Rate My Professor Cameron Tero

Cameron Tero is the Academic Chair of the Community Development program in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Murdoch University. He teaches in the Community Development course, considering it a privilege to spend time with students from around Australia and all over the world. Tero earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Murdoch University in 2025, with a thesis titled “Finding yourself and losing yourself: The textured narratives of humanitarian practitioners.” His research specializations encompass community development, humanitarian work, community activism, and narratives of community practice. Tero has made notable contributions to scholarship on community building and intergenerational exchange. In 2010, he co-authored the article “Australian Perspectives: Community Building Through Intergenerational Exchange Programs,” published in the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. This work, alongside Judith MacCallum, David Palmer, Peter Wright, Wendy Cumming-Potvin, and Miriam Brooker from Murdoch University, explores intergenerational exchange as a vehicle for community building in Australia, utilizing document analysis, focus groups, and interviews to examine non-familial intergenerational relationships.

Earlier, in 2006, Tero contributed to the technical report “Community building through intergenerational exchange programs: Report to the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme (NYARS),” which investigates intergenerational programs as strategies for fostering community connections and addressing youth issues. In 2012, he co-wrote and edited the resource book “All's Well? Exploring the world of water with upper primary students” with Nuella Flynn and Kylie Hosking for the One World Centre (Global Education Project). This publication equips upper primary teachers with tools to deliver rich global learning experiences, enhancing knowledge, skills, and values related to water issues. Tero has supervised postgraduate research, including Sonam Tshering's 2015 Masters by Coursework thesis “Barriers on the emergence of women as leaders in Bhutan.” His scholarly outputs have accumulated 111 citations on ResearchGate, reflecting impact in community engagement and education fields. Additionally, Tero has engaged in academic advocacy, signing open letters concerning refugee rights and COVID-19 risks to detainees as a Murdoch University affiliate. He chairs the Community Development program, guiding courses such as the Bachelor of Arts, Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, and Master of Community Development.