Dr Aaron Thom

Biography

My academic background is as an art historian, who specialises in the art of Caravaggio and his followers. I graduated with my PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2015, which was supervised by John Gash. I am interested in all matters of Connoisseurship, not just from the seventeenth century. I have published articles about Tommaso Salini and Battistello Caracciolo, as well as appearing in a short film about the authorship of the Perth Museum and Art Gallery's Baroque Christ displaying his wounds.

Before transferring to Educational Development in the Centre for Academic Development (CAD) in 2021, I worked as a Teaching Fellow in History of Art. I taught at all undergraduate levels and ultimately co-ordinated the Master's programme in Art and Business, as well as running fieldtrips. I have also worked in CAD as an Academic Skills Adviser for Academic Writing. 

Currently, I co-ordinate the Principles of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education course (PLTHE), which sits within the School of Education. This course is popular with final year Postgraduate Research Students who teach or demonstrate, as well as early-career staff. Furthermore, I co-ordinate many of our staff development sessions around teaching, namely the Introduction to Teaching sessions for doctoral students, the Micro-credential short courses in Enhancing your Teaching, and the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education course for new academic staff at the University of Aberdeen.

I am interested in inclusive learning environments (online and in-person), Decolonising learning, and presentation skills.