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| Academic Staff
at James Cook University Australia, Singapore Campus
JCU Singapore has a pool of dedicated and highly qualified academics (lecturers and tutors) from both Singapore and Australia. JCU Singapore adopts stringent selection for local lecturers and tutors to ensure compatibility of teaching approach and maintain consistent quality standards and learning outcomes for programs conducted. (Please see below on Lecturers and tutors selection process.)
Most of JCU Singapore contracted academic staff have minimum of Masters qualifications who have at least 3 – 5 years of teaching experiences as well as relevant industrial experience in the areas where they would be contracted to teach in. At the moment, JCU Singapore have more than 50 contracted academic staff to teach in both part-time and full-time programs.
Besides that, JCU Singapore also conducts “Lecturers /Tutors Teaching Evaluation” by obtaining feedback from students on their teaching performance at the completion of each subjects. The average ratio of Academic Staff to Student is 1:30 |
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Dr Dale Anderson |
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BEd (UQ), DipSchoolCouns (UQ), MEd (Hons) (UNE), Ph.D (RMIT), FACE, MAICD
Chief Executive Officer
JCU Singapore
Head of the Singapore Campus of
James Cook University Australia
E-Mail: dale.anderson@jcu.edu.sg |
Dr Anderson is the Chief Executive Officer of JCU Singapore and Head of the Singapore Campus of James Cook University. During his stewardship of the Singapore arm of James Cook University Australia the Singapore Campus has grown and established itself as a major player in Asian higher education.
James Cook University in Singapore now operates from a new campus and its approach to quality saw it awarded Singapore Quality Class in 2008 - the only Australian organization to achieve this award and one of the very few foreign organizations recognized in this way.
Dr Anderson has a background in educational administration, regional management and school counselling. He has held executive positions at all levels of education including schools, regional administration, and vocational education and has taught in universities.
Dr Anderson was formerly the Institute Director at the multi campus Tropical North Queensland TAFE, in Cairns, where he established the Institute as a leader in Australian Indigenous training, maritime studies and as a destination for international students.
He has also been a Senior Executive in the Queensland Public Service, where he was a Project Director in the Department of State Development Trade and Innovation and a Regional Director in the Department of Employment Training and Industrial Relations.
Dr Anderson has extensive experience in providing educational and other services to remote areas and was instrumental in the establishment of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership; one of Australia’s leading think tanks on Indigenous issues.
He has previously lectured in educational administration, school counselling and management. He has conducted research on accountability and quality assurance in schools.
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| Professor Joachim Diederich |
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Habilitation in Computer Science
(Higher Doctorate), Germany, 1995
PhD in Computational Linguistics/
Psycholinguistics, Germany, 1985
Diplom in Psychology (Master), Germany, 1983
Professor
James Cook University, Australia
Singapore Campus
E-Mail: joachim.diederich@jcu.edu.sg |
Professor Joachim Diederich is teaching Psychology and Information Technology at James Cook University, Australia, Singapore International Campus. Previously, Professor Diederich has served as Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Sohar University, Oman (Sohar University is affiliated with the University of Queensland, Australia) and Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, American University of Sharjah.
Dr Joachim Diederich's professional career includes four years as a team leader at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD) and more than two years at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California. He has also been a Full Professor at Queensland University of Technology.
Dr Diederich has published nine books (three as single author; one additional book to be published in 2009), 50 book chapters and journal articles, and more than 100 peer-reviewed conference papers. As a recognized innovator, Dr. Diederich was selected as winner of the E-Health category in the prestigious “Secrets of Australian IT Innovation Competition 2003.”
Dr Joachim Diederich is also an Honorary Professor in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering as well as the School of Medicine – Central Clinical Division at the University of Queensland.
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| Professor Timothy K. Roberts |
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PhD
Dean of Research
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: tim.roberts@jcu.edu.sg |
Professor Roberts has come to the position of Dean of Research at JCU Singapore following his recent retirement from his position as inaugural Dean of the Singapore campus of the University of Newcastle, Australia, and also from the University of Newcastle . However in line with his appointment as Conjoint Professor in Biology he continues to be active in research in the laboratory of his long-time collaborator Associate Professor Hugh Dunstan at the University of Newcastle . He has published some 100 papers.
Originally from South Australia , he has traveled extensively since completing his B Sc at the University of Adelaide and his PhD at Flinders University , coming to the University of Newcastle in 1974 and moving to Singapore in July 2006.
