Gavin brings a lifelong engagement with philosophy to his teaching, shaped by some 30 years professional employment here and overseas. He holds a double major in English and Philosophy (BA), and an MA (Honours) in Literature. He has tutored at the University of Sydney, and taught Communications at TAFE for over a decade.

By “going back to school” in early adulthood, Gavin experienced first‑hand the transformative power of education. In this time, he developed enduring commitment to philosophical study and inquiry. More than the study of ideas, he sees philosophy as an awakening—a way of discovering and resolving forms of un-freedom and, perhaps, to see afresh, at some deeper level, what we already knew