Samuel Cheney

Course organiser for honours-level courses 'Chinese Whispers: China in Western Minds Since 1300' and 'White Man's Burden: Race, Gender, and the Victorian Empire', incorporating curriculum design, delivering teaching, and marking assessments Designed a masters methodology course 'Music for Historians' Designed a third-year undergraduate course 'Music and the British Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century'

Teaching and Research Fellow in Imperial and Global History - University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology - Edinburgh

(2025-09)

• Course organiser for honours-level courses 'Chinese Whispers: China in Western Minds Since 1300' and 'White Man's Burden: Race, Gender, and the Victorian Empire', incorporating curriculum design, delivering teaching, and marking assessments
• Designed a masters methodology course 'Music for Historians'
• Designed a third-year undergraduate course 'Music and the British Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century'
• Provide dissertation supervision to undergraduate and masters students
• Deliver lectures and pre-honours tutorials
• Sit on the department committee for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Tutor of History - University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology - Edinburgh

(2021-09 - 2024-12)

Delivered tutorials to pre-honours undergraduate students in history at the University of Edinburgh. This involved planning and delivering tutorials to groups of up to twelve students, as well as marking coursework essays.

• Taught on Introduction to Historiography
• Taught on Early Modern History: A Connected World
• Taught on The Historian's Toolkit
• Taught on The History of Edinburgh
• Taught on Themes in Modern European History

Tutor of Music - Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh

(2022-09 - 2023-01)

Alongside teaching undergraduate history tutorials, taught on pre-honours courses. This also involved devising tutorials, marking coursework essays, and holding office hour meetings.

• Taught on the pre-honours course Topics in Popular Music

Writing Centre Tutor - University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology - Edinburgh

(2024 - 2025)

Offered targeted one-on-one essay writing sessions for undergraduate and taught masters students. These consultancy sessions, delivered online, aimed to help students improve their academic writing technique.

Co-Convenor, Edinburgh Graduate Workshop in Global History - University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh

(2022-06 - 2023-06)

Was the convenor of this hybrid seminar series for academic year 2022 – 2023, inviting speakers from both the UK and beyond.

Co-Founder - Theoretically History

(2023 - 2024)

Co-founder of the online reading group 'Theoretically History: Theory, Methods, and Analysis for History Adjacent Research'. Drawing over fifty attendees from a dozen Scottish institutions, this reading group guided participants through the foundational works of political, sociological, and cultural theory that are commonly drawn upon by historians.

Paid Intern - Museums and Galleries Edinburgh - Edinburgh

(2022-04 - 2022-07)

• Lead research intern on project 'Addressing Racism in Collection and Catalogue'
• Updated the museum's database in accordance with contemporary inclusive cataloguing practices
• Planned a gallery intervention on 'The Children of the British Empire'
• Wrote a policy report advising Museums and Galleries Edinburgh on further anti-racist work
• Gave a public lecture 'Racializing Children: Addressing Anti-Black Racism in the Museum of Childhood Book Collection' for Black History Month Scotland in October 2022

Study China programme participant - Zhejiang University - Hangzhou

(2019-08 - 2019-08)

The Study China programme for learning Mandarin Chinese was primarily funded by the British Council, although also awarded the £950 Reynold's Scholarship from New College, Oxford (awarded based on academic attainment and financial need). Now works in Mandarin at the standardised B2/C1 level.

PhD - History - University of Edinburgh (2020-10 - 2025-01)

MPhil - British and European History, 1700 – 1850 - New College, University of Oxford (2018 - 2020)

BA - History - St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford (2015 - 2018)