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Luke

My Passion & How I Inspire

To instil the thirst for knowledge, the desire for excellence, and the confidence and self belief to achieve the very best that you are capable of. Learning with me is never, ever boring. I make prose dance and literature sing. I pride myself on the ability to make antiquated and challenging texts relevant to the present day, exciting to engage with, and a joy study. I take my students above and beyond the syllabus to develop the skills and aptitudes that will help them develop as thinkers. My students do not learn by rote and repetition, they learn how to stand on their own two feet. It is a conviction proved by experience that students perform the best when they are interested by what they study, when they have a set of intellectual skills separate to the specific texts studied, and when they have the confidence to say what THEY think in the context of coursework or an examination. “My aim is not to spare you the trouble of thinking, but to spur you to some thoughts of your own”.

My Experience

5 years - Tutor, Lecturer, Ambassador - the Oxford University Access Programme

8 Years - Private tutor

2 years - Teacher of English

2 years - Pastoral Support Worker (SEN students)

2 Years - Tutor of Philosophy, English, Anthropology, at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

DPhil from Oxford University, Supervised by Dr David Mills (Education, Pedagogy and the Social Sciences, Oxford), Professor Ian Loader (Law, Criminology, Oxford), and examined by Professor Stephen Ball (Education, University College London), and Dr Ian Thompson (Education, Teaching of English, Oxford).

Subjects That I Teach

Crimonology
Anthropology
Anthropology - GCSE
Anthropology - Undergraduate
Anthropology - Postgraduate
Anthropology - Interview Preparation
Criminology
Criminology - GCSE
Criminology - Undergraduate
Criminology - Postgraduate
Criminology - Interview Preparation
English
English - GCSE
English - Undergraduate
English - Postgraduate
English - Interview Preparation
Essay Writing
Essay Writing - GCSE
Essay Writing - Undergraduate
Essay Writing - Postgraduate
Essay Writing - Interview Preparation
Philosophy
Philosophy - GCSE
Philosophy - Undergraduate
Philosophy - Postgraduate
Philosophy - Interview Preparation
Religious Studies
Religious Studies - GCSE
Religious Studies - Undergraduate
Religious Studies - Postgraduate
Religious Studies - Interview Preparation
Sociology
Sociology - GCSE
Sociology - Undergraduate
Sociology - Postgraduate
Sociology - Interview Preparation

My Qualifications

4 A*s & 7As GCSE

3 As at A Level

1st Class MA (Hons) (Edinburgh) with numerous academic prizes for the best performing student.

MSc with Distinction (Oxford) and the Routledge Prize for the best performance in the year.

DPhil (PhD) in progress (Oxford) with a competitively awarded 4 year scholarship from the Economic and Social Science Research Council.

My Reviews

“believe it or not you've got me very excited about studying” Current student.

With regards to a particularly iconoclast text I suggested to one of my students “Luke, the first couple of pages were so horrible I couldn’t bear it. I stuck to it though (thinking about your words of wisdom in my head) and am actually now hooked! It’s incredibly interesting and I have read a bit further than I should have”

My Video Introduction

Fun fact

I worked in collaboration with the Sutton Trust and Wellington College to help students from one of the worst schools in London apply for bursaries to top private schools. Four out of six of my students were successful at pursuing their dreams at the best schools in the country!

Traditional Subjects

Languages

Accounting

GCSE

Law

Creative

A-Level

Medical

Aptitude Tests

IB

University

Digital

Higher Learning