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Contact your Rep

Issues your Departmental Rep can help you with

Teaching and learning issues that Reps can assist with include

  • Raise issues relating to the experiences of students in lectures and tutorials(e.g. class sizes, location, timetable)
  • Liaise with Academic staff about assessment structures
  • Provide feedback to Departments about unit of study choice and availability
  • Provide feedback to students and staff about reader and text availability
  • Liaise with Professional staff about School and Departmental administrative matters
  • Any other issue that affects a department’s entire cohort, or a significant number of students

Departmental Rep contact details

Reps check the Issues for your Student Representative discussion board on your department or program’s Student Liaison Program Blackboard site. In addition, each Rep has access to a dedicated email account if you would prefer to email your comments, concerns or queries. Check the list below for the addresses.

Department or Program Rep(s) Email
American Studies Nicola Curnow

Ben Fitzpatrick
Anthropology Amanda Choularton

Zsuzsanna Ihar
Arabic & Islamic Studies Sonia Diab

Fannana Mazumder
Archaeology Rebekah Hawkins

Michael Leadbetter
Art History and Film Studies Helen Xue

Esther Rolfe
Asian Studies Sheena Shin
Celtic Studies Claude Armiger
Chinese Studies Sola Nam

Sophie Lancaster
Classics and Ancient History Elliot Nolan
Digital Cultures Roger Kong

Caitlin Wallace
Economics Ji Seong Bae

Peter Chen
English Gabriella Edelstein

Bronte Lambourne
European Studies Grace Mowat
French Studies Georgia Carr
Gender and Cultural Studies vacant
Germanic Studies Chris Harris
Govt & Intl Relations Vhia Rose

Grace O'Brien
Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies Michael Goldman
History Nicola Curnow

Michael Goldman
ICLS Lily Wang

Karina O'Callaghan
Indian Sub-Continental Studies *    
Indonesian Studies Nicholas Molodysky

Sarah Mourney
International and Global Studies Matt O'Neil

Varsha Srinivasan
Italian Studies Madison Hughes
Japanese Studies Isabel Guo

Dennis Wong
Korean Studies Isabel Guo

Sheena Shin and David Vuong
Linguistics James Sugrono
Media and Communications Thomas O'Brien
Medieval Studies *    
Modern Greek Studies vacant
Performance Studies Samuel Young

Emma Jones
Philosophy vacant

Steven Kwon
Political Economy Mariana Podesta-Diverio

Anna Fraser
Sociology & Social Policy (Including Socio-Legal Studies) Adam Johnson
Spanish & Latin American Studies *    
Studies in Religion Miranda Fagan

Breann Szczepanik

Note: an asterisk (*) indicates that the department or program is not participating in the Student Liaison Program at this time.

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Support for other issues

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences also provides comprehensive Student Administration Manuals that contain information about your enrolment, extensions and special consideration, exchange, and other student administration forms. In addition, the Faculty provides support for planning your studies and information on free services you can access if things go wrong.

Undergraduate Students: Students’ Representative Council (SRC)

The Students’ Representative Council offers free, confidential advocacy and advice to undergraduate students on a range of issues, including

  • Academic appeals (over marks, show good cause and exclusions) and special consideration
  • Centrelink and financial issues
  • Tenancy issues
  • Discrimination and harassment issues

For more information visit the SRC’s help page to read one of their pamphlets, or email .

Postgraduate Students: Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA)

The Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association offers free, confidential advocacy and advice to postgraduate students on a range of issues, including

  • Academic appeals (coursework and research appeals, show cause complaints) and special considerations
  • Supervision and research issues, academic honesty, plagiarism
  • Centrelink and financial issues
  • Tenancy issues
  • Discrimination and harassment issues

SUPRA also provides legal assistance, tax help, and a range of publications to support PG students in their studies at the University of Sydney. For more information visit SUPRA’s help page, or email .

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Contact your Faculty Reps

You can contact the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Student Faculty Representatives by sending an . Alternatively, you can visit their blog for updates.

Questions about the program

If you have a question about the program, please don’t hesitate to email for more information.

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