News: celebrating our colleagues
Celebrating our colleagues: Dana Rawls
I met my future husband at the US Embassy in Baghdad, literally the last place on the planet that I would’ve anticipated meeting the love of my life, and yet here we are! It just goes to show that love can be found in even the strangest places.
Celebrating our colleagues: Dharmesh D Bhuva
My family is Indian, but soon after I was born, we moved to Kenya because there were better professional opportunities for my dad. I have always been passionate about learning new things, but coming from Kenya, I didn’t really have access to knowledge as you would here.
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Celebrating our colleagues: Lloyd Van't Hoff
My first experience hearing a live musical instrument was of my father playing classical guitar when I was a kid. I was envious that he could make it sound so beautiful and yet when I would play it, it wouldn’t.
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Celebrating our colleagues: Emma Gregan
Music education is not necessarily about creating thousands of professional musicians. It’s about creating opportunities for children and adults to access the unique and very profound cognitive, health and social benefits that come along with it.
Celebrating our colleagues: Emily Kelly
I think one of the greatest joys in life is communicating with people in different ways. For me, that’s on a stage, musically, with people in a group – it’s one of the most rewarding things you can do.
Celebrating our colleagues: Mario Ricci
I’ve always been fascinated with science and especially how the human body works. My mum trained to be a nurse, so in primary school when everyone was reading Winnie the Pooh books, I was instead flipping through her Grey’s Anatomy textbook!
Celebrating our colleagues: Chelsea Deckert
In 2018 I moved from upstate New York to Australia for a six-month internship. That then led to a Master of Education degree here at the University of Adelaide, and six months has ballooned to six years! My Master’s degree in education specialised in educational wellbeing. What I found is that wellbeing is multi-faceted, with no single definition applying to each individual. Rather, it includes a diverse range of mental, emotional, and physical components.
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Celebrating our colleagues: Libby Hogarth
My role is to keep the University accountable to its sustainability targets and our sustainability strategy, Here for Good.
Celebrating our colleagues: Tyson Felix-Smith
Anyone who knows me or has met me briefly would know that I am fanatical about gardening. I absolutely love it and even have a butterfly conservation garden at my house that is recognised by the South Australian Butterfly Association group.
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Celebrating our colleagues: Sarah Carvalho
I’m really proud to be an alumni, and now to be a staff member. Our workplace culture keeps students at the centre of everything we do, and we aim to go that extra mile so they can get the support they need, in time.
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