About
Core Expertise:
Specialising in the psychology and narratology of individual difference and group dynamics, otherness, disability, and emotional intelligence, I read individual and group behaviour with demonstrative multimodality and cross-field representations. My current interest lies in the psychology of human performance and grouping dynamics, peer and leadership application, and impact on social construction discourses. My specialism spans the long history of narratology and performance psychology. I am a polyglot and cross-disciplinary scholar, currently employed in one of the acute Trusts in the UK, utilising my expertise in psychology and education to support professional learners. In the past 20 years, I have delivered educational outcomes; operationally, strategically, and scientifically, bringing together teaching, research, mentorship, design, and assessment devised to foster learner success.
Academic Interests:
My scholarly interests are expansive, comprising the neuroscience of learning, psychology of classical narratology, psychology of ancient Eastern civilizations of the 4th millennium BCE, the Uruk Period onwards, aesthetic performance, nonlinear performative reflexivity, East-West philosophies inc. performance in ancient Mesopotamian and Persian domains influencing continental philosophies (particularly phenomenology in light of accumulated Hellenistic and classical discrepancies). My base SME lies in the narrative-cognitive spectrum with orientation on the psychology and history of otherness, performance, difference, disability, SEND methodologies, and aesthetic pedagogy. My work has examined women’s health, the psychology of pain, and medical histories. Women’s literature of Great Britain and Iran (17th Century onwards) has constituted my core intense reading over the last 30 years. I am passionate about intellectual underpinnings and the influence of Eastern narratologies and historiographies stretching from Central, North, and West Asia to North Africa, primarily that of ancient Achaemenid Persia (c. 550–330 BC) to modern Iran, focusing on the psychology of performance and aesthetics. My most recent reading also tends to the psychology of narrative transitioning through Egypt’s Old to the New Kingdom.
Research & Operational Experience:
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 gradually forthcoming, including a peer-reviewed book series (accepted & contracted 2013-2021 and in waiting post-pandemic for publication).
During the past 20 years, my wider research and operational experience comprise collaboration with lifelong learning, professional, & HE colleagues. I am experienced in diverse ops input for complex and multilevel programme design, ops management, risk assessment, quality improvement, & delivery, including multilevel training methodologies where I have been curriculum lead for design and delivery of programmes/courses.
I am interested in learner engagement outcomes for impact, programme design and modularization, assessment, benchmarking, and CPD provisioning in multidisciplinary curricular paradigms. I also am accredited for personality, EI, and team assessment, having also been trained for learner assessment and trait methodologies.