September, 2009
About Dr Karen O'Rourke
I am a qualified teacher of English (Dip. T.E.F.L.A.), with over 25 years’ part-time teaching experience in British universities and institutions of education in Britain, Europe and Asia.
My higher academic background is in arts subjects, specifically in English and philosophy. I graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in 1983, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1990 for a thesis on the phenomenology of religion.
I do not run a tuition or proof-reading centre or employ any staff. I am self-employed as an independent ‘sole trader’. For three evenings a week, I teach school-aged children.
From September 2009, I am available to postgraduate university students to work by arrangement in my home on weekday mornings only, Monday to Friday. This is for a minimum of one and a half hours and a maximum of two hours per day for each student. (As a general rule, current students usually book two hours each week.)
Students come to my home in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham. To date, all my students have been Ph.D. and masters students from the University of Birmingham. In the past two years, I have proof-read the dissertations and theses of masters doctoral theses in the Faculties of Arts, Commerce and Social Sciences; Education; Engineering; Medical Sciences and Dentistry.