Overview

With a background in Classics, History (and particularly history of religion), my prime interest is in education as a social praxis and the discourse of knowledges and knowers. My recent research and practice centres on Interdisciplinarity (chiefly through the recent UCL Interdisciplinary 'Evidence Programme').

Within CALT, I am acting Programme Leader for the MA Education and also the now-closed Academic Practice as well as Graduate Tutor for the Department, and module leader for courses on Quality, Consistency and Cost-Effectiveness, Policy and Perspectives and modules concerned with Academic Practice (Professionalism in the Academic Community and Higher Education and Academic Identity). Like many CALT staff, I have been a tutor on our module Exploring Learning in Higher Education and for the Graduate School I run a course for graduate students on Interdisciplinarity Studies of Evidence.

I also maintain our wiki and maintain a number of UCL email lists: I recently took over running the Interdisciplinary Evidence email list; I also maintain user groups (iPhone, LaTeX) and a History of Medicine list).

Academic Interests

My abiding academic interest is in publicly contested knowledge systems: beginning with ancient Roman religion and historiography, I have moved to a general interest in interdisciplinarity, a complex discourse that focusses more on process and communication than 'results'. It profoundly implicates academic identity and the constructed nature of knowledge. To this end, I am engaged in writing a book, jointly with Professor Stephen Rowland on Talking Across the Disciplines, based largely on our collaboration in the UCL Interdisciplinary Programme on Evidence.

Publications

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