UCL Arena course tutor (Arena 1, Arena 2)

Organiser of UCL Teaching and Learning conference 2016 after also doing the conference in 2015

Overseer of UCL Provost's Teaching Awards (2015-2017)

Collation of archives from the Evidence, Inference and Enquiry Programme

Still waiting for UCL to get back to me about the archived...

This will be fun. Just setting up the email list...

2018 June 'Intersectionality, Research-based Education, and Assessment: A Pan-Curricular Threshold Concept', 7th Biennial Threshold Concepts conference, Miami University, Oxford Ohio

2018 'Disabling Grief', Ableism in Academia, UCL Institute of Education (livestream of day)

2017 December 'The Necessary Narcissism of The Academic Disciplines',

Conference on Narcissism, Institute of Advanced Study, UCL

2016 July ‘Mary Douglas’s Cultural Theory: Learning and the Ends of Inquiry’, Improving University Teaching | Conference Program

2016 June 'Thresholding Ancient Religion': a trifold approach, 6th Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference, Dalhousie University

2004 Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (Cambridge University Press)

2018 (eds Davies & Pachlern) Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Perspectives from UCL (open access pdf), UCL IOE Press

2019 'Whose Dream Is It Anyway? Navigating the Significance of Dreams in the Ancient World' in Ancient Divination and Experience (ed Lindsay Driediger-Murphy and Esther Eidinow, Oxford University Press)

2019 'The Value(s) of Belief: Ancient Religion, Cognitive Science and Interdisciplinarity' in Theorizing "Religion" in Antiquity (ed Nickolas P. Roubekas), Equinox Press)

2018 'Threshold Concepts as Pathways Through Ancient Religion: Curriculum as Initiation', Threshold Concepts on the Edge (ed. Land et al)

2016 'Threshold Guardians': Threshold Concepts as Guardians of the Discipline: chapter in Land, R., Meyer J.H.F. and Flanagan, M.T, (Eds) Threshold Concepts in Practice. Rotterdam, Taipei & Boston: Sense Publishers, 121-134

2015 Two entries (Livy, Tacitus) in Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions

2012-? 'Discipline and Belief' in a collected volume for CUP that has not so far appeared, but I won't embarrass the overworked editor here...

2011 'Believing the Evidence' in Evidence, Inference and Enquiry, (Proceedings of the British Academy 171, eds. Dawid, Twining, Vasilaki, Oxford University Press), 395-434

2011 'Disciplining the Disciplines' in Evidence, Inference and Enquiry, (Proceedings of the British Academy 171, eds. Dawid, Twining, Vasilaki, Oxford University Press), 37-72

2009 'Religion in Ancient Historiography', in the Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians (ed. Dr Andrew Feldherr), 166-180

2009 'The messiness of academics 'speaking across the disciplines'' in Collaborative Working in Higher Education: The Social Academy (eds. L. Walsh and P. Kahn, Routledge), 111-118

I have undertaken anonymous peer review in higher education for monographs, journals, conference submissions and national grant councils.

2015 September 'Threshold Concepts and Teaching Ancient Religion' Teaching and Learning Ancient Religion Network, Senate House (London)

2007-Present: Senior Teaching Fellow, CALT, UCL

Leverhulme & ESRC-funded Interdisciplinary Programme on Evidence, Inference and Enquiry at UCL (History & Interdisciplinary Projects)

British Academy PhD Scholarship 1994-7

British Academy MA Scholarship 1992-3

Institutional

Interim Director UCL Arena, 2017-

Organiser UCL Teaching and Learning Conference 2016 and 2015

and of UCL Provost's Teaching Awards, 2015-

Departmental

2010-present Chair, Combined Postgraduate Board of Examiners (deputy 2007-10)

2008-present MA Education Programme Leader (also with responsibility for MA Academic Practice, Adult Learning and Professional Development; deputy 2007)

2008-13 Departmental Graduate Tutor

National

2013- Co-convenor Society for Research into Higher Education Academic Practice Network

External examiner

2015- Bath University: Bath Course in Enhancing Academic Practice

2008-12 Glasgow University's School of Interdisciplinary Studies MA Liberal Arts

2010-2012 Text and Communication (year 1)

2008-2012 Creative Enquiry Project (year 4)

Rapporteur

I have served as a rapporteur for the ESRC for a project on Technology-enhanced interdisciplinary learning.

