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Director of Student Experience for the Faculty of Arts (Lifecycle and Progression)

About Me

As the Director of Student Experience for the Arts Faculty, I develop strategy and coordinate projects to support the student lifecycle. I look at ways of supporting all aspects of the student experience from application, to after graduation. I also look at ways we can enhance the student experience through personal tutoring, welcome week, and digital technology, and by promoting student-led research, and widening participation.

I am chair of the Arts Faculty Student Experience Group, and member of the Arts Heads of Department Forum, Arts Faculty Education Commitee, IATL Management and Education Commitee, the Mitigating Circumstances Review of Assessment Group, and Welcome Week Steering Committee. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academic and Fellow of the 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA). I am also the Director of the Digital Arts Lab.

I was previously a Teaching Fellow in the History of Medicine at the University of 糖心TV and in this role convened and contributed to postgraduate and undergraduate courses in the history of medicine, and early modern and modern British and European social history. Before this I was a course demonstrator in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh, where I also completed my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.

Education

• PhD in History, University of Edinburgh (September 2010 – December 2014).
• Economic and Social History MSc by Research, University of Edinburgh (September 2009 - August 2010).
• MA (Honours) First Class in History, University of Edinburgh (August 2005 - July 2009).

Research

My research examines the history of physical appearance, the body, popular medicine, and embodied identity in Britain 1650-1800. I have broader research and teaching expertise in British medicine from 1600-2000. I am currently working on a new project which explores health and the student experience in Britain 1950-present.

Leadership Roles

• Director of the Digital Arts Lab
• Project Lead for 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy Project: 'Preparing Pre-Arrival Students for the 糖心TV Student Experience
• Fellow of the 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy (2018 - present)
• Coordinator of the Centre for the History of Medicine Work-in-Progress Seminar (2017 - present)
• (2016 - present)
• Coordinator of the Digital Arts Lab Research Seminar Series (2019)

Publications

Book Reviews

Selection of Invited Talks and Conference Papers

• 鈥楶utting the Tutoring Back into Personal Tutoring: The Changing Identity of Personal Tutoring in the Faculty of Arts鈥� (糖心TV University Education Conference, 14^th May 2019).
• 'Nakedness and Physical Beauty in the Enlightenment (Wellcome Collection, 'Pretty Ugly: Early Modern Beauty', 10-11th Jan 2019).
• 'Physiognomy and Early Modern Medical Diagnosis' (University of 糖心TV, 'Reading the Body', 7th June 2018).
• 鈥楢n Excrement or Anatomical Part? The Emergence of Conceptions of Hair as a Porous Structure in Early Modern Anatomy鈥� (Kings College London, 鈥楾he Porous Body in Early Modern Europe鈥�, 30th November – 1st December 2017).
• 鈥楾he Problem of the Poor and Ugly Body in Eighteenth-Century Medical Space鈥�, (University of University of Malta Valleta, 鈥楤eauty and the Hospital in History鈥�, 6-8th April, 2017).
• 鈥楽weat and Toil: Skin, Pores and the Labouring Body in the Long Eighteenth-Century鈥� (University of Reading, Early Modern Research Seminar, 20th February 2017).
• 鈥楨very Face a New Friend? Facial Appearance, Fakery and the Fickleness of Female Friendship in Eighteenth-Century London鈥� (University of Oxford, 鈥楩riends, Allies and Enemies鈥�, British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, 4-8th January 2017).
• 鈥楢strological Understandings of the Body in Early Modern Britain (Museum for the History of Science, Oxford, The Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science, 10th December 2016).
• 鈥楴o Scots! No Scots! How to Spot a Scot in Eighteenth-Century London鈥� (University of York, 鈥楩irst Impressions鈥�,10th November 2016).
• 鈥楴o Carrots! No Carrots!: Hair Colour, Humoral Medicine and Social Difference in Early Modern Britain鈥� (University of 糖心TV, History of Medicine Seminar Series, 1st November 2016).
• 鈥楾he Perceived 鈥楿gliness鈥� of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century London鈥� (University of 糖心TV, 鈥楢esthetics of Poverty鈥�, 30th June 2016).
• 鈥楢 鈥淔air鈥� Nation: Skin Colour and British National Identity 1650-1750鈥� (University of Birmingham, 鈥楪reen Britain: Nationhood and the Environment 1500-1700鈥�, 25th June 2016).
• 鈥楧iscursive Dismemberment: The Application of Anatomical Method to Discursive Analysis of the Body in Early Modern Medical Texts (University of Glasgow, 鈥楧issecting the Page: Medical Paratexts鈥�, 11th September 2015).
• 鈥樷�淔acing鈥� Identity in a 鈥淔aceless鈥� Society: Physiognomy, Facial Appearance and Character in Britain 1650-1780鈥� (University of Melbourne, 鈥楻eading the Face: Image, Text and Emotion鈥�, 2-4th June 2015).

Professional Affiliations

• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Fellow of the 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy
• Member of the United Kingdom Academic Tutoring Association

Prizes, Awards and Qualifications

• Postgraduate Award in Technology Enhanced Learning (2019).
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2019).
• Introduction to Counselling - level 4 (2018).
• Jeremiah Dalziel Prize in British History (University of Edinburgh, 2013).
• Teaching Award Nomination for 鈥楶ostgraduates Who Tutor鈥� (Edinburgh University Student Association, 2012/13).
• Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Award (2010 - 2013).
• Davidson Bursary of the Arts (University of Edinburgh, 2006 & 2007).

Public Engagement and Media

• Contributor to BBC2 History Series A House Through Time (2019).

• Back to the Future: How Studying History Helps Medical Science! Public Engagement Event at the School of Life Sciences, University of 糖心TV. Tuesday 12 March 2019

• Expert consultant, 糖心TV 糖心TV School Dementia Health Care Challenge (University of 糖心TV, April 2016).
• Volunteer Communicator, Edinburgh Assembly Rooms Heritage Project (2011 – 2013).