I am the Course Director of the MSc in Science Communication at the Science Communication Unit, Imperial College London. I also teach on its MSc in Science Media Production. My teaching for the upcoming academic year is as follows:
- Science and its Social Contexts
- Science and Fiction
- Ethics
- Group projects
- Dissertations
My current PhD student is working on a project on AI-generated fake news about climate change. I only take on one PhD student each year; the application deadline for 2026 entry has now passed, but I am open to enquiries about October 2027 entry.
I do not currently teach undergraduate students.
Past Teaching
University of Cambridge
Postgraduate
- MSt in AI Ethics and Society
- MPhil in Digital Humanities
- Postgraduate Diploma in Science Communication
- Postgraduate Certificate in Practical Science Communication
Undergraduate
- Practical Criticism & Critical Practice (English)
- English Literature 1870-present (English)
- Dissertations on nineteenth- to twenty-first-century literature (English)
- Interdisciplinary Summer & Winter Schools (Continuing Education)
University of Oxford
Undergraduate
- Critical Theory, St Anne’s College
- Virginia Woolf and Modernism, St Anne’s College
- English Literature 1910-Present, English Faculty
- Places and Obsessions, Continuing Education
- Children’s Literature, English Faculty
- Science Fiction, Pembroke College
- Women, Writing, and Mental Illness, St Anne’s College
- Postmodern Interpretations of the Novel, St Anne’s College
I have also taught Gothic Fiction at Stanford University (Stanford House in Oxford) and Oxford Poetry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Summer Programme in Oxford).
Dr Kanta Dihal 