National Rep

As of 2012, I am the National Representative for UALL - The Universities Association for Lifelong Learning in Higher Education at the European Association for Lifelong Learning (EUCEN)

European

I was a partner on the IMPLEMENT (2010-2012) for UCL, which focuses on embedding lifelong learning in universities.

PhD

second supervisor Adrian Chapman 'The Mutual Audience: A New Model of Audience in Student Writing at University' (2013)

external examiner for Robert Blake: Revisiting the writing process in the digital age: the writing practices and processes of science and technology undergraduates at Lancaster University

60 credits MA Dissertations

Adult Learning & Professional Development

Education

Titles include:

The Impact of Students' Learning Styles on Learning Outcomes and Student Satisfaction in Traditional and Blended Learning

District Nurse Education: a study to explore options to provide the skills, knowledge and competence required

The Establishment and Use of Significant Event Analysis (SEA) for General Practitioners

Can Critical Thinking Skills Be Taught and Assessed? An Exploratory Investigation into a Critical Thinking Training Programme

30 credits M-level

Higher Education and Academic Identity aimed at facilitating established and senior lecturers' explorations of interdisciplinarity and academic identity.

Practical Learning Environments an exploration (despite the title) of virtual and cultural environments as a locus for teaching.

Exploring Learning and Higher Education (as course tutor) – aimed at probationary lecturers in HE, taking a reflexive approach to the nature of teaching to assist participants to develop their approach to teaching their discipline.

15 credits M-level

Investigating Research is a 'transferable skills' module offered to MRes students across UCL across more than ten disciplines. It draws heavily on history of science and medicine. The course has participants reflect on the role of research within society (eg engagement with the public and other stakeholders, ethics and research, actor-network theory, policy issues, interdisciplinarity and trans-institutional working).

Policy and Perspectives in Adult Education the long view on adult education: grounded in historical surveys, participants nominate an area of relevance and interest for their essays.

Quality, Consistency and Cost-Effectiveness explores the understanding and deployment of elegant curriculum design with a deliberate focus on maintaining standards within constraints, drawing on a variety of discourses (particularly ethics and professionalism).

Researching Practice where participants undertake an iterative research project into their practice.

Reflective Practice: Theory and Practice exploring and cultivating the reflexive (habitually reflective) practitioner.

Directed Reading (as supervisor) involved 'distance' supervision of literature review on a negotiated topic.

Programme Leadership

As course director 2008-2014, I oversaw all aspects of enrolment, registration and pastoral care including designing progression frameworks and co-ordinated dissertation supervision.

Non-credit bearing teaching

PGTA Orientation

From 2013 I have repeatedly presented our Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education to PGTAs in the school of BEAMS and set up the companion Moodle site.

2007-12 Interdisciplinary Studies of Evidence is a non credit-bearing UCL Graduate School course which I organise and have taught on for several years. Participants are introduced to essential methodologies and approaches to evidence from a wide range of disciplines (Anthropology, Economics, Statistics, Astronomy, Fine Art, Law, Archaeology and History were offered recently).

I generally offer the opening session on Disciplinarity and a closing one on Interdisciplinarity to link the different fields presented, as well as offering the History session myself. The last is built around the ancient world and the variety of approaches to evidence in Roman literature, religion and medicine.

Undergraduate

2012- Postmodernism, Genre and Discipline as part of UCL BASc foundation year

2006-7 BA interdisciplinary dissertation joint supervision in UCL (Anthropology), 'Evidence and Medical Concepts' for Human Sciences Seminar Project (ancient and modern medicine)

2000 & 2001 UCL (History) Religious Conversion in Late Antiquity

2000-01 Birkbeck Beginners' Greek

2000-01 UCL (History) The Romans and Their Past

2000 UCL (Greek & Latin) Latin Unseens

1999-00 Birkbeck Roman Religion

1998-00 City Literary Institute (for Birkbeck) Beginners' Latin

1999 Bristol University Literary Sources for Greek and Roman History (with Mr E. McQueen)

1997-99 UCL (Greek & Latin) Beginners' Greek

1998 Exeter University Latin Literature and Texts (Tacitus Annals 4)

1998-00 Birkbeck Study Skills

1998 Birkbeck Augustan Rome (with Dr Emmanuele Curti)

1997-98 Birkbeck Latin Literature – Tacitus Annals 4 & 14

1996 Birkbeck Other People in Greek & Roman Thought (with Dr E. Curti)

1996-00 Summer School in Classics (KCL/UCL; Latin and Greek, all levels)

1995-97 PG Teaching Assistant for UCL (History):

