Teaching

I teach history at the Department of History at the University of Nottingham, and I previously lectured at the University of Leeds. I have over a decade of teaching experience, and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I have a passion for teaching and love my job! I seek to develop through my teaching a critical approach to history, and ask students to think about how the history of science and medicine can inform the ways we currently understand ideas like health and technology, and the relationship between science and society. I believe that data science approaches can be introduced to the humanities classroom, and I have developed workshops that teach approaches to primary source analysis that use advanced digital methods including machine learning, natural language processing and topic modelling.

I have convened modules on the modern history of science and medicine, including the colonial history, science communication, the history of psychiatry, and the history of magic, science and religion. I have recently designed a module on the global history of science and medicine, and I have supervised over twenty undergraduate dissertations.

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

As convenor:

  • Science Communication (3rd year and Masters)
  • Making Histories of Science (Masters)
  • History of Psychiatry (2nd year)
  • Darwin, Germs, and the Bomb (1st year)
  • Magic, Science, Religion (1st year)
  • Exploring the Arts and Humanities (Foundation Year)

As contributor:

  • History of Modern Medicine

Philosophy

As contributor:

  • Existentialism and Phenomenology (3rd Year)
  • Political Philosophy (2nd Year)
  • History of Western Philosophy (1st Year)
  • Formal Logic (1st Year)
  • Ethics (1st Year)
  • Epistemology and Metaphysics (1st Year)

Workshops

  • [as organiser] London Arts and Humanities Partnership (on behalf of the National Archives): Advanced Digital Methods for Research Students
  • [as speaker]: Masters Writing Conference, University of Leeds.
  • [as organiser] Data Science for Historians, University of Leeds.
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