Educator 

Alastair Tomkins

​B.Comm (UNSW) M.Ed (UTS) ATCL Cert.TESOL (Cambridge) FHEA

 

Alastair has been involved in Arts Education since the early 2000's when he began teaching adult learners about improvising. He later worked for the Queensland Dept of Education designing and managing the Creative Generation Arts program. Alastair worked as Performance Manager at Sheldon College for 13 years and now works in the tertiary sector in Student Life at ACU. He has Professional Indemnity Insurance for workshop teaching, a current Blue Card for working with children, and also has Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training (BSZ40198). 

Alastair has been an in-schools Drama/Impro workshop presenter for 20 years across Queensland and regional NSW in the government and independent schools sectors. He has also worked as a presenter in the corporate and adult learner environment utilising impro games to build creative capacity. 

Alastair has presented at state and national Drama conferences in Australia, delivered cognition workshops for gifted & talented students at UNSW and QAGTC, and has presented PD workshops in Applied Improvisation for university sector Health Science educators.

He completed a Masters degree in Education at the University of Technology Sydney and was elected as the 2024 post-graduate representative on the UTS Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences board. Alastair was admitted as a Fellow of Advance Higher Education (FHEA) in 2024.