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Our People

Meet the team

Cam Bestwick

Principal

Cam is a consultant, trainer, educationalist, and experienced leader in school and university settings. He has extensive experience designing, managing, evaluating and re-designing services and programs aimed at improving student transition, agency and success. He is a leading figure in residential education, having held leadership roles in the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, UniLodge, the University of Melbourne, as well as various peak bodies.

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Areas of expertise:  

  • Service design & improvement 

  • Students as Partners (SaP) & student consultation 

  • Student transition & self-directed learning 

  • Student housing & residential education 

  • Culture & change management 

  • Strategic planning & implementation 

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Laura Burge

Director

Laura is a driving force for student engagement, equity and success in Australian higher education. She has held multiple leadership roles at Deakin University and La Trobe University and spearheaded professional organisations such as the Victorian Tertiary Education Primary Prevention Network (Gender-Based Violence) and the Asia Pacific Student Accommodation Association. She is a member of the Editorial Board for the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association’s academic journal, JANZSSA, and the Steering Committee of the WATTLE Women's Leadership Program. Her practice and thought leadership on positive cultures at Australian universities is highly regarded and followed throughout the sector. 

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Areas of expertise:  

  • Diversity, equity and inclusion 

  • Gender-based violence 

  • Evidence-based approaches 

  • Student & employee engagement 

  • Promoting positive cultures 

  • Student housing & residential education 

  • Implementation & project leadership 

Ankita Sen

Director

Ankita is an economist, provisional psychologist and doctoral candidate (clinical psychology). Her rare combination of expertise in psychology and economics is of equally uncommon value to the growing need for effectiveness in wellbeing programs. She built up this expertise in diverse roles spanning Deloitte Access Economics, PwC, the Centre for International Economics, the Melbourne Nueropsychiatry Centre, and others (registered practice is confidential).

 

Areas of expertise:  

  • Youth and adolescent mental health 

  • Program evaluations  

  • Stakeholder consultations 

  • Data collection & analysis  

  • Cost-benefit analyses 

  • Business case development  

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​​​​​We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, skies and waterways across the continent we know of as Australia. We recognise the impacts of colonisaiton are ongoing. We are committed to advancing reconciliation through our education, engagement, and example.​

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