Dr Pickles teaches across the Undergraduate and Post-Graduate History programmes. His modules focus on the early and high middle ages and include subjects such as the Crusades, the viking diaspora, the Norman Conquest, and pre-modern courts. He is joint module leader for the pioneering History module History at Work, which challenges students to engage with the professional frameworks for Heritage and Teaching, and requires them to design their on frameworks and deliver real-world projects to briefs set out by external partners including the Chester PGCE History, Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, the Grosvenor Museum Chester, and Chester Cathedral.