CV

Doctorate in Natural Philosophy (Physics Education)

• Department for Physics Education under Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilhelm
• Project title: “Talking Circuits – The Development and Assessment of a Digitally-Scaffolded, Oracy-Based Method for Teaching and Learning Electrical Circuits in Early Secondary Schools”

PGCE with Post-16 Enhancement (Physics)

Master of Physics (Applied and Engineering Physics)

• Thesis at LMU München: “Reaction Nanoscopy – Near-Field-Induced Dissociative Ionisation from Nanoparticles in Solution” (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M. Kling)

Bachelor of Physics

• Tutors: Prof. Dr. H. Kraus (Relativity and Particle Physics), Prof. Dr. M. Johnston (Atomic, Molecular, Laser and Condensed Matter Physics)
• Education project: “An Examination of Misconceptions Regarding Electrical Circuits with a Focus on Models of Current” (Supervisor: Dr. J. Hillier)
• Physics project: “Pulse Width Characterisation at the Vulcan Laser Facility” (Supervisor: Dr. A. Dyson)

A Levels (Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Further Mathematics)

GCSEs

Postdoctoral Researcher (Physics Education)

• Research on digital and collaborative learning in physics education
• Teaching seminars and practical courses for teacher education

Graduate Researcher (Physics Education)

E-Learning Assistant

Working Student

Library Assistant

Library Assistant

Junior Consultant

Project Leader and English Teacher

Physics Practical Courses for Teacher Education (Laboratory Courses 1, 2 & 3)

• Mechanics and Thermodynamics
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Optics

Theoretical Physics for Grammar School Teachers (Theoretical Physics 1, 2 & 3)

• Mechanics
• Electrodynamics
• Quantum Mechanics & Special Relativity

Electromagnetism for Primary School Teachers

• Integrated course on electromangetism and how to teach it in primary schools.

Supervision of Graduate Theses

• A study on the understanding of simple electrical circuits in secondary schools in Germany and Turkey (Raziye Fischer)
• Development and evaluation of a learning sequence for simple electrical circuits in distance learning (Baris Ackos)

• Best Student Paper Award CSEDU (Co-Author, 2020)
• British Journal of Educational Technology Fellowship (2021)

• Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• IOP Teacher Training Scholarship (2024)

• Oxford Physics Scott Prize for Teaching and Learning in Physics
• Best in College: Spoken Skills

• Academic Scholarship, Royal Grammar School Worcester
• Corpus Christi College Science Prize
• Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award
• Charles Mytton Prize for Overall Academic Achievement
• Pullinger Prize for Mathematics
• