Paula Ambrossi is lecturer in Modern Foreign Languages at the Institute of Education, UCL. Her latest works include: The Language we Speak and the Empires we Embrace. Her life in UK, teaching experience and academic research led her to write the book, Bottom Set Citizen: Meritocracy’s Undeserving. As a PhD candidate, she is exploring how we use human suffering in its photographic form, Sustaining Hegemony: Educational Use of Photographs Representing Human Distress.