Tim Roberts is an acknowledged expert in the area of chronic pain and fatigue and autism. His group has made significant progress in leading to the understanding that these conditions have a common underlying biochemical pathology which relates to the metabolism of the sufferer being in a chronic catabolic state. These findings have reoriented the field to now focus on chronic infection as the primary underlying cause of chronic pain and fatigue. This catabolic state being the host response to this chronic infection.
In a study of free-ranging dogs associated with an outback community in the Northern Territory , his group has found that the first incidence of Ehrlichia infection ( Anaplasma platys) in Australia . His laboratory has recently identified a new disease-causing intracellular bacterium Rickettsia marmioni which causes spotted fever in humans and is transmitted by ticks. His laboratory has continuing projects on the biochemistry of autism in collaboration with Professor Tiny Reichelt of University of Oslo , Norway.
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| Professor Nigel V. Marsh |
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BA (Massey), MSocSc DipPsych(Clin) (Waikato), PhD (Otago)
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Department of Psychology
James Cook University Australia
Singapore Campus
E-Mail: nigel.marsh@jcu.edu.sg |
Professor Marsh is a Clinical Psychologist and prior to coming to Singapore to take his current position as Director of the postgraduate professional course in clinical psychology, he has held academic appointments involving the training of clinical psychologists in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Professor Marsh is a member of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Clinical Psychologists, is registered as a Psychologist in New South Wales, Australia, and is an Authorised Supervisor of the New South Wales Psychologists Registration Board.
After completing his postgraduate training, Dr Marsh worked for seven years as a clinical psychologist in a variety of settings. These settings included both psychiatric and general medical hospitals, and a university-based psychology clinic. He has continued to remain clinically active with the majority of his recent clinical work involving the neuropsychological assessment of individuals with traumatic brain injury, stroke, occupational exposure to neurotoxins, or suspected dementia.
Dr Marsh’s expertise within clinical psychology is in the areas of neuropsychology and psychometrics. The majority of his research publications deal with the assessment of the psychosocial consequences of traumatic injuries for both the individual and their familial caregivers. Within clinical neuropsychology the primary emphasis has been on acquired brain injury (traumatic brain injury, stroke), but he has also conducted research with people with degenerative (dementia, HIV, multiple sclerosis) and congenital (hydrocephalus, learning disabilities, foetal alcohol syndrome) neurological disorders. Similarly, he has tended to focus on adult populations but has also conducted studies with older adults and with children. Within psychometrics he has been involved in a range of projects concerned with the psychological assessment of clinical populations.
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| Dr. Denise Dillon |
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PhD, James Cook University, 2008
Grad Cert Education – Tertiary teaching, JCU, 2005
B Psych (Hons)/B SocSc – English Literature, JCU, 2003
Associate Dean
School of Psychology
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: denise.dillon@jcu.edu.sg |
Denise’s current role on the JCU Singapore campus is Associate Dean of Psychology. Before commencing her PhD Denise trained as a telephone counselor with Lifeline Australia and worked as a co-facilitator and co-supervisor for the Lifeline telephone counseling program and for the Control Aggression in the Home program for men. Denise also worked briefly as a Child Protection Officer with the Department of Families.
After taking up full-time study as a PhD candidate Denise worked variously as a contract interviewer, research assistant and contract lecturer. Her predominant employment during candidature was as a contract associate lecturer with JCU at the Cairns campus, teaching a variety of subjects including introductory psychology, statistics and research methods, health and social psychology, lifespan development, memory and cognition, and effective writing.
Research interests include sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives on environmental discourse, the connection between knowledge and performance, the enterprise of knowledge elicitation and representation, and the cognitive underpinnings of these processes. Denise’s PhD research focus was on pragmatic and semantic considerations of language in context, and on how the meanings of the word ‘values’ were represented and understood among different environmental interest groups.
Leisure pursuits include bush walking and amateur botany, spy novels and chess.
