Qualifications and Accreditation

• First Class BA, MPhil., PhD, all University of Birmingham

• Qualified Teaching Status (King Edward's Consortium)

• Qualified Learning Mentor (King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls)

• Edexcel IGCSE English Language Paper 1 examiner (2016, 2018, 2022)

• Study Coach for 10X Study Academy, Singapore (2023)

• CIE English Literature A-Level examiner (2023)

• OCR English Literature A-Level examiner Paper 1 (2024)

I am passionate about my subject and knew from a young age that I wanted to study it for as long as possible. After graduating with a First Class degree in English (in the top 10% of my cohort), I achieved a Masters in English Literature (focusing on Victorian through to Modernist Literature), before applying for and achieving a PhD in English Literature.

While studying for my PhD, I was given the opportunity to teach undergraduates, and it was this experience that inspired my ambition to become a secondary school teacher: I loved running the seminars and interacting with the students, and their positive feedback motivated me to make the move into teaching.

Immediately after completing my PhD, I initially worked as a Learning Mentor in the leading grammar school in Birmingham: King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls. I then trained at the King Edward’s School Consortium, one of the leading teacher training organisations in the country, before graduating as ‘outstanding’. My first full-time teaching position was at Oakham School (teaching Years 7-13, including GCSE, A-Level and IB), where I worked for 7 years.

More recently, I moved to Malvern and worked at the prestigious international boarding school, Malvern College (ages 13-18) before taking on a new Part-Time position at Malvern St. James, a leading independent boarding and day school for girls.