Professor Steve Tobias is the Interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Arts at ACU. Prior to joining ACU Professor Tobias was the Head of the School of Education at the University of New England. He has also held positions including Head of Department, Course Coordinator, Chief Examiner, Academic Advisor, and Deputy Head of School (La Trobe University).   
Professor Tobias is a qualified secondary mathematics and science teacher with a decade of teaching experience prior to entering teacher education as a mathematics lecturer at La Trobe University in 1989.  
Professor Tobias has a background in Mathematics Education in both teaching and research. His research interests have focused predominantly on teaching and learning mathematics at the school and university levels with a particular emphasis on the factors that affect learning.