About Me.

 

Who I am...

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I first graduated with my Bachelor's degree in 2011 and while I will always say that I worked hard to earn it, I cannot dismiss the support that I recieved from my tutors, peers and family. In this, I was incredibly lucky because not everyone has this support easily available when they need it.

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In 2013, I moved to Austria to teach and was there exposed to a very different kind of HE system, one which was far more driven, with high expectations that students were to be independently responsible for their own learning and success. However this made it somewhat rigid and inflexible to my eyes, lacking in personal suppport and so I made it by business to help those who I could, on a personal level.

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2017 saw my return to the UK, subsequent achievement of the postgraduate title Master of Letters and my first encounter with student support in a professional capacity. I have since gone on to occupy multiple positions in HE in both the fields of student support and academic teaching, most recently earning the title Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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What I have learned...

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For a long time I have been aware of the growing numbers of students requesting additional support and disclosing invisible conditions prior to this, in a growing trend which the UK HE industry is still currently trying to accommodate. The more work that I have undertaken in this field, the more diverse my knowledge and skillset has become having worked with students of various ages, ethnicities, social situation and educational background.

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What I can offer you...

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I read...I write...I talk...I listen...

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It might sound simple but this is what I do, the same four things any student has to do on a daily basis, but what they also all too often struggle with because maybe they are scared, uncertain or just having a bad day. I am a sounding board for ideas, a test audience for experimental writing, a guide through some of the more complex theoretical areas of HE and most of all, a voice to remind someone that they are not alone.

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More specifically, I work in a one-to-one capacity with students to provide them with a scaffold for their learning, calling upon my years studying and teaching to help them build their confidence to experiment, explore and find their own academic voice and develop the necessary skills to succeed at undergraduate and postgraduate study.

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I oversee all levels of study from undergraduate to doctoral, provide both written and verbal feedback on assignments, tailor my approach and reccomendations to each individual student and speak to them, not as a teacher looking down at a learner, but on an equal footing, as one academic speaking to another, because whether my students are at the start or the end of their studying, they are academics and worthy of being treated as such.