Appointment of Dr Tom Durno to the position of Deputy Head (Academic)

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr Tom Durno to the position of Deputy Head (Academic). 

Tom began teaching as a Graduate Tutor at the University of Cambridge, while completing doctoral studies on the poetics of the English Romantic ode. His research was based on the ways in which ephemeral poetry written for newspapers - extremely popular in the early nineteenth century - shaped the practice of major literary figures at the time.

'I still love the Romantic period: a time when it seemed that a mere thing of beauty, even the slightest poem, could inspire the most powerful political and social thinking.'

The joy of teaching undergraduates took him into the classroom and away from research, and he began his school teaching career at Trinity School, Croydon. He moved to Westminster School in 2017, running the English department there, and taking a particular interest in equity and diversity in school curriculums, cross-curricular scholarship, and, latterly, the possibilities of AI in education.

The whole of the Alleyn's community gives Tom a very warm welcome.