Nicole Ridley

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Subject Lead for PHSE, Teacher of History and Sociology, Malet Lambert School, Hull

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Nicole Ridley is passionate about the development of history provision at GCSE and A-Level and is at the forefront of diversifying and developing the UK curriculum. She teaches History and Sociology and is Subject Lead for PSHE at Malet Lambert in Hull, part of the Education Alliance Multi-Academy Trust @RidleyHistory. Nicole gained her undergraduate in History at Royal Holloway, University of London, Masters in Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh, and her PGCE at the University of York. 

She worked closely with Treatied Spaces to redesign The American West, c1835-1895, a popular option on the Pearson Edexcel GCSE History specification. Nicole was pleased to feature female Indigenous leadership within GCSE history for the first time, introducing the central Lakota spiritual figure White Buffalo Calf Woman.

As Nicole explains, ‘It is by challenging and diversifying the structural narrative that we continue to break down the walls that keep women out of the curriculum.”