About
Current Expertise:
Specialising in the psychology and narratology of individual difference and group dynamics, otherness, disability, and emotional intelligence (EI), 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 encompassing modern analytical approaches and Enlightenment philosophies while stretching to ancient histories to expand on multi-paradigms of communicative behaviours and artefacts.
Chief Intellectual-Practice 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 one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK contributing to educational improvement at system level, utilising my expertise in psychology and education to support professional learners. Prior to this, for nearly 2 decades, I worked across educational settings, delivering operationally, strategically, and scientifically.
Core Academic Interests and Experiences:
My scholarly interests are expansive and closely interrelated, comprising the neuroscience of learning, psychology of classical narratology, aesthetic performance, nonlinear performative reflexivity, East-West philosophies inc. ancient Mesopotamian and Persian philosophies vs postcolonial and modern Orientalism as well as continental philosophies (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 in aesthetics, psychology, and narratology. I have 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). My work has examined women’s health and performance (both narrative and behavioural), 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 performance and aesthetics.
Operational Domain:
Having collaborated with lifelong learning, NHS, & 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 dynamics, modularization, and programme assessment, benchmarking, impact, & CPD provisioning in multidisciplinary projects and programmes, expanding extra-curricular paradigms. I also am accredited for personality, EI, and team assessment, having also been trained for learner assessment and trait methodologies. My current system-level teaching, research, and training encompass design, ops, and delivery across intersections of individuality, teams, management and leadership psychology.