New job!

I am delighted to be able to write that I have been appointed as an Associate Tutor at the University of Warwick, based within the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies. I will be leading the MA module, ‘Museums and Heritage: Policy and Practice’ starting next week. An exciting new challenge for 2019! Photo…

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” –Japanese proverb

So I find myself job searching, once again. It’s slightly embarrassing to admit.  After 14 months (six months freelance, eight months full-time), I’ve been made redundant. I really thought the whole ‘heritage consultancy’ thing was going to work out. I thought it was the solution to my precarious post-PhD situation. It wasn’t. Still, I now have…

Ch ch ch ch changes…

In the last month, three big things have happened: I am now employed on a full-time permanent basis by Tricolor. I am working on behalf of Tricolor at Sutton Hoo (that’s one childhood dream ticked off!). Because of the new job and changed circumstances, I’ve had to ditch the teaching course – but not before…

On submitting my first assessment

This week’s reflective journal entry… This week we’ve been asked to reflect on how submitting our first assignment for the ATP made us feel. My key concern was making sure that I had all the elements, uploaded to the right place and that the submission went through without any obstacles. Because I was going to…

Teaching methods

This week’s reflective journal post… For this week’s reflection, we have been asked to consider the particular approaches to and teaching methods within our discipline. In my current role at Loughborough University, there is an inherent challenge in supporting students who are otherwise creative practitioners (as fine artists, graphic designers, textile designers, etc.), to undertake…

Perpetual student

This week I’ve started the Associate Teaching Programme at Loughborough University, to support my work there as a University Teacher. As part of the course, I have to write a reflective journal and, largely to try out the software and get my bearings, I wrote a short piece this evening about my thoughts at the…

New job news

I am delighted to have been asked by the School of the Arts at Loughborough University to do some undergraduate dissertation tutoring this coming semester. I am really looking forward to extending my teaching experience somewhere new to me and in a different context – back to my art history roots! Photograph of Loughborough University by…