David Mathew works at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and as an independent researcher and writer. His wide areas of interest include psychoanalysis, linguistics, distance learning, prisons and online anxiety. With approximately 600 published pieces to his name, including a novel based on his time working in the education department of a maximum security prison ('O My Days'), he has published widely in academic, journalistic and fiction outlets. In addition to his writing, he edits the 'Journal of Pedagogic Development', teaches academic writing, and he particularly enjoys lecturing in foreign countries.
