Karen Parham

For the past 22 years, I have been teaching in schools, colleges and tutoring privately. My teaching career started in The Netherlands where I taught Philosophy and English as a Second Language at a Montessori secondary school. When I returned to the UK, I taught Philosophy and Ethics for a year in a school in Leicestershire and then went on to teach A-level Philosophy, Religious Studies, Critical Thinking, General Studies and Media Studies at various colleges. I have also been an examiner for 16 years for IB Philosophy and AQA Philosophy and am currently a Senior Examiner for AQA Philosophy ( 7 years). As a Senior Examiner I lead a team of examiners, giving them feedback on their marking, mark exam papers and review them. In addition, I am also an examiner for AQA A-level RS (3 years) and an examiner for OCR (2 years). I am an author of various articles, books and exam guides for Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Having done various degrees in Philosophy, including a Bachelors equivalent, a Masters in European Philosophy and PhD in Medieval Philosophy/Philosophy of Religion/Philosophy of Biology, I have extensive experience in writing academically. I have tutored many undergraduates and postgraduates studying Philosophy with great success, helping them with research papers, assignments and preparing for exams. Undergraduates are often overwhelmed in their first year with where to start, what to do and how to write. I can help in all these areas. I am currently also supervising a PhD student based at the Open University in The Netherlands.

As I am bi-lingual in Dutch and English, I also teach Dutch at any level. Originally I taught Dutch at a language school in Birmingham but now teach it privately.