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Dr. Foo Koong Hean |
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BSc (Psychology, Canada), MA (Psychology, USA), PGDip Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (New Zealand), PhD (Psychology, New Zealand), MNZPS, MSPS, MSRP, MENPP
Lecturer and Year 1-3 Coordinator
School of Psychology
JCU Australia, Singapore Campus
Registered Psychologist, Singapore
E-Mail:koonghean.foo@jcu.edu.sg
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Dr Foo has previously taught psychology subjects at Nanyang Polytechnic and Raffles Education Corporation in Singapore, and at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked previously at the psychiatric ward at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore. He has volunteered his services with the inmates at Sunlove Home in Singapore, and with the medically ill at the Asian Support Group, Auckland, in New Zealand.
He has previously lectured in various subjects including abnormal psychology, cognitive psychology, health psychology, introductory psychology, learning and behaviour, neuropsychology, psychology at the workplace, psychology of disability, psychology of communications, social psychology, and psychometrics. He currently lectures in brain and behaviour, personality psychology, cross-cultural psychology, ethics and professional practice, social psychology.
He has conducted research on psychotherapy practices and skills, and animal behaviours. His current research interests include a psychology of Chinese Singaporeans, psychopathology, cross-cultural psychology, psychotherapy (particularly cognitive behaviour therapy), multi-cultural counselling and therapy, and positive psychology.
His areas of personal interests include brisk walking, chess, gym workouts and swimming. He is also a consultant psychologist at the Positive Psychology Centre, Singapore.
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Dr. Nicole Doherty Roe |
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BA (Hons), PhD (University QLD)
Lecturer
School of Psychology
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: nicole.dohertyroe@jcu.edu.sg |
Nicole Doherty Roe is a lecturer in the School of Psychology . Before relocating to Singapore and joining James Cook University , she lectured and tutored in psychology at the University of Queensland , Australia , for many years.
Nicole's lecturing experience encompasses social psychology, specializing in personal and family relationships, adolescent and adult development as well as communication skills. In addition to the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland , she taught communication skills within the Schools of Dentistry and Veterinary Science.
Her research interests include sibling relationships, attachment theory and personal and family relationships.
She currently coordinates and teaches into the Level 4 programs at James Cook University , Singapore .
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| Mr. Patrick K. F. Lin |
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BA (Psychology Specialized Hons., York)
M Soc. Sci. (Psychology, NUS)
Lecturer
School of Psychology
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: patrick.lin@jcu.edu.sg |
Patrick Lin graduated from York University, Toronto, Canada and received the Academic Achievement Award for his specialized honors in psychology (B.A. Spec. Hons.) in 2004. He then went on to complete his Master of Social Sciences in psychology at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Professor Ramadhar Singh.
He currently lectures research method and statistics courses at undergraduate level. He also helps honors students in social psychology related research. His research interests are pertinent to interpersonal attraction, behavior modification, internet behavior, and gender differences. At the moment, he is doing his research in the area of mediator(s) in the attitudinal similarity-attraction link.
In addition, he worked as a tutor at The Toronto District Secondary School Board (Center for Addiction and Mental Health) when in Toronto . He was trained professionally in interior design prior to psychology training.
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Ms. Ai Ni Teoh |
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B. S. (Psychology, N Taiwan U),
MSSc. (Psychology, NUS), Assoc. MAPA,
MSPS
Lecturer
School of Psychology
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: aini.teoh@jcu.edu.sg |
Teoh Ai Ni is currently a lecturer at the School of Psychology in James Cook University (Singapore campus). She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Psychology Department at National Taiwan University.
Thereafter, she received scholarship from National University of Singapore to complete her Master of Social Sciences (by research).
She specializes in health psychology and focuses on the effects of stress and social support on cardiovascular reactivity. Her current research focuses on the effects of stress and social support on the cognition-emotion linkage.
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Ms. Kanwaljit Kaur |
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BSc (Economics and Management)
University of London,
Dip Management Studies (SIM)
Lecturer
School of Business
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: kanwaljit.kaur@jcu.edu.sg |
Ms Kaur graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor of Science degree,
specializing in economics and management subjects.
She has been lecturing for the last 15 years in many educational institutions in Singapore. Prior to joining JCU Singapore, she was the Head, Business Administration Department in Informatics.
Ms Kaur has also served as an Air Force Officer in the Ministry of Defense, Singapore.
Subsequently, she accumulated experience in sales and marketing before moving on to an academic career.
Her personal interests include reading and traveling. She also enjoys music and sports, especially golf.
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Ms. M.S. Shanti |
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Master of IT Management
Associate Registrar
School of Information Technology
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: ms.shanti@jcu.edu.sg
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Ms.Shanti is the associate dean (IT), in-charge of Information Technology degree programs conducted in JCUS. She also teaches subjects in the degree program.
