David Mathew

David Mathew is the author of the novels O My Days, Ventriloquists, The Parry and the Lunge and Dreadnought Flex , among other works. His shorter fiction is collected in Sick Dice and Panic Soup . A full-time academic in the Centre for Learning Excellence at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, he has a PhD in Higher Education and Psychoanalysis, and his academic work is published in the books Fragile Learning: The Influence of Anxiety, The Care Factory , and the forthcoming Psychic River:...See more

David Mathew is the author of the novels O My Days, Ventriloquists, The Parry and the Lunge and Dreadnought Flex , among other works. His shorter fiction is collected in Sick Dice and Panic Soup . A full-time academic in the Centre for Learning Excellence at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, he has a PhD in Higher Education and Psychoanalysis, and his academic work is published in the books Fragile Learning: The Influence of Anxiety, The Care Factory , and the forthcoming Psychic River: Storms and Safe Ports in Lifelong Learning and Long Lessons: The Endurance of Anxiety (a follow-up volume to Fragile Learning). He is a keen student of psychoanalysis and human behaviour, as well as of group activity. He lives in the south-east of England and enjoys hiking with his dog and the musical genres of jazz fusion and post-rock (although not at the same time). See less