Tristram Hooley

Who are you?

Tristram Hooley

What is your job title?

Postgraduate Training Co-ordinator

Where are you based?

College House, University of Leicester

Describe your role in the project

My role in the project has been to help think about how we can succesfully create a useful research training resource. I also have some experience with developing e-learning resources so I've also been able to offer somewhere for Rob to bounce some of the more technical ideas around.

Tell us a little about your non-work life

I live in Leicester around 5 minutes from the University with my partner, daughter and two cats. I've remained in Leicester for the past 12 years since I arrived here as a wide-eyed undergraduate in the English Department. Outside of work I divide my time between listening to blues records, stripping wallpaper and buying things I don't need on E-Bay.

What is/are your favourite book(s) and why?

Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). It is the kind of book that academics should be writing. A brilliant and creative piece of social science research that has the capacity to revolutionise the way you think about politics and your own personal life. Facts like "joining one group cuts in half your odds of dying next year" spill forth from Putnam at an astounding rate.

What is/are your favourite film(s) and why?

Mystery Train - a Japanese couple wander around Memphis acting cool and meeting all sorts of weirdos including a ghostly Elvis.

What is/are your favourite web link(s) and why?

My current favourite must be the World Livestock Auctioneer Past Champions page (http://www.lmaweb.com/wlacpast.html). Turn your speakers up loud and marvel that no one has released any of these as a novelty record yet.

Please provide a brief biography

Born in the seventies in suburbia. Arrived in Leicester in 1992 to study English literature. This qualified me to work in a call centre when I graduated. Eventual escape from the call centre was followed by work as a technical copywriter for IT and communications companies. I then returned to write a PhD on utopian and dystopian fiction. Towards the end of my PhD I supported myself through a mixture of teaching, educational web design and contract research work. These eventually coalesced into a job with the East Midlands Oral History Archive where I worked on developing a variety of teaching and learning resources (mainly but not exclusively online) and supporting the cataloguing and outreach work of the archive. I then moved to work for the University of Leicester's Teaching and Learning Unit as an educational web developer. I now work providing research and transferable skills training for PhD students as Leicester's Postgraduate Training Co-ordinator.

 

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