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Curriculum Vitae

Tony North 

Education       Career    
William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester 1985 A-Levels: Chemistry Physics Biology AAA Assistant Clinical Psychologist 1989-1991 Withington Hospital, Manchester
University of Nottingham 1988 B.Sc. Psychology, 1st Class Research Assistant, Child Language Disorders 1991-1994  University of Manchester
University of Manchester 1994 M.Ed. Education and the Mass Media Graduate Assistant 1994-1999 Penn State University
Pennsylvania State University 1997 M.Sc. Developmental Psychology Teacher of History, Geography & Maths 1999-2001 The Owl School, Washington DC
Pennsylvania State University 1998 Graduate Minor in Educational Theory Writing Children's Novel, The King Herself 2001-2007 Manchester
      Teaching Assistant 2002-2003 St.Paul's CE Primary, Withington, Manchester
      Teaching Workshops in Primary Schools 2004-present North West area

 

Publications

Painting Like an Egyptian, article in Ancient Egypt magazine, Issue 40, Feb/March 2007

The King Herself, children's novel, self-published May 2007

Four short plays for children, published by Lazybee Scripts, June 2007: Odysseus and the Cyclops, The Olympian Myths, Perseus and Medusa, & Theseus and the Minotaur

Marathon, children's novel, self-published September 2009

  

Joint publications in child language research

Bishop, D. V. M., North, T., & Donlan, C. (1995). Genetic basis of specific language impairment: evidence from a twin study. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 37, 56-71.

Bishop, D. V. M., North, T., & Donlan, C. (1996). Nonword repetition as a behavioural marker for inherited language impairment: evidence from a twin study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 37, 391-403.

 

Other Experience and Skills

Visits to Egypt, November 2001 & April 2009 (Luxor, Cairo, Edfu, Aswan, Kom Ombo, Saqqara)

Visits to Greece: Corfu (1991), Crete (2003), Santorini (2004), Athens, Delphi & Peloponnese (2005), Rhodes (2007), Athens & Marathon (2007)

Volunteer in elementary schools, State College, USA, 1995-1999

Group Coordinator, Penn State Amnesty International, 1995-1999

    

 

Teacher Training,  SCITT for Outstanding Schools, Nottingham University, August 2005 & 2006

History Teacher, Maternity Cover, William Hulme's Grammar School, September-October 2001

Mural of Egyptian Tomb Paintings for The Bookshop in Withington, Manchester, 2002-2003  other artwork

Member, Manchester Ancient Egypt Society, 2004-2008

Classical guitar since 1985, member of The Oswalds acoustic trio 2003-present listen to our tracks