{"id":445,"date":"2024-08-06T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pymblelc.nsw.edu.au\/pymble-institute\/?page_id=445"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:42:20","slug":"meet-the-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pymblelc.nsw.edu.au\/pymble-institute\/about\/meet-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e16eb83a\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pymblelc.nsw.edu.au\/pymble-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/08\/sarah.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-448 size-cropped_4x3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pymblelc.nsw.edu.au\/pymble-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/08\/sarah.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pymblelc.nsw.edu.au\/pymble-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/08\/sarah-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr Sarah Loch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Over her career in education, Dr Sarah Loch has been a social educator for adults with disability, a secondary school English and History teacher, wellbeing leader, school executive leader, and academic and research assistant in Education at a number of Australian universities. She is the founding Director of the Pymble Institute where she works with students and staff, as well as academics and partners from external organisations, to create opportunities for research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah gained her PhD in Education from the University of Queensland with a thesis examining ways young adolescent girls select school subjects and plan for their futures. She has a Masters degree in Teaching and another in the Middle Years of Schooling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She supports students and staff in their research endeavours on an individual basis and through the Sokratis program, professional learning and building partnerships with academics. Sarah holds an Honorary Appointment as an Industry\/Professional Fellow with International Studies and Education, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney. She is a Fellow of the New South Wales Teachers\u2019 Guild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"About Sarah Loch | Pymble Ladies&#039; College\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/89y__qWgDzI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-blue-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-blue-background-color has-background is-style-default\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-daae4a9f\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pymblelc.nsw.edu.au\/pymble-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/08\/Victoria.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-449 size-cropped_4x3\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pymblelc.nsw.edu.au\/pymble-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/08\/Victoria.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pymblelc.nsw.edu.au\/pymble-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/08\/Victoria-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Victoria Adamovich<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria Adamovich moved from Taipei to London at the age of eight and studied French and Politics at The University of Edinburgh. After working for a decade as a marketing executive in Asia, she retrained as a teacher at the University of Hong Kong. She taught in bilingual English-Chinese schools in Hong Kong and Shanghai before returning with her family to Sydney in 2017 to work at Pymble Ladies College as an EAL\/D teacher. She believes in the importance of maintaining heritage languages and that cultural literacy is a crucial skill for our students. In order to better understand the students and families she supports; she embarked on a Master of Research at University Technology Sydney to study the wellbeing of migrant children.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria also works as the Research Associate with the Pymble Institute. In this role, she helps run the College\u2019s ethics committee and research conferences; conducts literature reviews on strategic College projects; and data collection and analysis of research projects in the College such as the longitudinal research on the Residential Program at Vision Valley.&nbsp; &nbsp;She has also authored a children\u2019s picture book \u201cThe Story of My Names\u201d which was performed by the Year 5 students.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarah Loch Over her career in education, Dr Sarah Loch has been a social educator for adults with disability, a secondary school English and History teacher, wellbeing leader, school executive leader, and academic and research assistant in Education at a number of Australian universities. 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