About

Building Bridges – between learners, educators, and researchers, to promote equal access to educational opportunities.

Photo: Nahr El Kalb, Lebanon, 2018.
Photography Copyright: Charlotte Haberstroh

Senior Lecturer in Education, King’s Academy, King’s College London

I’m the Programme and Curriculum Design Lead at King’s Academy and the Faculty Liaison for King’s Business School, where I support academics and professional services with programme and module design.

2022-2024: King’s Academy, Learning Developer (22-23) and Lecturer in Education (23-24)

2024: Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

2018-2021: LSE Fellow in Public Policy and Comparative Politics; Department of Government, LSE; Associate Member, LSE International Inequalities Institute

2015-2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Qualitative Methods, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford / Fellow at Nuffield College

2017: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, training completed at Oxford University

2011-2016: PhD at the European University Institute, Social and Political Science, Florence, Italy

Awards:
2017: Winner of the Linz-Rokkan Prize for best thesis in Political Sociology, EUI
2019: Winner of the LSE Class Teacher Award, Department of Government, LSE

Career breaks:
12/2016-12/2017: maternity leave
02/2021-10/2021: maternity leave

Miscellaneous:
Multilingual: French & German (native), English (fluent), Italian, Spanish. Former Trustee at the St Pancras Community Association, Camden Town, London. Studied at SciencesPo Paris and King’s College London. In my early 20s I used to run and train staff for bi-national youth meetings and language courses for German and French teenagers.