TEACHING

Over the course of my career I have worked with students from a range of cultures, backgrounds, religions and orientations. My teaching ethos is encompassed in three tenets:
• First, everyone deserves the opportunity to learn and create, and to do so in a safe and supportive environment.
• Second, as everyone learns in different ways, being open to and engaging with different learning methods benefits everyone involved.
• Third, inspiration can be found in a variety of different places. Making it important to study as broad a range of sources as possible, taking the time to understand theatre’s history and contexts – particularly in relation to cultural performance forms.

I currently hold the position of Associate Lecture in Theatre and Performance at the University of Lincoln. In this role I have helped to decolonise and diversify curricula and have worked on multiple modules across two schools (Theatre and History). In the 5 years I have been teaching at the University of Lincoln I have worked on several modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and have recently supervised an MRes dissertation to completion. During the pandemic I taught using a range of digital software tools and am confident in my ability to teach both through this medium and face-to-face.

Prior to my time at the University of Lincoln, I was the Senior Lecturer in Scenic Design and the Head of the Technical Theatre Department at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) where I redesigned modules, lectured, led seminars, and provided pastoral support. In this position I worked with theatre students, enabling their creativity and supporting them throughout their project creation and logistics planning. A major part of my sessions is the development of the thought processes necessary to create a successful theatre performance and/or research project. I have also acted as an external examiner at Trench Town Polytechnic and contributed the course accreditation. Recently I won discretionary travel funding to present at the Prague Quadrennial conference regarding my own pedagogic practices while teaching in Jamaica. With a talk entitled: Creating opportunities for imagination and creativity when teaching theatre design, I extolled the benefits of my student led teaching practices in enabling students to make personal, experimental and academically sound performances for assessment.

My international experience has allowed me to accumulate a wide range of skills and develop a familiarity with a breadth of roles and responsibilities. It has also helped me realise my passion for teaching, which intend to continue for years to come.