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Prof. Michelle Barker is Professor of International Business and Asian Studies, Prof. Michelle Barker is Professor of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith Business School (GBS), Adjunct Professor of the Griffith Institute for Higher Education, and a Griffith Academy of Learning and Teaching Scholar. She had 20 years professional practice as a social worker in international development aid and refugee and migrant resettlement prior to her academic appointments. She is Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research, Victoria University of Wellington, and Leeds Metropolitan University.Michelle has achieved national recognition for her teaching, winning the AAUT 2005 Individual Teacher Award in the category of Law, Economics and Business studies. She led the team that won the 2003 AAUT Award for integration of the EXCELL Intercultural Skills Program at Griffith University. She co-leads the current Office of Learning and Teaching project Internationalisation at Home in the Health and Business faculties at Griffith and the University of Canberra, and she led a university-wide project on Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC). Michelle has published extensively in intercultural skills development, IoC, teaching international students, as well as in the area of bullying in the workplace.
Prof. Anita Mak is a Professor in the Centre for Applied Psychology, University of Canberra. Prof. Mak has extensive experience practising, teaching, and conducting research in psychology and intercultural training. She is extensively published in her research areas of cultural diversity in education, work, and the community. She is a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research, and an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research at the Victoria University of Wellington. She was awarded a national Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2007, for her leadership in enhancing students’ development of cross-cultural awareness and social skills. She and Prof. Michelle Barker are the co- leaders of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Priority Project on “Internationalisation at Home: Enhancing Intercultural Capabilities of Business and Health Teachers, Students and Curricula” (2011 – 2012), which involves the design, delivery, and evaluation of professional development courses aimed at improving cross-cultural communication in business and health settings.
Professor Ishiyama is internationally known for his teaching, research, and training clinicians in a Japanese psychotherapy system (Morita therapy), and serves as the Secretary General for the International Committee for Morita Therapy (ICMT) and sits on the Executive Board of Directors for the Japanese Society for Morita Therapy. He is the recipient of the Shoma Morita Award by the Society in 2007. He has been engaged in research and clinical training in such areas as: multicultural counselling and supervision, cultural diversity in help-seeking attitudes and healing paradigms, identity and spirituality in personal and cross-cultural transitions, social anxiety treatment, anti-discrimination and prejudice reduction program development, comparing and integrating Eastern and Western therapeutic approaches, and development of socio-cultural competencies among “cultural newcomers.”
Prof. Marv Westwood is a Professor in the Counselling Psychology Program at the University of British Columbia and Associate Member of the University of the British Columbia Faculty of Medicine. His teaching and research areas focus on group counselling and psychotherapy, trauma repair, and therapeutic applications of the guided autobiographical life review method to the counselling process. He has established several personal development programs for professionals across a wide range of groups (counselors/psychologists, nurses, physicians, soldiers, clergy, etc.) using Guided Autobiography and group-based therapeutic enactment methods. His research and teaching focus areas have been included in many invited presentations at numerous national and international conferences.
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