TEACHING AND EDUCATION RESEARCH AND RECOGNITION

In 2025, I signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to write a Cambridge Elements volume for their new series "Elements in History and Contemporary Society," which is edited by Professor Richard Toye (University of Exeter) and Dr Vivienne Xiangwei Guo (King’s College London). The book, which I will co-author with Dr Abigail Branford (University of Oxford), will explore how young people learn about British imperialism in school, and more widely, in the twenty-first century. The new book series is sponsored by the Royal Historical Society, which will provide funding to make the volume open access when it is completed, meaning it will be available digitally free-of-charge via CUP at some point in 2026, all being well...

In 2024, I was coopted to the Expert Group for Citizenship for the Oak National Academy. They are an independent public body that "work to improve pupil outcomes and close the disadvantage gap by supporting teachers to teach, and enabling pupils to access a high-quality curriculum". For more information, see: https://www.thenational.academy/about-us/who-we-are 

In 2022, Advance HE published an overview of some research I was involved in at the University of Wolverhampton regarding feedback in the humanities and social sciences in Higher Education, to find out more, see: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/busting-myths-feedback 

In 2020, my module on "Minorities in the Twentieth-Century United States" received an honourable mention in the HOTCUS Inclusive Curricula Competition. If you would like to find out more, see: https://hotcus.org.uk/hotcus-inclusive-curricula-competition/ 

In 2018, I was invited to speak at the "Engaging with Belonging and Migration in the Curriculum: Strategy and Collaboration Workshop," at the University of Liverpool in London. This was in relation to my 2017 education doctoral thesis: "How Britannia Ruled the Waves: Teaching the History of the British Empire in the Twenty-First Century," available at: https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/thesis/How_Britannia_Ruled_the_Waves_Teaching_the_History_of_the_British_Empire_in_the_Twenty-First_Century/10198478

My work was also cited in a Runnymede Trust Report, "Teaching Migration, Belonging and Empire in Secondary Schools," (2019), available at: https://www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/teaching-migration-belonging-and-empire-in-secondary-schools 

In 2016, I was a Barringer Fellow at Monticello (the home of Thomas Jefferson) in Virginia, and created a three-stage lesson plan and resources, on the following theme: “Empire of Liberty or Empire of Slavery?”. To find out more, see the Monticello Digital Classroom at: https://classroom.monticello.org/lesson-plan/empire-of-liberty-or-empire-of-slavery