Dr Peter Swallow
Peter is webmaster for the Advocating Classics Education and has been a member of the team since 2017. He is currently a Research Fellow working on the popular reception of Aristotle’s natural science, especially zoology and gynaecology, on the Leverhulme-funded 'Aristotle Beyond the Academy' research project. Previously, he held a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, and taught at both KCL and Goldsmiths. He has also taught at Notting Hill and Ealing High School. Peter sits on the Classical Association’s Teaching Board as a HE Rep, sharing his skills and expertise to improve Classics education in schools.
Marcus Bell
Marcus was a Public Impact Researcher for the ACE project. They completed their BA and MA at King’s College London focusing on 20th Century receptions of ancient dance and is currently a DPhil candidate at Oxford. Marcus is dedicated to outreach and activism inside and out of the classroom. Their current research examines chorality at the turn of the 21st century by considering the work of dance practitioners, performance artists and activists. With ACE, they travelled across the country attending events with each partner university and collated and analysed the feedback from those events to inform a larger understanding of the impact this project has created.
Bella Watts
Bella is a current undergraduate student at Barnard College in New York majoring in Ancient Studies. She is particularly interested in the study of gender and sexuality in the ancient world; having previously studied Latin and Greek at school she has been hugely enjoying the opportunity to broaden her study to include ancient history and culture.
Her other voluntary work includes being a student volunteer for a university conference dedicated to inclusive Classics pedagogy and working with Oxfordshire Kindness Wave and Oxford Mutual Aid. She is very excited to be joining ACE’s mission to make the study of Classical subjects more accessible and inclusive.
Nimisha Patel
Nimi completed her PhD exploring the presence of Classics material in Post-Independence Indian school textbooks. Nimi is dedicated to changing education to accommodate a wider demographic of students who can often be marginalised in main-stream education. As well as working with education charities in Berkshire to help increase inclusivity within schools, Nimi has volunteered with ACE as she believes that classics offers students the opportunity to develop skills in synthesising large quantities of multi-disciplinary data. This is a skill which she thinks is beneficial and unfortunately slowly fading in an education system focused on creating ‘worker bees’.
Kitty Cooke
Kitty Cooke was an Ancient World student at UCL. She attended the state-sector Parrs Wood High School in Manchester and is passionate about expanding the teaching of classics to all. She also volunteers at the British Museum in the department of Coins and Medals.
Dr Caroline Latham
Caroline studied English at Queen Mary College London, taught drama in London state schools for many years, took Classical Civilisation A Level, learned Greek, enrolled at the OU, and eventually got her PhD at King’s College London for an excellent doctorate on translations of Greek drama for the professional stage. Caroline conducted archival research for the project, delving into old textbooks and exam papers for all exam boards since Classical Civilisation and Ancient History qualifications were first introduced!
