Your Teaching Team
Dr Joakim Eidenfalk
Subject Coordinator
Mr Josh Pallas
Tutor
Josh Pallas is a Politics, Philosophy and Law student at the University of Wollongong. In 2014 he completed a Law Honours thesis on the prosecution of sexual violence within the International Criminal Court. He is now completing a thesis on the failed attempts by the Legal Committee of the UN General Assembly to define terrorism. Josh has interned and volunteered with organisations like the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Red Cross and theGlobal Poverty Project. He has been participating in Model United Nations Conferences since 2008 and has won a number of awards. Josh has represented countries from India to Denmark on topics ranging from whaling to climate refugees, has Directed the UNHCR and International Press Gallery and appeared at conferences as an Expert delegate.
Ms Sarah Lambert
Subject Creator
Sarah Lambert is the Manager of Open Education and is the University Of Wollongong's representative to the Open Education Resource University (OERu) with whom we are partnering to offer this open MUN course. She has been working in roles related to the management of innovation and elearning services for around 15 years. Sarah has a B.A. in Communications and a Master of Business Administration. Sarah also has many years of university teaching and curriculum design experience in the Design and Marketing fields at both UTS and UOW. During her time teaching at University she has worked with innovative teaching technologies and has a particular area of expertise in Web 2.0 and social media tools for teaching, syncronous and asyncromous communication tools for teaching, and ePortfolios. Ms Lambert has also published and presented at conferences in these areas over many years.
Dr Susan Engel
Subject Creator
Susan is the Discipline Leader of Politics and International studies and she lectures in the areas development, international studies, global politics and international political economy. Her research interests are broadly in the area of international political economy, specifically development theory and practices, aid and food. She has a strong interest in Southeast Asia, which is the area of her book with Routledge: The World Bank and the Post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia: Inheritance of Loss (2010).
Susan worked in the government, community, and aid sectors before becoming an academic and she continues to play an active role in issues of aid and development through advocacy work. Since 2002, she has been a board member of Indigo Foundation; a small, not-for-profit organisation funding community development projects in developing countries.
For more information see Susan's UOW bio page: http://lha.uow.edu.au/hsi/contacts/UOW057047.html