University of Glasgow, 2024-30

PhD Supervision: I am open—and looking forward—to supervising PhD students and their projects, and helping to secure PhD funding (e.g., SGSS, ESRC). My research specialism encompasses the history of controversial industries, technologies, marketing, and products, as well as maternal and paternal mental health, in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Britain. As a health and business historian based in Sociology and Cultural Studies (within the School of Social and Political Sciences), I am happy to co-supervise across different departments.

MSc Dissertation Supervisor (and Marker) (Term 2) for students in either Sociology, Media, Communications & International Journalism, and Digital Society. Supervised a project on global YouTube influencers and (anti-)feminist beauty and consumerism trends.

University of Warwick, 2022-4.

Themes and Methods in Medical History (Term 1, HI907), teams taught for postgraduates. Developed and taught a seminar ‘Cultures, Technologies and Practices of Reproduction and Childbirth’ reproductive control and feminism.

Mind, Body, and Society: The History of Medicine and Health (Term 2, HI176) for History undergraduates. Developed a one-hour lecture and seminar and delivered the lecture, ‘Health and Beauty’. This explored the late twentieth-century history of health consumerism and the environmental and social determinants of health.

University of Strathclyde, 2020-21.

History of Britain 1707-1900 (Term 1, V1102) for History, Politics, and English undergraduates. Co-taught one group with Dr Martin Mitchell, and another group with Dr Nicola Cacciatore. I arranged one-on-one feedback sessions and marked both groups annotated bibliographical, primary source, and self-reflective essays.

Media and Health (Term 1, P3977) for Journalism, Media and Communication, and Social Policy postgraduates. Presented a two-hour seminar on ‘Body Image and the Media’, exploring the tanning industry’s advertising tactics.

Introduction to Medical History. Disease and Society (Term 2, V1213) for History undergraduates. Taught weekly seminars, arranged one-on-one feedback sessions, and marked all assignments (essays, and group presentations).

Medicine, Health and the Moving Image (Term 2, V1992) for the Health History MSc. Led a two-hour seminar on ‘Sunbed Stereotypes’. Demonstrated how a cultural lens on the changing representations of an industry, its consumers and even the product itself—depicted through music, radio shows, plays, cartoons, television, film—can reveal broader political, economic and socio-cultural changes in everyday public life in Britain.

Cover Teacher/Classroom Learning Assistant, Toot Hill Secondary School/College, Nottingham, 2014-5.

Cover teacher and neurodivergent support for both secondary school and college students, as well as a mentor for A-level students (e.g., teaching, coursework, support for exam revising and UCAS applications).
Achieved the ‘Top Coverer Award’ for my dynamic and compassionate teaching, and for covering a record-breaking 141 lessons in Term 1 (1 September – 24 October).