Dr Iryna Khodos
Dr Iryna Khodos is a Ukrainian-Australian academic, with specialisation in language education, bilingualism, and language practices in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) communities. Currently, she holds a research position at Curtin University, and a teaching position at the University of New England. She is also an invited member of the Australian Association for Research in Education, the Language Lab, and Cognition and Emotion Group. As a researcher, she engages in providing targeted language support for CaLD communities and improving language use experiences of a wide range of bilinguals. As an educator, she has ample experience fostering culturally inclusive education across Australia.
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Professor Jaya Dantas
Professor Jaya Dantas, PhD accepted the position of President in April 2019. She is currently Dean International and Professor of International Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University in Western Australia. Jaya has worked for 32 years in India, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Australia and has undertaken teaching and research in Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Pakistan and South Africa. Her research focusses on resettlement among migrants and refugees especially women and youth. She is a passionate advocate for education of women and youth. As a migrant women from India whose life has been immensely impacted by education, she contributes lived experiences on gender, education and health.
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Alison Hayden
Alison Hayden worked with the Commonwealth Bank for 23 years. While working, she studied a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and completed a Graduate Diploma in Education. She then worked in schools in country WA and in Perth teaching Accounting and Finance and taught in China for a year teaching English. Alison worked for 8 years as a finance administrator for a charitable organisation in Broome, WA. Whilst working in Broome in 2001, Barbara Hale visited from Perth and gave a talk about Graduate Women WA. On her return to Perth, Alison became a committee member and later Treasurer of GWWA. She is committed to being part of an organisation dedicated to assisting women achieve their potential through education.
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Professor Shirley Randell
Professor Shirley Randell AO, PhD, has been a past World Vice President of IFUW and member then Convener of the IFUW Projects Committee. She is currently a member of the Graduate Women International Special Committee on Project Development. Shirley was Founder and President of the Ballarat Branch of AFGW Vic, an Executive member of AFGW ACT, and Founder and CIR of both the Vanuatu Association of University Women and the Rwanda Association of University Woman. Since returning to Australia she has been CIR of AFGW NSW and is an Executive member of AFGW City Branch. Shirley has worked at all levels of education in Australia, Asia, Pacific and Africa and is currently Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Canberra and Newcastle.
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