Education
For over thirty years, my work was rooted in education.
I began as a primary school teacher, later becoming a headteacher and then an academic working across universities in Scotland. My teaching and research focused on inequality, social justice, and the lives of young people whose voices are often unheard.
Education taught me to listen deeply.
To question systems.
To hold space for complexity.
But over time, I came to understand something important.
Intellectual understanding alone does not heal. Many of the women I worked alongside were carrying stress, grief, trauma, and self-doubt that could not be solved by ideas alone.
That realisation led me here.
Becoming a Life Guide and Sound Healing Practitioner was not a change of direction - it was a deepening. I now offer one-to-one coaching, sound baths, and restorative practices that support clarity, steadiness, and inner harmony.
My academic life gave me insight.
My lived experience gave me compassion.
This work brings them together.
Qualifications
PhD (University of Edinburgh), Education
MSc (Distinction) (University of Edinburgh), Education
PG Cert (Distinction with Merit in Teaching)(Northern College of Education, Aberdeen), Primary Education
BA (Hons) (National University of Singapore), English
Publications
Marcus, G. (2023) 'Talking of silence: Young Gypsy/Traveller women in Scotland', in Beasley, C. and Papadelos, P. (eds.) Living legacies of social injustice: Power, time and social change. Taylor Francis.
Marcus, G., & Van de Peer, S. (Eds.). (2023). Anti-racism in Education: Stories of Growing Activism. Critical Publishing.
Marcus, G. (2022) [Review of the book Against White Feminism, by Rafia Zakaria]. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 6(2), 33. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/12356
Marcus, G. (2022) 'Digital and remote models of mentoring', in Eady, S., Essex, J., Livingston, K. and McColl, M. (eds.) Mentoring Teachers in Scotland: A Practical Guide. London, Routledge, pp. 171-186.
Marcus, G. (2019) Gypsy and Traveller Girls: Silence, agency and power. Monograph. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Marcus, G. (2018) Scotland's Attainment Gap: Three Ways to Bridge the Educational Divide, The Conversation
Marcus, G. (2016) Closing the attainment gap: What can schools do?SPICe Briefing SB 16/68
In The Press
Marcus, G. (2021) In memory of Stephen Lawrence: ‘Decolonising the Curriculum: Silence is not an Option’, Dr Geetha Marcus's blog, 21st April. https://www.qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/blogs/staff-dr-geetha-marcus/decolonising-the-curriculum-silence-is-not-an-option/
Marcus, G. (2021) 'Pandemic Thoughts: Decolonising COVID', Dr Geetha Marcus's blog, 30 September. https://www.qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/blogs/staff-dr-geetha-marcus/pandemic-thoughts/
Marcus, G. (2020) 'At dawn today', QMU@Home Blogs, 29 April. https://www.qmu.ac.uk/at-home/blogs/at-dawn-today/
Homelessness Discussion at Edinburgh International Book Festival https://www.sfha.co.uk/news/news-category/sector-news/news-article/homelessness-discussion-at-edinburgh-international-book-festival