About
Current Expertise:
Specializing in the psychology of group dynamics and difference, otherness, and emotional intelligence, I currently work on individual and group narratology, and the psychology of leadership. This spans the long history of leadership and narratology i.e., ancient histories across multiparadigms and methodological applications onto modern practice.
Chief Intellectual Domains:
I am a polyglot and cross-disciplinary scholar, affiliate to the Institute of Population Health (Psychology), having previously worked with the School of English contributing to literary and social sciences at the University of Liverpool. I currently work with the National Health Service in one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK, where I contribute to educational improvement at system level, utilising my expertise in psychology and education to support professional learners. Prior to this, for 2 decades, I worked within national and international organisations, delivering operationally, strategically, and scientifically on the educational front.
Core Academic Interests and Experiences:
My scholarly interests are expansive, comprising the neuroscience of learning, psychology of classical narratology, aesthetic performance, nonlinear performative reflexivity, East-West philosophies (inc. ancient Mesopotamian and Persian philosophies vs modern Orientalism as well as continental particularly phenomenology in light of accumulated Hellenistic and Classical philosophies). My base SME lies in the narrative-cognitive spectrum with orientation on otherness, difference, disability, SEND methodologies, and education leadership & management. The othering process in its cross-cultural focalization is one of my main areas of expertise both in psychology and literary histories & aesthetics. In social sciences and humanities, I worked extensively on a series of international and interdisciplinary projects from 2012 to 2021 based at the University of Liverpool, of which a series of publications are forthcoming, including a peer-reviewed book series (accepted & contracted 2013-2021 and in waiting post-pandemic for publication). My work has examined women's health and other narratives, the psychology of pain, and medical histories of colonialism. I am passionate about research on the influence of Eastern narratologies and historiographies stretching from Central, North, and West Asia to North Africa, primarily that of ancient to modern Iran, Russia, Türkiye, Egypt, and Tunisia, focusing on the psychology of aesthetics.
Operational Domain:
Having collaborated with lifelong learning & HE colleagues, I offer diverse ops input for complex and multilevel programme design, ops management & delivery, including active multilevel training methodologies as curriculum lead for design and delivery of programmes/courses. I am interested in learner engagement, modularization, and programme assessment, benchmarking, impact, & CPD provisioning in multidisciplinary projects and programmes, expanding extra-curricular paradigms. I also am trained with personality and team assessment, having also been accredited for learner assessment methodlogies. I extend educational practice for hybrid learning and core multimodal adoption techniques. My current system-level teaching, research, and training span design, ops, and delivery across intersections of individuality, teams, management and leadership psychology in the national healthcare environment providing clinical and non-clinical staff with required M&L training.