Academic Program Directors

Find your Academic Program Director or Discipline Leader 

As an undergraduate, your first step in getting great advice is to contact askuow. As a postgraduate, you can find your relevant information over on the Graduate School of Research website - with exception to Psychology, which has an APD listed on this page.

If your enquiry is related to a specific subject, please contact the subject coordinator. Subject coordinators are listed on the subject Moodle site or via your timetable in SOLS.

More specialist degree advice can be given by our Academic Program Directors (APDs) and Discipline Leaders (DLs) listed below.

Academic Program Directors and Discipline leaders are academic staff members who can provide strategic leadership for one or more UOW undergraduate coursework programs (with exception to Postgrad Psychology which does have an APD), and who take ultimate responsibility for key areas of the course design and course performance.

For Postgraduate assistance, you can find your Head of Postgraduate Studies on The Graduate Research School website.

Key Academic contacts by school

This listing of contacts is for undergraduate degrees. Please visit The Graduate Research School for faculty contacts relating to postgraduate courses

Discipline Leaders, unless otherwise noted

  • Bachelor of Creative Arts | Bachelor of Performance and Theatre
    Luke Johnson (Academic Program Director)
  • Bachelor of Communication and Media | Bachelor of Journalism
    Chris Comerford (Academic Program Director)
  • Creative Writing and English Literatures
    Christine Howe
  • Journalism and Visual Communication Design 
    Shawn Burns

Bachelor of Primary

Bachelor of:

  • Secondary Education,
  • Health and Physical Education,
  • Science and Mathematics Education,
  • Sport

    Helen Georgiou

Bachelor of Education - The Early Years
Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett

MTeach-Primary and Secondary Education

Postgraduate Studies 

Master of Education
Sharon Tindall-Ford

Specialisation Contacts

Master of Autism and Neurodivergent Studies
Amanda Webster

Undergraduate Geography & Sustainability
Chris Brennan-Horley

Undergraduate Public Health
Summer Finlay

Undergraduate Social Science
Delia Rambaldini-Gooding

Undergraduate Work Health and Safety/Occupational Health and Safety 
Emmanuel Boateng

Bachelor of Arts
David Neil

Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics
Patrick McGivern

Politics and International Studies
Phil Orchard

History
Claire Lowrie

Indigenous Studies
Evan Poata-Smith

Philosophy 
Patrick McGivern

Sociology
Jordan McKenzie

Academic Program Director
Michael Kirchhoff

Undergraduate
Laura Robinson

International
Simone Favelle

 

Postgraduate
Vida Bliokas