To keep our provision continuously relevant we keep looking for the best and brightest. This time we are very pleased to introduce to you our newest tutors and their courses that bring to bear the experience and expertise in their subject areas. Please join us in welcoming them all.
Dr Alexandre Dab
Alex received his PhD in international history from the London School of Economics where he has been teaching classes on the international history of the 20th century, the Cold War, transatlantic relations, and European integration. His research deals with the rise of Europe as an increasingly cohesive diplomatic actor and its effect on the relation with the United States. Aside from his research, Alex has taken a particular interest in teaching, and he firmly believes in the importance of going beyond university to share his knowledge with a wider audience.
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Dr Gabriel O. Apata
Dr Gabriel O. Apata is a research scholar and academic tutor of many years standing. His undergraduate and post-graduate degrees were in philosophy, while his PhD was in cultural studies/sociology. His academic interests are therefore multi-disciplinary, and his areas of research cover Philosophy, Sociology, Aesthetics, Religion, Post-colonial Studies, African history and politics as well as Diaspora Studies. He has published many academic articles in leading journals on these various subjects as well as reviews of academic books. He is a co-editor of book reviews for the journal Theory, Culture and Society. Gabriel is very excited to starting to teach at City Lit and welcomes everyone to join his classes.
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Ian Mcgarvie
Ian has taught in Adult Education in London from 1996. He holds a degree in Economics and a MSc in Politics and Administration from Birkbeck College, University of London. Ian is highly committed to adult and continuing learning and has taught politics and political history courses at Morley College and Richmond Adult and Community College and Hillcroft College, in addition to Citylit. Ian has held both teaching and academic management roles including the development of humanities courses that engage and inform students in areas including History and Politics and provide opportunities to progress to further study. He has specialised in teaching a range of courses in politics and current affairs focusing on UK governance and developments in the UK constitution. He has also taught courses on domestic and foreign policy, political parties, and assessments of political leadership. He has also taught on Access to Higher Education Courses that prepare student for degree level study.
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Dr Karl White
Karl believes in making philosophy accessible to people of all backgrounds and educational levels and promoting lively and open discussion in the shared journey of learning. He completed a Ph.D on the Romanian-French philosopher EM Cioran at King’s College London. He has tutored students of all ages at university level in various areas such as Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy and Film, and Classical Civilisation. He has published work on Samuel Beckett and written educational works on Shakespeare.
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Dr Linsey Hunter
Linsey discovered her love of History at school because of an inspirational teacher who showed her how history impacted upon every aspect of life and who never shied away from any topic or question that interested us. This ethos of an open and curious study of history is at the core of Linsey's teaching. Linsey studied History at the University of St Andrews, specialising in Medieval Scottish History for her PhD. In 2013, Linsey joined the University of the Highlands and Islands, teaching hybrid courses to adults of all ages and backgrounds. She has been working there for ten years now, developing and diversifying her teaching experience on modules ranging from the Crusades to early modern broadsides. Linsey is currently developing a few research projects, including a book project on a fantastic local legendary figure - Finella, Lady of the Mearns, who is purported to have killed a king in revenge for the murder of her son.
Linsey spends her spare time visiting castles, knitting or trying to keep her knitting out of the paws of one of her seven Maine Coon cats.
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Dr Lucy Sheaf
Lucy taught Philosophy and Ethics at a sixth-form college before doing a PhD in Philosophy at King's College London. Her thesis was on Leibniz's response to the problem of evil, and was supervised by Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza. At King's she taught both the 'Spinoza and Leibniz' and 'Philosophy of Religion' modules. She is currently preparing an edition of Leibniz's early philosophical writings on natural law and jurisprudence, which is under contract with Oxford University Press.
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Dr Matthew Powell
Dr Matthew Powell is a Teaching Fellow in Air Power and Strategic Studies at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell as part of the Portsmouth Military Education Team. He holds a PhD in Modern History from the University of Birmingham. His first book The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1940-1943: A History of Army Co-operation Command was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. He has published in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals and is a regular TVP World (Poland) and British Forces TV. His current research investigates the relationship between the Air Ministry and the British aircraft industry in the inter-war period.
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Dr Ovett Nwosimiri
Ovett Nwosimiri has a PhD in Philosophy. His research areas are in philosophy and ethics; particularly African philosophy, African epistemology, applied ethics, and philosophy of race. He has an interest in other philosophical areas and interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between philosophy and technology (AI). He is a Research Associate at the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg.
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We are very pleased to welcome our new tutors onboard and wish them all the best.
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