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Biography

Helen Walsh is the Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts. As a teaching scholar, Helen’s primary focus is on providing a smooth transition experience for first-year students and a supportive and positive learning environment that fosters respectful relationships and promotes intellectual engagement. Helen has a Master of Laws from QUT and her research interests include legal education, family law and children’s law. Helen is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and, prior to her appointment at SCU, was employed in private practice in the Northern Rivers region working mainly in the area of family and criminal law.

Helen's work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Honours

Inspiring Educators Award
Southern Cross University, 2021
Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning - For significant and sustained commitment to the support, engagement, learning and retention of students in first-year undergraduate law programs.
Southern Cross University, 2008
National Finalist - Australian's Universities Lecturer of the Year
NA, 2008

Organisational affiliations

Academic, Law, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University

Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University

Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University

Legal Practitioner, Supreme Court of NSW

Council Member, Family Law Section of Law Council of Australia

Member, Australasian Law Academics Association

Community of Management member, Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre

Member, National Mediators Standards Board

Member, Family Law Pathways Network (Northern Rivers)

Member, NSW Regional Women Lawyers

Past affiliations

Lecturer (Teaching Scholar), School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University

Member, Legal Education Associate Deans

Education

Southern Cross University
LLB
Queensland University of Technology
LLM