A husband and wife team at CQU Sydney International Campus, Associate Professor Teresa Buczkowska and Associate Professor Janusz Buczkowski, are currently combining their industry knowledge and experience working side by side supervising students for the Professional Doctorate program.

Dr Teresa and Dr Janusz have both had a long history of experience in industry and academia. They have both been involved in supervising masters and PhD programs for the many universities at which they have worked.

For almost eight years they lived and worked at universities in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya developing university curricula. They developed the first masters program in Telecommunication Engineering.

They then both moved to Papua New Guinea and finally settled in Australia. They have both held the title of Associate Professor – Dr Janusz in Papua New Guinea and Dr Teresa at UTS, Sydney, where she, apart from teaching, conducted Telecommunications and IT projects through Insearch as a consultant. During this time, Dr Teresa also worked as an academic in the USA. They are both currently Adjunct Associate Professors of CQU.

Dr Teresa commenced at CQU in 1996 while Dr Janusz worked in the IT industry. Dr Teresa was previously the Sub-Dean of both the faculties of Business & Law and Informatics & Communication at Sydney International Campus and has returned to a teaching role to give her more time to further her research in the E-learning and knowledge management areas, her interests being “talent and knowledge management in the New Economy”, “teaching and learning issues including e-learning”, “strategic planning and teletraffic engineering” and “knowledge management”. This relates to developing higher corporate performance and employee commitment.

Dr Janusz is also furthering his research in the areas of “teletraffic engineering”, “application of e-learning in professional and technical training” and “telecommunication technology and policies in developing countries”.

Dr Teresa has been invited to the International Conference ItiRA 2003 in December, which is organised by CQU Informatics and Communications Faculty, to the reviewing of papers of “IT in developing countries” and was recently invited by the Faculty of Education, CQU, to be a member of the panel for the confirmation seminar for the Doctorate of Education.