Masters Mentor Program

The Mentor Program is designed to provide support to students enrolled in the various Economics postgraduate coursework program.

Each Semester, current coursework Masters students are appointed as Mentors. The Mentors have 1 hour of consultation per week for student enquiries and students are encouraged to speak with their Mentors and raise any issues or concerns they may have.

The Mentors meet regularly with the Postgraduate Academic Coordinator and the Mentor Program Coordinator. This is an opportunity for the Mentors to discuss any issues raised by their fellow students.

The School considers the role of the Mentors to be highly valuable and encourages all students to utilise the Mentor Program. Our Mentor students find the experience highly rewarding and invaluable.

Mentors for 2008:

Brita Pekarsky

G56
Napier Building
Available Thursdays, 15.00-16.0

brita.pekarsky@adelaide.edu.au

I am completing my second year of a PhD on pharmaceutical pricing. I am happy to talk to any of the post graduate students who might feel they are overwhelmed by study or just missing their family at home. My son, Sunjay, is 15 (which is a nice way of saying that I am a mother not a recent graduate) If you would like to contact me: email brita.pekarsky@adelaide.edu.au or text me on 0410 619018.

Alick Nyasulu

G38 (Masters Computer Suite)
Napier Building
Available Thursdays, 14.00-15.00

alick.nyasulu@adelaide.edu.au

I come from Malawi and graduated from the University of Malawi in 1999 with a Bachelor of Social Science degree majoring in Economics with credit. I am in the third and last semester of the Master of Applied Economics programme.

I worked as a Business Reporter in Malawi's leading daily paper, The Nation for six months in 1999. Until I came to Adelaide University in 2007, I have been working with the Malawi National Statistical Office since 2000 resppnsobile for compilation of Malawi's national accounts and balance of payments statistics. I have done courses in national income accounting at the IMF Institute in Washington DC and the Inwent Munich Center for Economic, Social and environmental statistics in Germany. I have also been a technical member of the World Bank International Comparison project (ICP) for Malawi. I have been a consultant for the Malawi National Aids Commission and Every Child (UK) in the areas of HIV work place policies and child exploitation respectively. I have been an active member of the Malawi government poverty review perogrammes and design of Malawi economic growth strategies. I have also been involved in Microfinance studies with the European Union in Malawi specfically among rural women.

My interests are in Development Economics and Trade. I am always keen to try to learn new things and sometimes I fee like I am into any field. I have the experience of working with various nationalities of people and I am keen to meet you to share my sucesses as a student of the School of Economics.

Terry Heung Yeung Cheuk

G38 (Masters Computer Suite)
Napier Building
Available Wednesdays, 14.00-15.00

heung.cheuk@student.adelaide.edu.au

I'm from Hong Kong and have been in Adelaide for 4 years now. I completed by Bachelor of Finance degree at The University of Adelaide and am currently studying the Master of Applied Economics. I would like to share my own experiences of being an international student in Adelaide with our new international students.