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Associate Professor Tom O’Connor
Executive Dean (UBSS)
Associate Professor
Tom O’Connor
Qualifications and Professional Memberships
- BA
- Dip Ed
- MEd.
- MEdPolicy
- Doctorate of Education
- Graduate Diploma Migration Law
Research and Teaching Specialities
- Transnational education
- Pedagogy
- Project management
Biography
Tom is a Fellow of the UBSS Centre for Scholarship and Research and a consulting principal at Shanghai Normal University Tianhua High School. He has extensive academic and professional experience. He started his career as a teacher of English before moving into tertiary education. His experience includes being appointed project manager to develop the Victorian International School in Sharjah (UAE). He was also for responsible for developing the business curriculum for the Saudi VET Sector. In his spare time he has also written and directed a number of musical productions staged nationally and internationally.