Reading Historians & Concepts and Categories;

The Roman Empire from Augustus to Theodosius

1995-2000 A level marker for JACT Classical Civilisations

Chair/Organiser

2013- Co-founder of Teaching and Learning Ancient Religion

2006-10 Debates in Higher Education

2006 Dreams in History Study Circlewithin Evidence Inference and Enquiry and in partnership withWellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine (8 presentations)

2004-5 Prediction Study Circle, within Evidence Inference and Enquiry

1996-7 Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar, ‎Institute of Classical Studies

Individual Talks

2014 May 'Threshold Concepts as Guardians of the Disciplines' UCL Teaching and Learning Exchange

2014 April 'Teaching and Learning Ancient Religion roundtable' (with Esther Eidinow and Susan Deacy) Classical Association 2014

2012 June 'Locked Doors: Threshold Concepts as Guardians of the Disciplines' Biennial Thresholds Conference, NAIRTL, Trinity College Dublin

2012 May Workshop on Curriculum in Partnership for IMPLEMENT project, University of Graz, Austra

2012 Mar 'IMPLEMENT/EUCEN project – making lifelong learning a reality', UALL National Conference 2012, Cambridge

2010 Nov 'Inferring the obvious: belief and other unrepresentables', Corpus Christi Classical Seminar, Oxford

2010 Apr '"Living on the ceiling": how and why interdisciplinarity turns everything upside down', Society for Research into Higher Education Academic Practice Network on The challenges of collaborative work in the academy

2010 July 'Professional Doctorates: a symposium' (with Sue Cross) Teaching and Learning Conference, UCL

2008 Oct "'Gloves off'': ''religion'', ''belief'' and discourse – a polemic on deprecating Cicero's De Diuinatione', St Andrews Research Seminar

2008 July 'Thinking Inside the Box: Disciplinarity, culture, -isms, problems/solutions and Education', Critical Realism and Education, Institute of Education

2008 Apr 'Interdisciplinarity & Teaching: After the Leverhulme Evidence Project', Teaching and Learning Conference, UCL

2007 May 'Believing in Ancient Rome', Symposium on ancient religion, St Paul's Cathedral study group

2007 Dec 'Evidence: a Case Study of Interdisciplinarity', Evidence Satellite Conference', UCL

2007 Dec 'Foucault's Tourist: Interdisciplinarity', Enquiry, Evidence and Facts: An Interdisciplinary Conference, British Academy

2007 Dec '''Not like Us"; the real problem with old alterity', Evidence Satellite Conference', UCL

2006 May 'Travelling Prejudice: ''Belief'' and Religion'', LSE Interdisciplinary Programme How Well Do Facts Travel?

2006 July 'Postmodernism: an Introduction', Debates in Higher Education (CALT, UCL)

2006 Feb 'Belief, Dreams and Managing Significance', Colloquium on Roman Religion, Erfurt (Germany)

2005 June 'The Failure of Knowledge: The Place of Ignorance (an Anthropological Perspective)', Evidence Programme, UCL

2005 Dec 'How to use a wiki ', UCL (general audience)

2004 Oct 'The Trouble With Prediction', Evidence Programme, UCL

2004 Nov 'Interdisciplinarity' (with Stephen Rowland), Evidence Programme, UCL

2004 June 'The Risks the Romans Ran', Provost's Dinner, UCL

2004 Jan 'Causation in Ancient Roman Religion/Medicine'

2003 Oct ''Evidence and Context'' Colloquium on Transitions, UCL Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies

2003 Mar 'Medicine and Magic in the Roman Empire: the Evidence of Galen', Classical Association, Warwick

2003 Feb 'Making Evidence out of Data in the Ancient World: Proving the Rôle of the Gods Beyond Doubt', Evidence Programme, UCL

2002 Nov 'Whose Dream is it Anyway? (part II)', University of Reading Seminar

2002 Dec 'Whose Dream is it Anyway? (part III)', The Dream and the Sciences of the Human, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL/Warburg Institute

2001 Mar 'Why One Should Not Read Livy', London Association of Classical Teachers (A level audience)

1999 May 'Suicide in Livy and Tacitus', UCL Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Suicide

1998 Nov 'Ammianus Marcellinus and the End of Expiation' (Institute of Classical Studies PG Seminar)

1998 Mar 'The Historian and the Incredible: Livy and Tacitus on Religious Crisis', European Social Science and History Conference, Amsterdam

