Graduate Certificate in Religious Education

Dr Peter Ivers is based on the McAuley (Brisbane) campus of Australian Catholic University (ACU) and has experience in a variety of leadership roles in different settings.

Before coming to ACU on a full-time basis, he worked as the Assistant Principal (Senior Years) at St Eugene College (a prep to Year 12 college) in the Archdiocese of Brisbane. He also worked for many years as the Assistant Principal (Religious Education). At the diocesan level, Peter has held senior roles in Brisbane, Rockhampton and Sydney, working both with Catholic schools and in contexts beyond Catholic schools.

In 2010, Peter completed his doctoral studies through the Centre for Innovation in Education at the Queensland University of Technology. His doctoral work investigated the emergence of educational discourses on religious education in the Archdiocese of Brisbane between 1984 and 2005.

Peter worked as a sessional lecturer at ACU for a number of years and has interests in both religious education and leadership studies. He has a particular interest in online learning platforms.

He currently teaches graduate and postgraduate units in religious education in the following areas: history and theories of religious education, religious education curriculum, social justice, spirituality and partnerships in religious education

Dr Janine Luttick is a lecturer in biblical studies at Australian Catholic University (ACU), in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy. Much of her teaching is with pre-service education students and post-graduate students, particularly teachers as well as other professional people working in and for the Church. Her current research interest is the representations of children in the Bible and in the material culture and literature of the ancient world. Janine also undertakes research in the field of biblical hermeneutics, including its application in the formation of teachers for Catholic schools.

Before taking up this teaching role, Janine completed a PhD at ACU. Her dissertation considered the story of the raising of Jairus’ daughter in Mark’s gospel by examining the role of the body in Mark’s gospel and the function of depictions of females’ bodies in Judaism and Greco-Roman culture in the first century CE. Prior to the PhD, Janine completed a research masters degree at Monash University, at the Centre for Jewish Civilization, in which she studied the understanding of ancient Jewish purity law in modern interpretations of the healing of the leper and the bleeding woman in Mark’s gospel.

In addition to undertaking academic studies, Janine has worked in various roles within Catholic education in Melbourne for the past twenty-eight years, in schools and education offices. She has recently completed a role in the governance of a Catholic secondary school for a girls’ school.