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Cambridge University Library to produce a survey of the secondary literature on a mid-17th-century Persian text called the Dabestan. I was provisionally accepted as a postgraduate by King’s College, subject to funding from the British Council, but my application was unsuccessful and I was forced to postpone my research plans.
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Cambridge to look into pursuing doctoral research. I had developed an interest in comparative philosophy and religion and was put in touch with John Cooper, a Persianist at the University’s Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. At his suggestion, I used the excellent
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Australia, in 2003 and became a citizen in 2005. Between 2003 and 2008 I was primarily responsible for my two young children, although I also worked part-time as circumstances permitted, first as a sessional tutor in the School of Philosophy and Theology at the
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American' department of Heffers, Cambridge's premier academic bookstore. This was followed by experience in two small publishing-services companies, first as an editor and project manager at
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Montessori College'). In 2017 I returned to Hale, teaching ATAR Philosophy and Ethics, as well as RAVE (Religious and Values Education) in the Middle School and PVR (Philosophy, Values and Religion) in Years 9 and 10.
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in 2007. I was a regular facilitator at this event, and Chief
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Knowledge (XXG) in July 2006, under a different user name. In 2009, unhappy with the problems created by Knowledge (XXG) anonymity, I decided to edit under my own name. I have written about this
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Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and in 2019 I was a teaching assistant in Business Ethics at Curtin University.
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