I’m responsible for the education programmes of the students in engineering and physical sciences and a member of the University Senior Education team.

By working in partnership with students and staff we aim to provide an inclusive yet challenging education to create graduates ready for the current global challenges.

I’m Chair of the Institute of Physics Juno Panel. This is an equality award run by physicists for physicists.

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My most recent paper had its origins in the final year undergraduate project of Helen Ansell, and Austin Tomlinson (PhD, now a lecturer for the College Foundation Year).
‘Transitions between phyllotactic lattice states in curved geometries‘, Sci Rep 10, 17411 (2020).

I’m the UK PI on an NSF-ESRC grant ‘centering Women of Color in STEM: Data-Driven Opportunities for Inclusion’. My postdoc is Jaimie Miller-Friedmann. 

My PhD student Robert Stanyon has been using techniques from theoretical physics and network theory to address the issues of efficient marking of work in STEM.

The core of this is a new marking platform, and a spinout company, 6 Bit – all the founders are theoretical physicists.

Practice is key to competence in many technical disciplines – and alongside this confidence.

Our implementation of MapleTA (now Möbius) led to a research partnership.

Our extensive question-banks were developed via summer student projects.

I lead the digital education strategy for the College, alongside Dr Jonathan Watkins ( EPS Ed Tech Team Leader) and Dr Tim Jackson (EPS Distance Learning lead). This facilitates our dual mathematics programme in China, and our bimodal provision in the CTL.