Ms Diane Hansford

Lecturer in English, Literacies and Language Education - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education

Diane Hansford

Phone: +61 2 6773 5012

Email: dhansfo2@une.edu.au

Biography

Diane Hansford is member of the English, Literacies and Language Education team in the School of Education.  She is an experienced teacher having worked as a classroom teacher and an English Second Language teacher in primary schools in NSW.  Her areas of expertise include primary English, literacy and EAL/D teaching. Prior to working at UNE, she worked with teachers as a Multicultural/ESL Advisor with the Catholic Education Office in Sydney, and moved to Armidale in 1990 to work as a Curriculum Consultant K–12  across the northwest region of New South Wales, for the Catholic Schools Office Armidale . Currently, Diane is the NSW State Director for  the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA), and the President of ALEA Northern NSW Local Council.