Meet your academics
Ana Dow Mathematics lecturer
Brendan Holland Chemistry lecturer
Ana has taught Mathematics and Physics to two cohorts of TCFS Extended students and will be teaching Mathematics across all intakes in the coming years. Ana is passionate about communicating mathematical ideas and nurturing the development of creative problem solving. She also enjoys helping students from diverse backgrounds adapt to the Australian academic culture and fostering self-directed study skills.
Brendan has been teaching Chemistry in the TCFS program since 2016. His motivation as a teacher is to build a strong rapport with his students, so they can enjoy learning chemistry and feel more confident in achieving their study goals and ambitions. Brendan strives to make the study of chemistry engaging by incorporating a blended learning approach of new technology, interactive demonstrations and traditional teaching methods to his classes.
Ana graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science with honours in physics, and a graduate diploma and PhD in pure mathematics. Her doctoral thesis, in an area of mathematics known as topology, presented a new class of threedimensional mathematical objects living in four-dimensional space that exhibit hyperbolic combinatorial properties. Prior to teaching at Trinity College, Ana was a residential tutor and Academic Development Coordinator for Science at another college affiliated with the University of Melbourne for five years. She also tutored mathematics and held laboratory classes for a number of years at the University of Melbourne.
Before arriving at Trinity, Brendan’s career included five years teaching chemistry to undergraduate and graduate students at Deakin University. He also has five years’ research experience from completing a PhD and research fellowship in analytical chemistry, in collaboration with the local pharmaceutical and olive oil industries. This has enabled him to maintain professional contacts at universities across Australia, including the University of Melbourne. His research and teaching experience allows him to enrich chemistry at Trinity with real-life examples, applications and advice, while ensuring content remains relevant to the real world and to future university studies for his students.
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Joanne Boyle Media and Communications lecturer and Subject Leader Joanne has been teaching Media and Communications at Trinity College since 2018 and has been Subject Leader since 2019. With a double degree in literature and film studies from Monash University, Joanne began her professional career teaching migrant English. A move to teaching international students in English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) programs led her to work and live in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Korea and China. She has now happily found herself teaching her passion and love: media and communications. Joanne loves working with students from all over the world and is passionate about encouraging individuals to be lifelong learners. Students are the centre of the learning experience in her courses, and Joanne makes sure that all lessons are dynamic, current and thought-provoking.
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