My Story

I am a cognitive scientist, education thought leader and prolific author interested in expanding human intelligence through research, writing and education.

 

I have spent most of my working life based in a variety of UK universities including Oxford, Bristol, King’s College London and Winchester. But increasingly my work has taken a more practical turn, and I have been involved with a wide range of organisations where a better understanding of human intelligence is needed. For example, I have been:

 

• A consultant on education to the Royal Albert Hall

• Workshop leader for Premier League Youth Football Coaches

• Lecturer at the Siobhan Davies Dance School and the London College of Fashion

• Inaugural lecturer at Her Majesty's Treasury Learning Centre

• Meditation teacher at Atsitsa holiday centre on the Greek island of Skyros (where I met my wife Judith)

• Consultant to the Centre for Contemplative Education research project on mindfulness in European schools (under the auspices of HH The Dalai Lama)

• Guest lecturer at the Harvard Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA)

• On-going consultant to the South Australian Department of Education and Child Development

• Regular keynote speaker since 2000 at the global International Conferences on Thinking

• Consultant to the UK Ideas Foundation

• Speaker at the Edinburgh International Summit on Culture (2022)

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​For more about my work on learning to learn in schools, see the Books page.