Ms.Shanti holds a Master of IT Management degree from University of Wollongong. She has about 10 years of teaching experience and prior to teaching, she was a programmer.
Ms.Shanti is a versatile person, who believes in maximizing the potential of the students and equips them with up-to-date knowledge and skills, so that they will be well trained, confident and ready to contribute to the society and serve the community.
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| Ms. Lorraine Teo |
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BA(Hons) TBM, Dip. TESOL, Dip Business Studies
Head of Department
Department of ELPP
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: lorraine.teo@jcu.edu.sg |
Lorraine Teo has been teaching English for 10 years from various private schools after working in several commercial industries relating to event management and marketing communications. She has taught English at various levels, from structured syllabus like GCE'O' levels, PSLE and preparatory courses to ESL programs like IELTS, FCE and GE.
Having completed her honours degree in Tourism Business Management at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, she further pursued her interest in English teaching and completed her Diploma in TESOL from London 's Teacher Training Centre, United Kingdom .
Lorraine Teo is currently the Head of Department for the in-house English Language program preparing foreign students at James Cook University , Singapore , for their degrees taught in English.
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| Mr. Brandon Tennakoon |
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Dip. TESOL, Dip Electronics and Communication, CERT Teaching IELTS and Grammar
Lecturer
Department of ELPP
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: brandon.tennakoon@jcu.edu.sg |
Brandon has 6 years professional experience as a teacher and trainer with both the private sector as well as with MOE based teachers. He has taught both students and teachers extensively and has equipped many with phonetics, IT and communication skills.
He is also a trained TESOL teacher teaching foreign students at all levels. Brandon has taught IELTS, Business English and General English, where ESL is concern. He is also a specialist in the area of Life Skills Programmes and Entrepreneurship programmes for students.
Brandon Tennakoon is currently teaching ELPP to foreign students studying at James Cook University , Singapore , preparing students for their tertiary programs.
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| Ms.
Wen H. Lau |
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BA Psychology,
Dip TESOL, Cert in Teaching IELTS
Lecturer
Department of ELPP
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: wen.lau@jcu.edu.sg |
Wen's past experiences and involvements focused at mass communication, training as well as intercultural understanding. She is the founder of American Field Service ( Malaysia ) Local Chapter, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, whose mission is to work towards a peaceful work and foster international understanding and partnerships.
Her interest and active participation in promoting youth-empowered activities, development and voluntary work was in-line with the UN Millennium goals. Following that she become a Youth Ambassador to the World Youth Congress 2005 in Scotland.
Wen's interest in teaching comes from the passion to share with the younger generation the linguistic, cultural knowledge and values that she has come to experience in her life. Currently, she is teaching ELPP to foreign students studying at James Cook University, Singapore, preparing students for their tertiary programs.
Academic Publication:
"Effectiveness of E-learning in Educational Process". The International Journal of Learning, Volume 12, Issue 1
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| Ms.
Shanti Achanta |
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BA (psych), MA (English), M (Guid&Couns)
Associate Dean
School of Education
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: shanti.achanta@jcu.edu.sg |
Shanti Achanta holds a Bachelor's Degree in English and Psychology, a Master's Degree in English. Her deep interest in Psychology and Counselling led her to pursue a Master's Degree in Guidance and Counselling. She is currently a lecturer with the School of Education in James Cook University, Singapore.
She intends to pursue a Phd in the field of Counselling Psychology in near future. Her personal interests and hobbies include learning Indian Classical music, reading, playing badminton, canoeing and bowling.
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| Mr. Abhishek Singh Bhati |
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MBA (Tourism and Hospitality Management, Tourism Institute of Australia)
MBA (Marketing, Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands)
BA (Economics)
Associate Dean
School of Business
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: abhishek@jcu.edu.sg |
Mr Abhishek Singh Bhati started his career with JCU Singapore as Associate dean (Business). He is responsible for overseeing the Business School as well as introducing strategies to drive student progression and growth for the division. Prior to joining JCU Singapore, he has worked in the education industry with leading public listed provider for more that half a decade.
His working career started in a dynamic public listed business group and was in charge of procurement, sales, business development and coordination amongst branch offices. His extensive travelling and interactions with customers and channel-partners from different markets gave him rich exposure to real life selling and marketing issues. He also carried out a consultancy project in respect of organizational structure and marketing strategy in Cyprus.
