About Matt
- A community outreach consultant with expertise in finding & shaping narratives for staff, stakeholders and the wider public
- An inspiring communicator, engaging international audiences from the worlds of education, business and politics
- A writer with print and online credits around the world
- An educator who has worked across the age ranges from 4 years old to 40, from the streets of Brooklyn to Shakespeare’s birthplace and rural Australia
Full biography
Dr. Matt Finch is an award-winning British writer and educator who has worked across the age ranges from 4 years old to 40 in locations as diverse as the mountains of Peru, the streets of Brooklyn, Shakespeare’s birthplace and rural New South Wales.
His educational work includes schoolteaching in England, schools outreach workshops and an award-winning Researcher in Residence placement for the University of London, literacy mentoring for children in foster care, and bespoke business workshops and training for corporate clients. Matt also currently serves on the advisory board to New York literacy organisation Behind the Book.
In 2010, Matt spoke at the British House of Commons on ‘Giving the Gift of Literacy’ for Volunteer Reading Help, an English literacy support charity.
Since then, Matt’s community outreach work has taken him around the world in roles including curriculum designer for Behind the Book, teacher trainer at San Domingo Savio School, Peru, and provider of high school workshops for New South Wales’ Education Week and Book Week. His educational outreach scheme for UK media distributor PMD Magnetics was commended in its first year of operation by the 2010-11 Business Language Champion Awards, recognising the efforts of businesspeople who promote language learning in the UK.
A fully qualified UK schoolteacher, Matt also holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of London, where he taught undergraduate seminars in English literature. His writing credits cover a range of print and online media in the US, UK and beyond, including music reviews for the BBC’s Ariel, children’s writing broadcast on UK radio, and various travel, arts and news features.
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