Associates
Professor Norman Staines
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07904 895 780
Norman is the founder and director of Incus Associates. He trained originally as a zoologist and immunologist, more recently in creative writing, and brings his extensive experience of life in academia and industry to the design and personal delivery of training programmes for researchers. He has taught at all levels of higher education, has supported through external funding a large research group with interests that have ranged from transplantation research through rheumatology to cell and molecular immunology.
Norman was Professor of Immunology at King’s College London from 1985 where he also established and led a Graduate School and a skills development programme. He is the author of many original research papers, has written and edited books and supervised over 20 doctoral research students. He has wide experience of issues surrounding professional and personal development through work with The British Society for Immunology, The Royal Society of Medicine and The UK GRAD programme.
Peter Johnstone
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Peter has been an independent consultant and practitioner since 2002 and has worked primarily in career development, outplacement support and skills training. He has also initiated, developed and delivered various seminars/workshops covering Retirement, Self Employment, Presentation Skills, Job Search techniques, Interview skills and Personal skills training with an emphasis on Assertiveness and communication skills. As an INCUS Associates Ltd he also specialises in: MBTI Personal profiling, One to One career support programmes, Self Employment workshops.
Peter is a Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development and is qualified in the use of Psychometric tests holding Levels A & B certificates. He is experienced in the use of OPQ/MBTI/Belbin and PPA and uses NLP, Transactional Analysis (TA) and Emotional Intelligence (EQ) in training courses.
Shirley Ellis
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Shirley has been an active researcher in the field of molecular immunology for more than 25 years. Durng this time, she has successfully supervised ten PhD students and published in the region of 70 scientific papers. She has extensive experience of reviewing manuscript submissions to a number of journals, and grant proposals to a range of funding bodies. She is actively engaged in postgraduate student and supervisor training. In 2007 she was awarded an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Sussex.
Her involvement in Incus Associates stems from a desire to encourage and enable researchers to enjoy writing, to improve their communication skills, and thus to enhance their career development.
As a result of her work involving postgraduate supervisor training Shirley was made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2007.
Nigel Gregory
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Nigel originally trained at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), on the 3-year acting course. On leaving, he was first in Repertory, before moving on to London where he became Artistic Director of the Half Moon Theatre, and two touring companies; also acting in many TV productions and film. LAMDA has a world- renowned reputation in leading the new thinking on voice development, and Nigel returned there to train with Kristin Linklater on coaching Voice and Acting. He then began coaching Presentation and Communication in the wider world, both in the Private and Public sectors.
Nigel became very aware that intelligent, gifted, articulate, people from all backgrounds could easily and often be reduced to ‘fear and panic’ by the idea of any kind of impromptu or public speaking. To deal with this problem, he devised his own system by adapting the professional techniques so they could be taught effectively to any interested group or individual. He has his own production company Bluemoon Productions, and runs Voice Presentation Courses, including a Master Classes for researchers in an academic environment, as described in our page of Courses on presentation skills.Derek Cooper
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Derek trained in mathematics and has a PhD from the Open University. For many years he provided computing and statistics support and teaching at King's College London, particularly for the schools of medicine and dentistry, and is co-author of nearly 100 publications. He is now a freelance statistician offering training, tutoring and analytical services to researchers.
Derek continues to teach and support research postgraduates from various disciplines, and is the statistics tutor for several MSc courses providing course material, teaching, assessment of assignments and setting and marking of examination papers. The courses he offers through Incus Associates are based on his experiences with the staff and students in the many academic institutions in which he works.
Derek offers consultancy on the design and delivery of statistics programmes, and will be pleased to discuss the provision of training and tutoring tailored for your institution.
Etain Casey
Etain trained in history and economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies before working for a Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Trinity College, London. She has taught English throughout Europe and in Russia and has comprehensive knowledge of the communication problems affecting students of English language at all levels and particularly students of academic English. She co-ordinated a course at King's College London for some years and has worked as an Associate Consultant for a government department on effective Business Writing courses.
Etain offers consultancy advice to individuals and groups on the grammatical and structural aspects of writing. Please see the Incus web pages on One-to-One support.