Philosophy PhD candidate with university teaching experience gives lessons in Philosophy and Sociology for A-level to postgraduate students in Birmingham and online

I am in my late forties and came to Charlotte with no formal philosophy background whatsoever, just a long-standing curiosity about consciousness and the mind that I had never had the chance to explore properly. I was a little nervous that I would be out of my depth, but Charlotte immediately put me at ease. She curated a reading list that suited exactly where I was starting from, and each session felt like a genuine conversation between two people who found the questions fascinating rather than a lecture I was being talked at. She is warm, funny, endlessly patient, and clearly loves what she does. Six months in I am reading Dennett and actually enjoying it. If you are an adult learner wondering whether philosophy tutorials are for you, they are, and Charlotte is exactly the right person to take you there.

I came to Charlotte at a fairly desperate point in my Masters dissertation. I had a topic I cared about but could not get my argument to hold together, and my supervisor's feedback was that my theoretical framework needed substantial work. Charlotte read my drafts carefully between sessions and came prepared with genuinely incisive questions that helped me see exactly where my reasoning was weak. She never imposed her own views, but she challenged mine rigorously and that pressure was exactly what I needed. What I valued most was that she treated me as an intellectual equal while still being clearly the more experienced thinker in the room. My dissertation was resubmitted and passed with no corrections. I would not hesitate to recommend her to any postgraduate student feeling stuck.

I started working with Charlotte about 4 months before my A-level exams, mainly because I was finding the ethics and epistemology units really hard to write about clearly. She has this wonderful ability to make even the most abstract ideas feel grounded and relevant. She would relate Kantian ethics back to real situations until it genuinely made sense, rather than just feeling like something to memorise. She also helped me enormously with essay structure and developing my own argument rather than just summarising philosophers. My teacher had always said my essays read as too descriptive, and Charlotte fixed that within a few sessions. I got an A in my philosophy paper and I am certain I would not have without her.

I found Charlotte through Superprof after falling badly behind in my first-year logic module and genuinely not knowing where to start. From our very first session it was clear she was different to most teachers. She never made me feel stupid for not understanding. Instead she broke every problem down patiently until it clicked, and then pushed me just a little further than I thought I could go. What I appreciate most is that she never just gives you the answer. She walks you through the reasoning until you find it yourself, which means it actually sticks. By the time my exam came around I was the one explaining truth tables to my flatmates. I went from predicted to fail to passing comfortably. I cannot recommend her highly enough.