Teaching

I love to teach and have taught courses to high school students, undergraduates, postgraduates, and professionals. Below are some of the courses I have designed and led, and details of my teaching experience. I will be adding more materials that I find helpful in the classroom.

I regularly do guest lectures at universities, and run bespoke training and workshops for policy-makers and organisations.

Teaching Experience

Course Leader and Lecturer

Senior Lecturer, ‘Australia’s National Security Environment - Case Studies’ (Strategic Empathy and the Indo-Pacific), Australian War College and Deakin University, 2024

Visiting Lecturer, ‘Emotions, Memory and Identity’, Co-Designed and Led with Elina Lange-Ionatamishvili, Sympodium Professional Course (Winter/Spring 2024)

Lecturer, ‘Emotions and Foreign Policy’, MA course, Jackson Institute, Yale University, (Spring 2020)

Module Designer, ‘Empathy and Emotions in Policy-Making’, Professional course, International School for Government, King’s College London, (Spring 2018 – Present)

Lecturer, Programme on Middle East Dialogue, Professional course on international affairs, emotions, strategy and conflict, ICSR, King’s College London, (Feb – Mar 2018)

University Teaching

Senior Teaching Assistant, ‘Global Politics’, Department of War Studies, King’s College London (2017-2018)

Teaching Assistant, ‘International Relations Theory’, Department of War Studies, KCL (2017-2018)

Teaching Assistant, ‘Statecraft, War and Diplomacy’, Department of War Studies, KCL (2015-2016)

Teaching Assistant, ‘World Politics since 1945’, Department of Political Economy, KCL (2013-2014)

Guest Lecturer

Guest Lecturer, Diplomacy and Statecraft, University of Southern Denmark, (Dec 2022)

Guest Lecturer, ‘Empathy and Emotions in Strategic Communications’, Dept of War Studies, King’s College London, (Nov 2016 - Dec 2021)

Guest Lecturer for Emma Sky, ‘Empathy in Grand Strategy’, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University (Oct 2019)

Lecturer, ‘Empathy and Emotions in Strategy’, Professional course for the Programme for Middle East Dialogue, ICSR, King’s College London, (Mar 2017)

Guest Teacher, ‘Brexit, Trump, and International Affairs’, taught ten classes at two bi-lingual high schools in Hellevoetsluis, Western Netherlands, (Jan 2017)

Guest Lecturer, ‘Career Paths in International Affairs’, Department of Political Economy, King’s College London (2013)

Outreach and Widening Participation

Tutor, Investigating the Iranian Nuclear Negotiations, K+ Spotlight, The Brilliant Club at King’s College London (May – Sept 2017)

Tutor, Investigating the Iranian Nuclear Negotiations, The Brilliant Club, (2013-2014)

Emotions and Foreign Policy

Emotions are integral to our understanding of human behavior and the world around us, yet they are often given insufficient attention within the study of international relations.
I designed and led this course at Yale University in 2020. Challenging the division of reason and emotion, students examined how emotions are critical elements, and valuable sources of information, in foreign policy alongside power, security, politics, and interests.
The course was interdisciplinary, drawing on research in international relations theory, politics, history, political psychology and philosophy.
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Empathy and Emotions in Policy-Making

This designed this online module in 2018 for the King’s International School for Government.
Taught by a lecturer at King’s College London, this course is for mid-career professionals, and examines how empathy is a valuable asset in the design and implementation of policy, and in creating policies that connect with, and respond to, diverse audiences.
It draws on an international and eclectic range of case studies, offers ideas and practical steps, and encourages practitioners to reflect on their unique experience and expertise in policy-making.

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