Meet Our People

Professor Darshana Sedera

Associate Dean (International & Engagement)

Darshana Sedera is a Professor of Information Systems and the Director of the Digital Enterprise Lab at the Southern Cross University in Australia. He has published over 300 articles in major refereed journals and conferences on the broader topic of digital business transformation. His publications have appeared in journals such as JAIS, JSIS, I&M, IT&P, and CAIS. He has also served as the CI in several Australian Research Council Grants.

Associate Professor Helen Walsh

Associate Dean (Education)

Helen is a teaching scholar and lecturer. Her primary focus is supporting students in navigating their first year of study. Her work in this area earned her the Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. Helen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and, prior to her appointment at SCU, was employed in private practice working in family and children’s law. In addition to legal education, Helen’s research interests include family law and juvenile justice.

Associate Professor Pascal Scherrer

Associate Dean (Research)

Pascal has strong sustainability expertise applied to areas including plastic waste, regional development, tourism and visitor management. He is the ZeroWaste Cluster Faculty Lead and has successfully worked on a wide range of research projects and consultancies across several levels of government and with universities. He also teaches across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate business and tourism units and supervises PhD research students.

Associate Professor John Haw

Chair of Discipline (Management)

John is a teaching scholar with a strong background in teaching statistics and research design across multiple disciplines. He also teaches gaming management, service quality and organisational management. His most recent research has focussed on the scholarship of teaching and improving student experiences with their education.

Clinical Professor David Heilpern

Chair of Discipline (Law)

David Heilpern was a Magistrate and judicial trainer from 1998 to 2020. Prior to this appointment, David was a litigation lawyer on the North Coast where he co-founded the law school at SCU in 1992, David graduated with a Masters in Law from SCU and was the Alumni of the Decade in 2005. In August 2022 was appointed as a Dean and Chair of Discipline (Law) at SCU. David is passionate about legal education, seeking to ensure that students are stimulated, excited and fulfilled.

Associate Professor Annie Mitchell

Chair of Discipline (Creative Arts)

Teaches contemporary music theory, musicianship, classical music and musicology, composition and arranging, music education, ensemble and piano. Plays piano and double bass.

Dr Georgina Dimopoulos

Director Higher Degrees Research

Dr Georgina Dimopoulos is an Australian lawyer and a socio-legal researcher with expertise in legal and policy evaluation, and doctrinal, qualitative and empirical research, across the areas of family law, children's rights, privacy and family violence. Her book, Decisional Privacy and the Rights of the Child (Routledge, 2022), presents a new model for enabling and listening to children’s voices in decision-making processes.

Ms Cindy Harvey

Faculty Manager