Paul Di Felice
Principal
Tel: 01865 759600
Email: pfelice@ruskin.ac.uk
I have a wealth of experience in teaching, leadership and management across FE and HE sectors. For over 20 years I taught history in both higher and further education contexts and have focused particularly on making history accessible and meaningful to all.
I have a very strong background in post-16 adult education and the widening participation curriculum and have led the ‘inclusive’ provision for adults and young people in three Colleges. Leadership and management are my key strengths; I have served at every level within a College structure and held the position of Vice Principal in three institutions.
I have been an Open University Associate Lecturer in Arts and Humanities for the past decade, hold a PGCE in Further Education and studied History and Politics at the University of Salford. I completed my MPhil on my Italian working class roots, looking at Italian migration into Manchester in my grandparents’ day.
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Academic Papers and Conferences
Arts Research Group Open University in the West Midlands, Italians, Ice Cream and the Working Class 1870-1945, Nov 2013.
P.Di Felice, Reconstructing Manchester’s Little Italy 1870-1945, Manchester Regional History Review, Vol.5; May 1997.
P.Di Felice, Manchester’s Little Italy at War, 1940-1945: Enemy Aliens or Reluctant Foes? Northern History, XXXIX; March 2002.
P.Di Felice, Italians in Manchester 1891-1939: Settlement and Occupations, The Local Historian, Vol.30, number 2 – May 2000.
P.Di Felice, The Alien Presence, Modern History Review, Vol.10, February 1996.