunteers Australia, and as a facilitator with OASES.
Chris Lloyd, BSc (Hons), BEd (Counselling), MA. For Chris, learning with others happens at the edges, through paradox, uncertainty, not knowing and through listening creatively. Chris serves on Academic Board and the OASES council.
Dr Louise Mahler, PhD, works with individuals and small groups to facilitate personal and corporate change, drawing on her years of experience with music as an Opera singer.
Rev Dr Robert Edward Hoskin, D.Min, B.D(Hons), B.A, BVAD is a retired minister of the Uniting Church. He is currently developing as an artists and continuing to work with an Aboriginal community in the Kimberley
Jose Ramos is currently doing PhD research into counter-globalisation. He researches and writes in the areas of action research, foresight, ecological sustainability, media and globalisation.
Peter Ross, BSc.M.Ed., Grad. Dip. Counselling Psych, Dip Adult Psychotherapy, is a psychologist and psychotherapist interested in the interface between psychology and spirituality.
Rev. Paul Sanders, BA.Theol (studies)., Dip.Min., is Director of the Augustine Centre and a contemplative teacher. He serves on the OASES Council.
Eleni Rivers, MFA an artist, teacher and cultural creative. She has taught a variety of art classes for over 25 years in colleges, corporations and monasteries. Her paintings explore dreams, myth, nature, and cycles of life. Eleni serves on the OASES council.
Catherine van Wilgenburg, M.Vis.Arts, Dip. Fine Art, Dip.Ed, is Director of Living Colour Studio, an architecture and visual art practice & a lecturer in Community Cultural Development at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Dr Kristin Diemer, PhD, Dipl Visual Arts - Photography explores in the formation of self within the social context using traditional sociological methods as well as the art of photography as a 'way of seeing'.
Ken Fernandes MSc (Economics), Dip., Human Rights, is a social activist and is interested in processes that enhance and strengthens communities. He is an ongoing student at the University of LIFE. He is working towards integrating the social, aesthetics, ecology and the spiritual in his own life.
Jacques Boulet
Chris Lloyd
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Paul Sanders
Tricia Hiley
Alan Browne (L) and Ken Fernandes (R)
Eleni Rivers
Wendy Hopkins
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Robert Hoskin