The IEC has a team of volunteers who want to make international students welcome. There are a number of us, but we are still getting everyone’s photos and information together. So for now, here are a just a few:
The Teagle Family
Peter Teagle is the international chaplain at Brookes. He is married to Lynette, from Singapore, and they have three children, Sam (15), Laura (12) and Madeline (8). Peter met Lynette at Liverpool University where he studied biology. After teaching English in China, they lived in Singapore for a few years teaching and studying before returning to the UK. Peter loves celtic music and plays several musical instruments..
Penny was born and raised in Canada by British parents. Her interest in people of different cultures has taken her to Peru, Cameroon and Papua New Guinea, helping to train teachers of reading and writing, and also studying child development. She also taught university in the United States for 10 years, specialising in cross-cultural psychology. She moved permanently to the UK in early 2007, and loves it here. Among other things, she enjoys hill walking.
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David Scott has travelled in around 50 countries but was first an international student in 1982, in Arizona. He has taught in Indonesia and spent two years as a professor in Nairobi University in Kenya. He now works in the John Radcliffe Hospital and loves to take visitors on walking tours of Oxford. Oh, and drinking tea while watching birds…
Scott grew up in Norfolk, then lived in Loughborough for four years where he studied Product Design & Technology at Loughborough University. He is now working with a charity for one year which involves doing Graphic Design work in their office, studying theology and supporting Oxford Brookes students. Scott loves all things design related, especially typography!