1997 Nov 'multa alia ludibria nuntiata : did Livy believe in prodigies?' (Institute of Classical Studies PG Seminar)

1997 Jan 'Religious Codes in Roman Annalistic History' (Oxford Classics PG Series)

1997 Feb 'The Gods of War: or why the Romans were always right' (Oxford/London PG Colloquium, Institute of Classical Studies)

1996 Oct 'Talking about the Gods of the Past: the Case of Tacitus' (Institute of Classical Studies Ancient History Seminars)

1996 Nov 'The Religious Experience of (Some) Ancient Peoples' (Institute of Classical Studies PG Seminar)

1996 Mar 'Reasons to be Cheerful: Tacitus on the gods', Loxbridge, London

1995 Oct 'Orthodox Miracles: the Appropriation of Religious Charisma in Tacitus' Histories ', (South of England & Wales Postgraduate Series): also presented later at Institute of Classical Studies PG Seminar

1993 Nov 'Underground ''christians'' in Pagan Rome: Analysing the Underground Basilica of the Porta Maggiora' (Institute of Classical Studies PG Seminar)

G. Forsythe (2010) Time in Roman religion: one thousand years of religious history, (Routledge studies in ancient history; 4.) Journal of Roman Studies forthcoming

M. Lipka (2009) Roman Gods: A Conceptual Approach (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 167). Leiden/Boston: Brill, Journal of Roman Studies 101 (2011), 257-8

J. Scheid (2005) 'Quand faire, c'est croire. Les rites sacrificiels des romains', (Paris), Classical Review (2008), 58

Green C.M.C. Roman Religion and the cult of Diana at Aricia (2007) and C.E. Schultz, and Paul B. Harvey jr (2007) Religion in Republican Italy (CUP), Journal of Roman Studies 99, (2009), 245-7

M.-L. Haack Les Haruspices dans le monde romain (Pessac, 2003), Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007), 283-4

B. Näf (2004) Traum und Traumdeutung im Altertum (Darmstadt), Classical Review

G. Hart (2000) Asclepius, the god of medicine, (London), Medical History 47 (3) (July 2003)

I. Gradel (2002) Emperor Worship and Roman Religion (Oxford), JACT Review 33 (Summer 2003)

R. Valantasis (ed.) (2000) Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice (Oxford), Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003)

H.-F. Mueller (2002) Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus (Routledge), Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003)

H. W. Benario (ed. & tr.) (1999) Tacitus' 'Germany' (Warminster) & J. B. Rives (ed. & tr.) (1999) Tacitus' Germania (Oxford), Phoenix 2001.4

J. A. North (2000) Roman Religion (Oxford: Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 30), JACT Review 30 (Autumn 2001)

E. Craik (2000) Hippocrates: Places in Man (Oxford), JACT Review 30 (Autumn 2001)

T. E. H. Harrison (2000) Divinity and History: the Religion of Herodotus (Oxford), JACT Review 30 (Autumn 2001)

J. Gould (2001) Myth, Ritual Memory, and Exchange: Essays in Greek Literature and Culture (Oxford), JACT Review 30 (Autumn 2001)

K. Dowden (2000) European Paganism: the Realities of Cult from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (London & NY), JACT Review 30 (Autumn 2001)

G. E. R. Lloyd (1999) Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece (Bristol: reissue of 1983 edition by Cambridge University Press), JACT Review 29 (Summer 2001)

J. F. Healy (1999) Pliny The Elder on Science and Technology (Oxford), JACT Review 29 (Summer 2001)

M. Edwards, M. Goodman & S. Price (eds) (1999) Apologetics in the Roman Empire (Oxford), BMCR 00.07.07

R. Ash (1999) Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus' Histories (London), BMCR 00.05.21

V. Rosenberger (1998) Gezähmte Götter: Das Prodigienwesen der römischen Republik (Stuttgart 1998), Journal of Roman Studies 90 (2000)

D. Felton (1999) Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity (Austin, Texas), Journal of Roman Studies 90 (2000)

N. Morley (1999) Writing Ancient History (London), JACT Review 27 (Summer 2000)

M. Grant (1999) The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire (London & New York), JACT Review 27 (Summer 2000)

R. Miles (1999) Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity (London & New York), JACT Review 27 (Summer 2000);

B. Levick (1999) Vespasian (London & New York), JACT Review 27 (Summer 2000)

R. Mellor (1999) The Roman Historians (London & New York), BMCR 99.6.24

A. J. Woodman (1998) Tacitus Reviewed (Oxford), BMCR 99.7.22