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Paul Haynes. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Peter Headley, MA, BA has had a career mainly in the export sector globally covering over 40 years in fields such as food processing, renewable energy, environment management and Trade Commissioner Service. Since his retirement he has been giving lectures at WEA since 2012 and also to outside groups such as U3A, Probus and as a lecturer with Princess Cruises since 2008.  He has had a life long interest in history and cultures, and his talks reflect this interest and good fortune in visiting and researching many of his talks on site. He has an engaging presentational style and encourages audience participation/contribution. Notably his presentations contain a  higher pictorial/media content than what might be normally encountered. Peter aims to not only educate his audience and to bring alive the times and subject of his talk, but to inspire an ongoing interest by his audience.

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Marie Heinrich, PhD, MM, enjoys a lively career as a music researcher, educator, and performer. She earned her doctorate in music from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, where she specialised in intercultural music mediation and developed a system to help musicians learn music authentically from other cultures. Recent engagements include lectures and performances in Brisbane, Sydney, and London's Royal Academy of Music.

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Nadine Helmi. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Karen Hendrix is a osteoarchaeologist and has studied human skeletons from archaeological sites for the last 25 years in Australia and the Middle East. She has travelled and excavated in numerous Middle Eastern locations such as Egypt, Syria and Jordan.

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Jo Henwood, BA (Libr Sc), Tourism III Cert, Grad Dip Mus St, Grad Cert (Gifted Ed), M Cult Her, has done most of her teaching outside schools - museum education, gifted education, tour guiding, workshops in creative writing and storytelling, conference presentations, and over fifteen years with WEA.  The core of all her work is storytelling and she is an Accredited Storyteller with Australian Storytellers, an Accredited Professional Guide with the Institute of Australian Tour Guides, and a Wikipedia Editor. Jo is the Australian Fairy Tale Society researcher and co founder, and winner of the 2022 Australian Fairy Tale Society Award.  She was chosen to deliver the WEA 2021 George Shipp Lecture, and to mentor international storytellers in heritage sites for FEAST, the Federation of Asian Storytellers.  Her workshops are story-rich and chatty, her PowerPoints are filled with images not words, and her tours are full of historical anecdotes. Jo relishes discovering fascinating new stories in history and literature and sharing these discoveries with her students.

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Kay Heycox. Tutor of WEA Sydney

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Bill Hick was a TAFE teacher for 26 years (the majority at Wollongong), followed by a number of years as a workplace assessor. He also spent 11 years on a voluntary basis conducting presentations on Noise Induced Hearing Loss and Tinnitus. Bill has a Bachelor of Education and various TAFE qualifications, however, his particular interest lies in history of World War II.

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David Hirsch graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada with an honours arts degree (BA Phil), and honours degrees in common law (LLB) and civil law (BCL). He came to Australia in 1989 with a scholarship from Sydney University Law School and worked as a solicitor from 1992 before becoming a barrister in 2005. He specialised in medical law and has lectured to medical and legal audiences throughout Australia. David has a wide general knowledge of law and enjoys teaching. He taught a postgraduate course in law and coached a high school mock trial team for 10 years. David is recently retired and keen to share his knowledge and insights of 40+ years in law.

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History Council of NSW. Tutor of WEA Sydney