Independent researcher and writer
How we learn, and how we stay well
I work across two fields that are rarely held together: the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, and the study of learning and wellbeing under pressure. One question runs through both.
Two fields, one question
The question is this: the cognitive architectures by which intellectual life is built, defended, and sustained. It runs through three strands of work.
- Renaissance intellectual history. Leonardo's manuscripts, the place of the esoteric and the secret, and the ordering of knowledge in a world under strain.
- Wellbeing and reflective practice in education. Teacher burnout, self-care, and the conditions under which students and teachers flourish.
- The engineering of distance and adult formation. How learning is designed and sustained at a distance, across the move from school to higher education and into work.
Currently
- Studying for a Master in the Sciences of Education and Formation at the Université de Caen Normandie, by distance.
- Appointed examiner for the International Baccalaureate, in MYP and DP Integrated Humanities.
- Preparing essays and a podcast, published under the name Digited Atelier.
Writing
Essays and a podcast are in preparation, drawing this research into a more accessible register: on study and on formation, on wellbeing and on pressure, and on the long history of how people have ordered their minds against a disordered world.
Published academic papers, in English and in French, are on Academia.edu.
In contact
Open to scholarly exchange in English, French, and Italian.