Learning

Teaching is a form of worldbuilding. A seminar or lecture creates a temporary world with its own questions, tensions and possibilities. Students should be able to enter that world, test its assumptions and leave seeing the problem differently.

I have taught political geography, geopolitics, qualitative methods and outer-space studies across undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral, school and public-engagement settings.

Narrative-led teaching

My lectures and seminars begin with a story, image, disagreement or practical problem. Theory and evidence are introduced in sequence before the session returns to its opening question.

That return gives the class coherence. It also lets students recognise how their understanding has changed and how an argument has been constructed.

Making ideas tangible

I use scenarios, simulations and worldbuilding when discussion alone is not enough.

Students have negotiated political crises, debated lunar mining, questioned whether outer space can be treated as a global commons and designed settlements on the Moon. An apparently technical habitat exercise quickly becomes a discussion about authority, inequality, care, culture and what turns a structure into a home.

Creative interpretation

I often ask students to make something: a narrative, visual response, scenario, map, video or shared interpretation. Creative work reveals how students understand a problem and requires them to make decisions about evidence, emphasis and audience.

Participation by design

Participation requires more than asking whether anyone has a comment. I use staged questions, small-group work, roles, images, objects and collaborative interpretation to create different ways into a discussion.

Through The Brilliant Club, I designed a ten-week human geography course for students underrepresented in higher education. Students explored home, identity, environment and outer space through interactive and creative work.

Experience

At UCL, I taught across:

Geopolitics · Environmental Geopolitics · Qualitative Methods · Space and Society · Global Events · Geography, Culture and Materiality · Human Geography Field Class · Geography in the Field

I have also designed learning for doctoral researchers, widening-participation cohorts, secondary-school students and public audiences.