Teaching and training
I am a qualified and highly experienced university teacher (PG Cert HE; FHEA), teacher of ESOL and community group organiser. I am a University of Sussex – Sussex Awards Nominee 2025.
March 2022–present: Assistant Professor in Academic Skills
University of Sussex Law School
- Offering academic advice to students in one-to-one and group sessions
- Teaching on the Justice, Equality and Society module for 1st-year Law students, the Advanced Legal Research and Writing module for Masters students
- Undertaking research on ethnicity awarding gaps.
Sept 2022–present: Community Group Organiser
I co-facilitate Story Tree, a story-reading group for refugees at Jubilee Library, Brighton. We train and fund group leaders from a refugee background.
2021–present: Academic Skills Consultant
University of Sussex
Delivering academic skills workshops for students across the university on topics including planning and structuring; critical thinking; developing an argument; dissertation writing; editing; and improving academic style
2015–present; 2006–08: ESOL Teacher
Teaching English to vulnerable migrants and refugees at the Migrant English Project (voluntary)
2021: Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow
University of Brighton
Offering one-to-one appointments to students and staff to help them to improve their writing.
Aug 2019–March 2022: Student Academic Success Advisor
University of Sussex Business School
Offering academic advice to students in one-to-one and group sessions.
2019: ESOL Teacher
Teaching English to migrants and refugees at Cook, Learn and Eat courses, Brighton
2018–19: Academic Skills Consultant
Careers and Entrepreneurship Centre, University of Sussex
Working in partnership with academic staff and professional services to design and deliver innovative and dynamic academic skills workshops across the university.
Oct 2013 to May 2018: Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow
Careers and Employability Centre, University of Sussex
Running academic skills workshops for undergraduates and Masters students on all aspects of the writing process.
Story mentor: September 2015–18
Little Green Pig, Brighton
Helping children with their writing at story-making workshops
2008–14: Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow
University of Sussex (2008–10); University of Chichester (2011 –12); University of Southampton (2012–13) Offering one-to-one appointments to students to help them to improve their writing.
May 2012–Apr 2013: Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow
Mentoring new Writing Fellows at universities on the south coast
2011: ESOL Teacher
Friends Centre, Brighton
Teaching English from Entry 1 to Level 2
2000–01: ESOL Teacher
CLIC International House, Seville
Teaching English to adults and children; cover teacher of French
School visits
I am available for author visits to primary schools in the south-east of England.
Qualifications
2021: FutureQuals Level 3 Award in Mental Health: Workplace First Aider, St John’s Ambulance
2020: Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
2020: Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Sussex
2014: Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, accredited by the Royal Literary Fund
2000: Trinity Certificate in TESOL (Distinction)