Abhishek holds a Master of Business Administration (Marketing Management) from Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands and MBA in Tourism & Hospitality Management from the Tourism Institute of Australia.
He has lectured in International Marketing, Service Operations Management, Managerial Economics, International Business, Cross Cultural Management, Small Business Management, Organisation Behaviour and Integrated Marketing Communication. His current interests include Sustainable Tourism and Customer Experience Management.
Abhishek enjoys travelling, BBQ, chess and jungle walks.
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| Dr. K. Thirumaran |
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Ph.D. Southeast Asian Studies - Tourism (National University of Singapore)
Lecturer
School of Business
JCU Singapore
E-Mail: thiru@jcu.edu.sg
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Dr. Thirumaran has had career paths in the airlines, travel, banking and finance industries.
His main activity over the past 5 years has been tourism research in Singapore, Bali, Malaysia and Bhutan and studies on Chinese and Indian tourists. He has contributed to edited books, journal, encyclopedia and newspapers. Aside from research, Dr. Thirumaran is also involved in developing subject guides and is a guest lecturer in special interest tourism modules in several institutions of higher learning in Singapore.
His teaching style provide lots of opportunities beyond classroom learning; for students to go on excursions, do fieldwork and forge connections with the industry. Besides work, he also swims, plays badminton, and participates in dragon boat sports regularly.
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| Ms. Smita Singh |
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PhD, National University of Singapore, 2010 (expected).
MPhil (Humanities & Social Sciences), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 2004.
M.A. (Psychology), 2002 & B.A. (Honours: Psychology), 2000 - Banaras Hindu University, India
Lecturer
School of Psychology
JCU Singapore
E-mail: smita@jcu.edu.sg |
Smita joined JCU Singapore campus as a lecturer, in the School of Psychology. Before joining JCU, she was pursuing her PhD at the Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore (NUS). In her Doctoral research, she investigated the effects of psychological distance in construal and judgement of organizational leaders.
Alongside her research experience, during both her Master’s and Doctoral candidature, Smita gained considerable experience in Lecturing and Tutoring a number of psychology modules at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.
Her research interest also lies in assimilating and testing the applicability of socio-cognitive theories in different social settings. In addition to extending her doctoral research, she plans to explore group related domains of decision making, interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships.
Apart from her academic work experiences, she has spent time working with children with special needs, at Varanasi, India and before joining the PhD program at NUS, she worked with an organizational development consultancy firm based in Hyderabad, India.
She aims to bring this medley of experiences to her class and provide students with diverse, active, and engaging classroom learning experience.
Besides being involved in teaching and research she enjoys watching movies, and truly follows the rules of her field (social psychology), that is, she loves socializing.
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| Mr. Philip Seah |
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Fellow of the Institute of Administrative Management (UK)
MBA (UK)
Lecturer
School of Business
James Cook University, Singapore
E-Mail: philip@jcu.edu.sg |
Philip Seah had been working for major Statutory Boards like PSA, HDB and also the Ministry of Defence attaining the rank of Captain. He had also worked for major private corporations in Real Estates Management, Marketing and Administration.
He had been teaching for the last 20 years on a part time basis and recently lecturing full time in Private Educational Providers for the last 15 years before joining JCUS.
Philip’s lecturing experience includes teaching subjects on Management, Organisation and Change, Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Strategic Management , Marketing, Consumer Behaviour and Administrative Management.
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| Ms. Gandhi Sundrum |
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Bachelor of Arts (National University of Singapore)
Diploma –in – Education(Institute of Education, Singapore)
Academic Manager
Foundation Program
James Cook University, Singapore Campus
E-Mail: gandhi@jcu.edu.sg
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Ms Gandhi has had a wealth of experience in teaching and training. After graduating from the National University of Singapore, she pursued her passion for teaching and obtained a Diploma in Education.
Besides, teaching in both the government and private institutions in Singapore, she extended her teaching career by lecturing in some of the International Schools in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
Prior to her appointment as Business lecturer at James Cook University, she was Head of the Academic and English Departments at Informatics, overseeing the curriculum and liaising with relevant lecturers.
Currently, she is the Academic Manager of the Foundation program.
Some of her leisure pursuits include reading, jogging and going to the gym.
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