“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
Terry started in life as a scientist; a chemist with Rolls Royce, then a biochemist doing medical research in Bristol and Newcastle Universities.
He joined the University through Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design where he was Head of Applied Science and also served spells as Head of School. He gained the Dundee MBA with Distinction in 1994 and since then has taught management on our MA and MBA programmes and done consultancy and research for industry and the public services.
He now runs the University's Management and Professional training programmes. He enjoys the arts, entertaining and is learning Mandarin.
Before joining the Programme as a lecturer in October 2000, I spent five years at the University of St Andrews as a research fellow on an environmental history project and then with the Scottish Parliament Project. My teaching focuses on early modern Scotland in a British and European context. Next year I will be offering two Honours modules: 'Reading Seventeenth-Century Scotland' (which focuses on original sources); and I am planning a new Level 4 module on parliament in early modern Scotland.
I have just published a book on interaction between urban Scotland and parliament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I am also interested in the measurement and regulation of time and its impact on society. I could supervise postgraduate research degrees on most aspects of early modern Scottish history. Because my research interest is in Scotland's history, I can make frequent visits to archives and often use what I find there in my teaching. My work on early modern towns and parliament naturally feeds into the modules I teach, and ensures that new discoveries are always being integrated into the student experience.
My day job is Staff Development Manager for Tayside Police. I do occasional private training and development to avoid becoming too institutionalized in the Policing culture. I am a graduate of University of Dundee where I was meant to study English and Philosophy but spent more time in the student union. This resulted in being elected as a Sabbatical Senior Vice President.
I enjoyed studying in Dundee so much that I graduated in personnel management from Dundee College followed by a MSc in Human Resource Management at Abertay University. I specialize in the delivery of practical training programmes in subjects such as Presentation Skills and Effective Meetings and lecture in Human Resource Management. I am a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and occasionally write reviews for the CIPD magazine, Personal Management.
In my limited spare time I do pub quizzes in and around Fife.
Jim Stewart received his MA from Dundee University and his PhD from the University of Edinburgh. From 2005-2007 he was an AHRC Research Assistant working on the Cambridge University Press edition of Virginia Woolf. He has also been contracted as co-editor of Woolf's first novel The Voyage Out. His research interests relating to Woolf have comprised her use of the lyric verse of Andrew Marvell (1621-78), and her response to theatre and the drama. He reviews books on Woolf regularly for The Times Literary Supplement, and occasionally publishes poems. He has taught in the English department since the late 1980s.
Malcolm worked for over ten years as a management trainer and senior manager in major multinational corporations before moving into the University sector in 1990. He currently holds part-time lectureships in strategy and marketing with the University of Dundee and two Business Schools. He has a particular interest in the strategic management of professional practices and is co-director of an independent business consultancy firm which develops workshops and research projects for clients.
I completed my PhD at the University of Dundee in September 2008, writing on the contemporary French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou. Since then, I've been teaching at the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh. My academic interests focus on modern European philosophy, aesthetics and the history of philosophy (German Idealism, Phenomenology, Political Philosophy). Among my favourite philosophers are Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx, Sartre, Deleuze and Badiou.
I'm very interested in the potential for crossover work between philosophy and art, and I'm completely obsessed by modernist literature (Proust and Musil in particular), as well as more contemporary authors (Vonnegut, McCarthy, Perec, Celine). I'm also very keen to think through the implications of contemporary anthropology (Latour and Auge, for example) with respect to art and lived experience.
I am currently writing a PhD thesis on the Anxiety of Expression in 9/11 Fiction. My research interests include the relationship between word and image, different forms of expression and representation and the limitations of each, and 9/11 literature, comics, and film. Authors included in my research are Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, Ken Kalfus and Paul Auster, as well as comic artists such as Art Spiegelman and Will Eisner. I have taught both English and Film Studies at Dundee University for five years.
Ken Edward holds degrees in science, operational research and statistics, business administration and applied computing. His early career included management consultancy in London, operations analysis for British Aerospace and policy research in local government. From 1979 to 1993, Ken was employed in a variety of marketing, commercial and general management posts in the Scottish industrial textiles sector, working variously for the Low and Bonar Group, Bonar Textiles and the Shell subsidiary Don and Low. During this period Ken was heavily involved in new product development and market expansion programmes in Europe and America.
Appointed in 1991 as the industrial external examiner for the Diploma in Management Studies at Dundee Institute of Technology (The University of Abertay Dundee), Ken later joined Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology as a lecturer in business operations; subsequently moving to Dundee Institute of Technology where, as senior lecturer in management, he took on Course Leader responsibility for the BA(Hons) in Business Studies. In this capacity he focused on the development and delivery of modules that integrated academic theory and industrial practice. In 2005 Ken joined the Centre for Enterprise Management as Enterprise Facilitator concerned with the development of an undergraduate enterprise culture.
I am currently writing my PhD thesis on the work of the playwright Harold Pinter. My research interests are centred around exploring both literature and film from a psychoanalytical perspective, as I enjoy examining how writers like Pinter, or film makers such as Alfred Hitchcock, illustrate and develop in their works some of the key ideas that are associated with depth psychology. I have taught English for two years at Dundee and am now embarking on teaching Film Studies for the first time.
Having completed my undergraduate degree in American Studies at the University of Dundee in 2008, I have since gone on to complete an M.Litt in Early America (2009). In September 2009, I began my PhD research under the supervision of Dr Matthew C Ward, focussed on the evolution of leadership in Kentucky during the late eighteenth century. Since 2008, I have taught as a teaching assistant on the Level One History modules, Age of Revolution (2008-2010), and Twentieth Century Britain (2008-2010); Level Two History modules, Early Modern Europe (2009-2010), and The Rise of Atlantic Empires (2012-); and the Level Two American Studies modules, The Shaping of Early America to 1877 (2008), The Development of Modern America (2009), and America: Land of the Free? (2010-present). My teaching on America: Land of the Free?, was recognised with a teaching award in May 2012, when I received the ‘DUSA Student-Led Teaching Awards 2012: Most Inspirational Teaching from a Graduate Tutor’. This award was solely the result of nominations from undergraduate students.
I currently serve as one of the Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) postgraduate reps, and administer the group Facebook page. Over the course of my postgraduate career at Dundee I have presented papers at a number of conferences within the UK and internationally, and have received research fellowships from the Kentucky Historical Society and the Virginia Historical Society. In 2010, I received the University of Dundee AHRI Bursary for excellence in research. My article ‘Life in the Woods: The Influence of Hunting on Frontier Leadership in Revolutionary Kentucky’ appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of U.S. Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal.
I am currently the Programme Director of the BA Professional Development, in the School of Education, Social Work and Community Education. I have worked with the University of Dundee for five years, before that I lectured in Community Education at Northern College in Dundee for thirteen years. I particularly enjoy working with work-based, distance learning and part-time students. Before moving to Dundee, I worked with Highland Council as a Community Education Worker, which involved youth work, adult education and community development in rural Highland communities. My current research interests lie in professional learning and I have recently begun doctoral studies in this area.
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