Brisbane tutor in Anthropology, Essay Writing, Geography, Health Studies, Hindi, History, Nutrition, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Reading, Society and Culture, Sociology, Study Skills, Teacher Training

I travel to these locations
Brisbane northside, Moreton region

Currently available all days and times Monday-Friday, by negotiation.

The tutoring I offer is at all levels from senior secondary school through university, or your professional workplace.

My formal qualifications include science, arts, education and philosophy.

Over the years I've also completed and applied training in areas such as:
- Group development and facilitation
- Community development
- Non-violent communication
- Non-violent crisis intervention
- Global sustainability
- Program management
- Essential management skills for the community sector
- Assessment and workplace training.

My passion is to help your learning to be practical and fun!

Education and training often need to be revitalised, but with what goal?

I focus on making personal and social change that can be sustained.

I've worked with individuals, government agencies and a wide variety of NGOs in Australia, India and Malaysia.
My special love is mentoring or tutoring, working alongside you in your work and study tasks:
- challenging and supporting you to reflect on your assumptions
- helping critique how you approach your work, learning and research.

My approach is practical and highly flexible. I tend to:
- customise tutoring sessions around your life situations and experiences, your academic or workplace context
- provide readings or questions prior to each session
- where necessary, adapt and structure each session around any changing needs.

Much of my community work in Australia and overseas aims to benefit both Indigenous peoples and their modern contexts. While at University Malaysia’s Centre for Poverty and Development Studies (2009-2011) I developed working relationships with:
- the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, a regional organisation based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and
- Tebtebba, an Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education based in Baguio City, the Philippines.

My main areas of expertise cover many aspects of research, including literature, but especially what is known as participatory action research and evaluation. I'm also skilled and experienced in proof-reading and copy editing at international levels.

My PhD dissertation (see https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16520/1/Neil_Edward_Hockey_Thesis.pdf) focused on frameworks for decolonising research methodologies. It supports participatory action research and evaluation with Indigenous peoples and others. Together we developed better understandings and explanations, focusing on connections and relationships.

My framework critiques Western philosophical developments, linking some Indigenous epistemologies (Australian, Maori and Native American) with dialectical critical realist research. You'll also find political philosophies and linguistics interwoven with quantum physics!

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Experience

1. 7 years' teaching Maths, Physics and Science in Australia and India (international boarding school) over a period of 20 years
2. 6 years' community development in India, as co-founder, therapeutic community worker and community-based liaison with government and non-government agencies
3. more than 4 decades' working with diverse government departments and NGOs, mainly in Southeast Qld. My roles included:
 secondary and tertiary teacher, tutor and mentor
 State-wide Aboriginal Studies curriculum evaluator
 community research worker and program facilitator with Aboriginal and other culturally diverse groups, on issues of substance abuse, community justice and child protection
 5 years' serving on the Board of Directors for a number of non-government organisations

Qualifications

PhD, MEdStudies, RSA Cert TEFLA, BA, BSc, DipEd

• PhD in transformative philosophy, investigating patterns of conditions enabling choosing and developing values, actions and structures for empowerment, justice and decolonisation through learning within colonised communities
• MEdStudies coursework masters with an emphasis on the role of education and training within and by Indigenous communities
• BA in Comparative Religion/Culture, Political/Development and Biblical Studies
• DipEd, majoring in Maths and Physics
• BSc, majoring in Maths, Psychology and Physics

Rates

Negotiable depending on student capacity, regularity of lessons and any travel involved.
Starting rate (upper secondary level) as follows:
30min: One session - $47.00
60min: One session - $80.00
90min: One session - $110.00
Book 4 consecutive sessions in advance, save 8%.
Book 6 consecutive sessions in advance, save 10%.
Book 8 consecutive sessions in advance, save 12%.

Working With Children Check

Yes, I'm cleared to work with children in Queensland until 27-Mar-2021 (details available on request)

Gender

Male

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Joined Tutor Finder on 19-Apr-2019 (updated profile on 13-Apr-2026)