Victoria

Victoria FRSA, 28, is a humanities tutor who specialises in Philosophy and English. Educated at Oxford and UCL she has a BA in English and an MA in Philosophy. She has over 500 hours of teaching experience and has taught A Level, GCSE & IB English Language, Literature, Philosophy, Politics and History.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Victoria is a former management consultant turned freelance writer and debut novelist. She has previously worked in the public and private sector, at Accenture, Demos & the Financial Times and for a number of tech startups. As a writer, her work has been published by titles including BBC News, the Guardian, the Independent & the London Review of Books. She has spoken on various panels for schools, conferences, salons and the BBC World Service on race, gender, art, and contemporary culture.

Her first novel, In the Palace of Flowers, which follows the lives of Abyssinian slaves living in the Persian royal court (who have since been written out of history), will be published next year by Cassava Republic, following an international book tour. In her spare time, in addition to tutoring, she organises philosophy salons and records a regular podcast. She is committed to community organising;; she got her start co-founding a TEDx series at Oxford whilst completing her undergraduate degree.

Availability: Weekends, evenings, some day times.

Willing to travel: 10 miles

Experience: Tutoring companies:
Oxford Summer Courses
Oxford Exclusif

Private tutoring:
More than 500 hours in English, History, Politics, Philosophy GCSE, A Level & IB across a number of boards.