English Tutor for All Abilities and Courses

I am qualified and experienced tutor and coach in a number of competencies. I recently completed a political science PhD at the Environment Centre at Lancaster University, a top ranking education institution for research in the UK. Before that I gained a distinction in a Masters of Research and International Politics at Bath University. I am a qualified Teaching Fellow at Lancaster, and I have designed and delivered undergrad seminars on a number of higher education modules: International Relations; ‘Geographies of Africa’; academic tutorials; a critical geography fieldtrip to New York; qualitative research methods; and global climate change politics. I offer tutorship in English, politics, human geography, political ecology, and philosophy / critical thinking at higher and further education level, secondary school level, or to the casual learner. I also have a number of years’ experience of teaching English as a foreign languages. I passed my CELTA certificate in 2015, gaining a Pass B mark. I spent the following years teaching English in Berlin, delivering tailored lessons to a variety of classes: kindergarten children, businesses, trade unions, and individual students. On returning to the UK I continued my teaching career, volunteering to deliver A1 and A2-level English classes to asylum-seekers and refugees under the local City of Sanctuary programme. I subsequently delivered a more formal Skills for Life language course with the company Al Hayat, delivering nine hours of teaching every week for three years to a cohort of 30 Syrian and MENA refugees. Language abilities in these classes ranged from illiterate in their Syrian mother-tongue to English A2 level. I also delivered Life In the UK training and lessons, enabling all 12 students to pass their exams and complete one more step to gaining their UK passport. I have continued to successfully deliver C1 Advanced exam (CAE), IELTS, and casual English language lessons to individual students with The Language Company in Lancaster.