SEDA/SEDA301/Developmentteam

Course Coordinator: Dr Sophie Clark
Dr Sophie Clark is a lecturer with the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics (TSBE). Sophie’s research interests include social enterprises and cross-sector partnerships. Sophie’s recently completed PhD thesis explored the partnership decision-making of Australian social enterprises in their partnerships with for-profit business organisations. Sophie has a wide range of teaching experience within TSBE, and has taught small business management, organisational change and development, retailing and sales, and international human resource management. Sophie has also worked on different tourism and agricultural research projects as a research assistant.

Lecturer: Dr Ben Wills
Dr Benjamin Wills is a Research Fellow in Innovative Business Models at the Australian Innovation Research Centre (AIRC) within the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics (TSBE). His research explores how the use of novel information collection and sharing technologies can lead to more sustainable and just business models within high value agri-food chains. He also has a research interest in how social enterprise business models drive sustainable food system innovations. Dr Wills has a practical background in social entrepreneurship as a co-founder of a number of food-related social enterprises both in Australia and the United Kingdom, including co-founding Source Community Wholefoods, a student and community-run social enterprise located on the Sandy Bay campus of the University of Tasmania.

Lecturer: Dr Winyu Chinthammit
Dr Winyu Chinthammit is a deputy director of Human Interface Technology Lab Australia (HIT Lab AU), School of Engineering and ICT in the Faculty of Engineering, Science & Technology. His teaching includes KIT 208 Virtual and Mixed Reality technologies and KIT412 Computer Vision in interactive systems. His research interest is in advanced user interface such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Scientific 3D data visualisation and Interactive Table interface. He also applies his interface research in different disciplines such as education technology and tele rehabilitation.

Lecturer: Professor Elaine Mosakowski
Elaine Mosakowski is a Professor of Community Entrepreneurship and is based at the Institute for Regional Development (IRD) in Burnie, Tasmania

Lecturer: Rachel Taylor
Rachel is a PhD Candidate at the Australian Innovation Research Centre (AIRC) within the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics (TSBE). Rachel's research interests include social innovation and social entrepreneurship and her PhD study examines the antecedents and consequences of social innovation within non-profit organisations and social enterprises in the Australian disability sector. Rachel's previous roles have spanned across the education, non-profit and social enterprise sectors. As a project manager in the non-profit sector in Tasmania for four years, Rachel was instrumental in designing, evaluating and collaborating on state-wide initiatives which aimed to enhance social outcomes for people with disabilities.

Lecturer: Mary Duniam
Mary Duniam is a PhD Candidate with the Institute for Regional Development (IRD), Cradle Coast Campus. Mary’s research focus is on local government and social enterprises in Tasmania, exploring relationships that build community value, in particular relationships between local Councils and local social enterprises. Mary has been a teacher within the VET sector and taught Management and Business Administration as well as teaching at UTAS in the University Preparation Program. Mary has undertaken a scoping study into social enterprises and local government for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Local Government, and co-authored  Social enterprises in rural community governance: evidence from Tasmania  in Critical Reflections on Interactive Governance: Self-organisation and Participation in Public Governance(2016) with Professor Robyn Eversole. Mary is also a Councillor and Deputy Mayor of Waratah-Wynyard Council, and an executive member of several local social enterprises.