Dr Jonathan Wolfe Leader MA, PhD, SFHEA
Senior Teaching Fellow
I am a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Academic Centre for International Students (ACIS), Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Currently, I am on part-time secondment with the Centre for Higher Education Practice (CHEP), Faculty of Social Sciences, where I am Director of Programmes. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
I was awarded my BA(Hons) in Philosophy by the University of Lancaster in 1982 after which I studied for my MA in Philosophy at the University of Warwick (1983). After moving to London, I worked for twelve years in the voluntary sector, initially with a charity for homeless adults and then as a senior residential social worker working with adults recovering from mental illness. During this period, I conducted part-time research at the LSE and completed my teacher training at Goldsmiths', University of London. I have held Senior Lectureships at the University of East London and the University of the Arts, London, where, until 2011 I was Course Leader for the Personal and Professional Development programme in the Faculty of Media. I was awarded my PhD from the University of Southampton in 2010 for my research on the German Jewish polemicist and political theorist, Hannah Arendt.
My pedagogical research interests revolve around contextual, cultural and epistemological aspects of criticality. I give lectures and presentations on both Arendt and the pedagogy of critical thinking. I have written reviews for Bloomsbury Publishing and Sage Publications and in 2020 was an editorial advisory panel member for Oxford University Press. Currently, I am preparing a book proposal on the life and work of Hannah Arendt.