 My teaching philosophy is very much about applied learning. I think having come from the world of business, the world of government, I'm very conscious of the fact that we're trying to prepare our students to enter that world, to become successful as professionals, to become future managers and leaders. The connection that he forms with his students, the emotional connection that he forms with students, the level of comfort, the frankness, the openness, that's one of his major strengths. He made us feel as if we're not just studying but developing ourselves. What I try to do is I try to take examples that students may be familiar with and then I essentially draw together as much information into a coherent and fairly tight case. He was very clever enough to put so much time and work each semester so that as we're working through, you know, just seminar activities, rather than repeat them each semester, you've got something that's in the news right now, so you're listening to it on your drive home, you're reading it in the newspapers, you're doing it in your class and so you come to the seminar already knowing a whole lot of information and so he's already sparked that curiosity and interest and made you feel confident in the discussions you're about to have. I try to keep them very engaging and I try to keep them as relevant as possible and up to date as possible because these are the issues that they will be exposed to through the popular media. Each of the students are involved because we'll talk through some of the major issues and the major concepts that he's teaching and I guess that means not only is the class more interesting and you actually want to go to class, I think his lectures were almost always basically full. I don't see this as a sole activity. I'm also passionate about working with my colleagues and helping particularly my role as Deputy Director Education of working with them to help them develop their teaching. I work with tutors, I work with my fellow colleagues here in the school to improve teaching practice. We share ideas, we learn about new forms of assessment that is valid and is interesting and engaging. So he cares deeply about the pedagogy because he wants us to learn not just be exposed to his wisdom and depth of knowledge. He actually wants us to be able to take that away and do something with it. But it's more than just skills. To me, good teaching is also about the right attitude and it's about an attitude that reflects that people matter, that students matter and that they're learning matters and to me teaching is an enormous privilege.