Senior Lecturer
I studied Philosophy and Theology at Oxford University before working as a residential care worker in a therapeutic community in Warwickshire. On returning to Edinburgh I continued to pursue academic study whilst working first as a care worker and later as a teacher in units and schools for young people described as having social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). My PhD, completed in 2005, mapped the separate provision available in Scotland for these young people, and explored the experiences of a group of young people of being educated separately. In 2004 I took up a post as lecturer in primary education and SEBD at Edinburgh. My undergraduate teaching focuses on the application of a range of theoretical perspectives to further understanding of disaffected and disruptive behaviour in schools.
Recently graduated students
In 2012/13 I will be teaching the following courses:
Research output: Other contribution
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Schools engagement
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Project: Research
Project: Research
ID: 12347