I read History at Newnham 1993-1996, then worked in the House of Commons for 3 years as Parliamentary Assistant to an MP and junior Minister; latterly combined this with an MA in the History of Gender at Royal Holloway, where my dissertation focused on women in local government in the 1930s.   Returned to Newnham in 2001-2 for teacher training, then taught history and politics in state schools, including 10 years at a sixth form college; held various roles including HoD, IB Diploma Coordinator, Oxbridge Coordinator.  Along the way had a career break and moved to Australia where both my kids were born.   I’m now back in academia studying for another Masters (Politics and Contemporary History at KCL) and planning to do a PhD, which means I’ll probably be at university at the same time as my teenagers!    

Happy to chat about working in education and the public sector, being a mature postgrad and mid-life career changes.