Tom Haward is subject leader for History in a West Sussex school. He started his career working for VSO in a school on the Zimbabwe-Botswana border and since then has taught in comprehensives in Brighton and London, interspersed with a year in Brazil setting up a new secondary school based on the English National Curriculum.

His interest in visual learning developed when he was awarded a Best Practice Research Scholarship to research the effectiveness of visual learning in KS3 History. Working with the University of Brighton, educational psychologists and leading professionals, he has developed a series of strategies and resources to engage and motivate students of all abilities.