Kingsley L.
Dennis
'Let
The
Beauty
We Love Be What We Do'
BIOGRAPHICAL
DETAILS
Personal:
After finishing my undergraduate studies in 1993 I decided to take a
variety of manual jobs in order to write in the evenings.
Several
years later, and after three unpublished novels, I left the UK to
enter a Teacher-Training scheme in Ostrova, Czech Republic.
Afterwards I
took a one-year
teaching placement in Prague. From
Prague I moved to Istanbul, Turkey, and worked first in a private
school for
one year, and then in a
private university on the Asian
side for four more years. For these years I was mostly teaching
English & American Literature. I also wrote another novel – 'Of The
Spirit & The Flesh' – that remains unpublished.
I got tired of teaching the stories of long-dead people.
I
finally left Istanbul in August 2002 and came back to the UK to take
up a Masters degree at Nottingham Trent University.
After graduating
with a thesis on 'An Evolutionary Paradigm of Social Systems'
(Distinction) I moved to Lancaster to embark on
a PhD in Sociology. I also taught seminar classes and lectures for
three years before moving on to a research position in the Centre for
Mobilities Research (CeMoRe). I was awarded my doctorate in
2007: ' NEW
COMPLEXITIES:
converging spaces
of
connectivity, communication, and collaboration'.
I left Lancaster at the end of
September 2008.
I have also co-authored a book
that was published in Spring 2009 titled 'After
the
Car' which examines post-peak oil societies and mobility.
I have since re-located to Andalusia, Spain where I am currently
writing
further books.
Soon to be published is 'A RADICAL NEW WORLD: Moving Through the
Worldshift before Us' (Forthcoming; Inner Traditions)
These are the most basic
details only: in-between the lines much more has happened, and more
has been experienced.
I continue to write
poetry, travel, and seek to
understand the evolutionary mysteries of humankind.
These sites contain some
of my writings, musings, and digressions. We are all potential
alchemists, if we can only know
how to transmute our
coarse to the
finer...
Personal Research
Interests:
The esoteric
sciences have long
been my main focus of personal study.
In the words
of Omar-Ali Shah
(Agha):
"The Sufi Tradition
is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a philosophy of life, and its
purpose is to offer to man
a practical path to enable him to achieve a measure of higher
development, (and) through this elevated consciousness,
to be able to understand his relationship with the Supreme Being.
We hold that
the purity of man's inner being, in harmony with the Scheme of the
Master Designer, can lift him from
the mundane and shield him from the corruption and contamination of the
world outside. This does not mean a need
to retreat into a mountain cave or hermitage. On the contrary, it means
to be a full (and) better member of society;
to be in the World and not of the World; to follow rules and
disciplines to bring an inner peace, and by example,
to instruct other worthy people, with humility and purpose; to hark to
the voice of Nature that the secrets of the Tradition
may become known, but only to those whose intentions are pure,(and
who)can swear, Witnessed be the Lord of Life,
that they will use the Wisdoms truly and well.
The Tradition
is offered to the West with sincerity and deep purpose. If the Sufi
message finds an echo in the West,
then let its fraternity transcend time and distance, and may the
sharing of the Secrets bring this planet into Divine Favour."
For more other interests, read my main site Between Both Worlds
Academic:
2006-2008 Research Associate, Centre for
Mobilities
Research (CeMoRe), Sociology Department, Lancaster University.
2003-2006
Tutor/Lecturer in Social Theory, Sociology
Department, Lancaster
University.
1998-2002
Lecturer
of English Literature, Language & American Literature,
Yeditepe University,
Istanbul, Turkey.
1997-1998
English
Language
Teacher,
International
Language School,
Istanbul.
1996-1997
English
Language Teacher, Private Language Academy,
Prague,
Czech Republic.
Qualifications:
2007
PhD, New Complexities:
converging
spaces of connectivity,
communication,
and collaboration.
Lancaster University
2004
Certificate
in Learning and Teaching at Higher Education (CiLTHE)
2003
MA
(Distinction), Globalisation, Identity & Technology.
Nottingham Trent
University
1996
TESOL
– Teaching English to Speakers of
Other Languages
1993
BA (Hons) 2:1 English
Literature/American Studies. University of
Central Lancashire
Academic Research
Interests:
My
research
interests
include complexity theory; specifically,
complex mobilities that incorporate mobility flows,
dependencies,
and
informational
networks.
In particular I focus upon information
communication
technologies
that
facilitate
social
networks, such as the Internet, blogging,
and mobile devices.
My
research
also
involves examining physical-digital
convergences and how these might impact upon social processes.
This
includes
the
digital
rendition of identity and the implications of surveillance
technologies.
In
what
I
have termed ‘dark mobilities’ I examine how movement constructs
and
frames social forms and norms.
Included
here
are
spaces for civil society as
well as social spaces as a controlled medium.
Finally, I am involved in alternative
futures, future
scenario building, and forecasting.