Most terms, we look to add new courses and people in our areas, from archaeology to zoology.
Our focus is not to add new tutors and courses in and of itself, but to ensure that our course offer continues to explore timely and exciting subjects and offer expanding horizons, all while becoming ever more inclusive of our global past and present.
Please join us in welcoming Annamaria, Ben, Chris, David, Judy, Michele, Nathalie, Olivia and Siobhán!
Annamaria Carusi
Annamaria has PhD in philosophy and has held various scholarly posts in South Africa, Denmark, Norway and Britain, received funding from the Wellcome Trust amongst others, and taught medical practitioners and scientists on the philosophy of medicine and science. As she notes, medicine is not only about the science and evidence for medical practices. It is also political, social, cultural and personal. Her course is about the kind of knowledge and value system that makes up medicine in its current form, and explores how it has evolved, what its main features are, what its strong and weak points are, and, potentially, how it is changing.
Find out more about Annamaria’s course here:
Ben Chapple
Ben has a background in Zoology with a focus on biodiversity and conservation. Alongside his academic work, Ben is also an experienced natural history tour guide in the UK and Madagascar. Currently, Ben is completing his PhD at Imperial College London on nature-based tourism in Kenya on both people and wildlife in light of climate change. At City Lit, Ben is keen to offer nature walks and ornithology courses focusing on Richmond Park and Walthamstow.
Chris Hale
Chris Hale is a veteran documentary producer and award-winning author of five non-fiction books. He holds a Masters/LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Edinburgh, specialising in genocide. As a producer, he focused on science stories for the prestigious BBC strand Horizon. As a non-fiction author, Chris has researched and written highly original works about the Holocaust and colonial history in SE Asia. These include ‘Hitler’s Foreign Executioners: Europe’s Dirty Secret’ (2008, 2022) which exposed the non-German murder squads recruited by the SS and ‘Deception’ (2017) about the Hungarian Holocaust. As a producer and executive producer, Chris has worked extensively in South and Southeast Asia where he established a documentary production unit in Singapore. His books ‘Massacre in Malaya’ (2013) and ‘A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia’ (2023) focused on the impact of European colonial powers.
David Ingledew
David has over twenty years’ experience in secondary schools and higher education. He holds a degree in Economics and History and a MA in History from Oxford Brookes University and has been an active member of the Historical Association (HA) and was recently a member of the People of 1381 Teacher Fellowship programme. He has also presented at history education conferences in Europe and the USA. His specific area of teaching expertise is post-1945 British political, economic, and social history particularly the 1978-79 Winter of Discontent and the Thatcher governments 1979-1990 but he teaches beyond these topics: British history 1603-1997; Russian history 1881-1990; American history 1865-2008, particularly the struggle for black equality; the use of popular music in history learning; and medicine history, c.1300 to the present day; and migration c. 1700 to the present day. David spends his spare time tending an unruly allotment, purveying homemade jam, and listening to Northern Soul music.
Denise Noble
Denise is an innovative and experienced teacher, having taught African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University and having been part of the team that set of the Black Studies degree programme at Birmingham city University. Fully supporting the department’s vision, Denise wants Black Studies and Feminist and postcolonial studies to reach a wider audience and enable more people to learn more about the social and cultural history of the Black presence in Britain and its relationship to the history and sociology of race, racism, empire and decolonial/postcolonial politics.
Jenneba Sie-Jalloh
Jenneba is an experienced educator undertaking a PhD in non-fiction about identity, memory and belonging and with experience in oral and family history. For years, Jenneba has run workshops, in schools, community centres, local libraries as well as the British Library and London Transport Museum. One of her projects was the oral history project 'Saints and Sinners', which captured the experiences of teenage boys arriving to the UK from Sierra Leone in the 1940s. She is also a trustee of 'On the Record', an oral history organization, which advocates: 'Oral history to inspire social change'.
Judy Johnson
Judy holds degrees in biology, chemistry and criminology and has worked in both care and education. Now teaching, working as a lab technician and running her own pottery instruction courses, Judy likes to keep busy and wants to bring people into her subjects to expand their horizons. Judy is excited to teach forensic science at City Lit. If you are curious, want inspiration for your whodunnit novel or play or want to take what you remember from your biology and chemistry classes in a new direction, Judy’s classes are for you!
Olivia Durand
Olivia Durand is global historian doing work and teaching on the politics of history and memory, settler colonialism and colonial port cities in addition to the history of 19th century Russia, Ukraine and America. Olivia has worked at Oxford University, the Free University in Berlin and the Institute of Historical Justice and Reconciliation in the Hague and is keen to offer more courses in her subject areas at City Lit.
Michele Scott
Michele Scott is an experienced Criminologist and Sociologist who has taught in a range of colleges, such as City of Westminster and Universities such as Birkbeck, LSE and London Metropolitan University as a Lecturer on courses such such as the Sociology of Crime and Deviance, Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity as well as Black Studies, Law, Justice and Society, Criminal Justice and Criminological courses. Michele is also an advocate for neurodiverse and SEND children. She also attained a wealth of voluntary experience surrounding supporting the needs of the parents of neurodiverse children alongside neurodiverse children themselves, schools in attaining EHCPs for neurodiverse children as well as ensuring their needs are effectively met within these educational establishments.
Nathalie Puget
Nathalie Puget is a Garden Designer, Horticulturalist and experienced Lecturer. Nathalie has a Diploma in Garden Design and the RHS Level 3 Diploma in The Principles and Practices of Horticulture, she has been teaching Garden Design and Planting Design Qualifications for the past twelve years as well as running her own Garden Design Practice. Nathalie studied History and History of Art at the Sorbonne University in Paris, before moving to London in the 1980s, history being a key part of understanding Garden Design today, Nathalie has taken many groups of students to gardens and parks in and around London to discover the fascinating connections to wider historical developments and understand where our familiar garden features come from.
Learn about Nathalie's courses here:
Siobhán McGuirk
Siobhán is a researcher, journalist, educator and filmmaker who specializes in migration & borders, sexuality & gender, social justice movements, and art, curation and collaborative methods, and works as an editor and columnist for Red Pepper Magazine. She has appeared on podcasts, spoken at festivals, produced films and curated exhibitions. Having also taught at universities in both Washington and London, Siobhán will be teaching politics courses that explore the connections between migration, sexuality and gender, capitalism and social justice movements at City Lit.
We are very excited to have them join us and see their courses enjoy enrolments, so they can get to expanding horizons! Don’t miss out!
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