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Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Specialist case manager working in Durham University’s Student Conduct Office team. Primary focus on responding to disclosures and reports under the University’s Sexual Misconduct and Violence Policy, and case managing trauma-informed investigations under this Policy and related procedure. Other role responsibilities include facilitating and delivery of specialist SMV training to internal stakeholders.

Department Of History, Durham University

Strand Leader, 'Empire, Information and the Trade of Knowledge, 1758-1858', HIST2922 Conversations with History. Level 2 undergraduate module which focuses on the study and analysis of history writing and the construction of historiography through the lens of the British East India Company and colonial South Asia. Undergraduate Dissertation Supervisor.

Part-time secondment. Specialist case manager working in Durham University’s Student Conduct Office team. Primary focus on responding to disclosures and reports under the University’s Sexual Misconduct and Violence Policy, and case managing internal investigations.

Durham, United Kingdom

Team lead for student support and welfare, and supporting the Principal and Vice-Principal in the design and delivery of the student development programme at University College.

Durham, United Kingdom

Deputy Head of University College. Responsibility for student support, development and wider experience; student conduct; accommodation and allocations; and deputising for the Principal of the College.

Part-time, fixed-term secondment role in the Human Resources and Organisational Development team, Durham University. Drove initial stages of project resulting from Respect Commission Report (2020), which aimed to design and implement Active Bystander training and rolled out to all students and staff. This included conducting internal and external stakeholder engagement, training needs analyses, and presentation of final recommendations to key decision-makers. The training programme now developed stems from this initial work.

Department Of History, Centre For Nineteenth-Century Studies

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow. 'Imagining India: Mughal Art and Colonial Knowledge Networks in the creation of Modern British Zoology, 1800 - 1858'Interdisciplinary study and analysis of Anglo-Indian zoological paintings, colonial knowledge networks, and the origins of 'modern' British zoology in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Teaching:2017-2018HIST2922 Conversations with History Strand leader- Empire, the East India Company, and the Trade in Knowledge, 1757-18582018-2019HIST2922 Conversations with History Strand leader- Empire, the East India Company, and the Trade in Knowledge, 1757-1858HIST3192 Dissertation in History Dissertation SupervisorAdditional activities:Member of AHRC Northern Bridge/DDS PhD application screening panel, Department of HistoryMember of Leverhulme Early Career Fellow application screening panel, Department of HistoryChair (Arts and Humanities), Research Staff Association

Leeds, United Kingdom

Prince Philip Zoological Library & Archives

Fellowship at the ZSL Prince Philip Library and Archives, awarded in 2014 and renewed in 2015 and 2016. Researching the zoological work of Brian Houghton Hodgson (1801-1894) in Nepal and the Himalayas, and Samuel Tickell (1811-1875) as part of a wider project analysing the intellectual and cultural networks linking Britain and Asia during the early-nineteenth century.

Module Leader, HIS102 Foundations of European HistoryFirst-year undergraduate module, 60 students. Encompassing European history from the Reformation to the Russian Revolution and the end of the First World War.

School Of History, Classics And Archaeology

Specialising in British and European History, 1750-1990, with a focus on interdisciplinary studies. Teaching staff member on a broad range of introductory and specialist subject undergraduate modules (stages 1-3). Dissertations supervisor (stage 3) in modern British history. Lecturing staff on MA British history modules.2015-2016 Academic Year:Module Leader, HIS2037 'Progress and Plenty?' - British History, 1815-1918. 60 students.Second-year undergraduate module, 60 students. British socio-economic, political and cultural history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the end of the First World War.Group Leader, HIS3000 'Reading History'. Cultures of Enlightenment, c. 1700-1815Dissertation Supervisor, HIS3020 'Writing History'Guest Lecturer, HIS3030 'History and Society'Lecturer, HIS8105, 'Reform and Resistance' (MA)Seminar Leader, HIS1025, 'World Empires'Seminar Leader, HIS1027, 'Themes in European History'Seminar Leader, HIS1044, 'Aspects of British History'

'The Reverent Eye: Scientific Visual Culture and the Origins of Modern British Zoology, 1815-1840'AHRC-funded PhD thesis, History and Philosophy of Nineteenth-Century Science.

Robinson Library, Special Collections

Special Collections department of the Robinson Library, resulting from the award of a Robinson Bequest Scholarship. Transcribing and cataloguing the correspondence of Gertrude Bell and Charles Doughty-Wylie, 1913-1915.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Teaching first-year undergraduate modules on British, European and imperial history.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

One of a specialist curatorial team working to create an exhibition on the life and work of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926).'The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell: A Story of Adventure, Discovery and Political Intrigue'. GNM: Hancock, 30 January - 3 May 2016.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Cataloguing, transcribing and interpretation of the correspondence and manuscripts of Albany Hancock (1806-1873), marine biologist and zoologist, in the collections of the Great North Museum (Hancock).

Durham, United Kingdom

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), History And Philosophy Of Science

Activities and Societies: Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Advisory Board Committee member

Mlitt, History Of Science, Distinction

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History, First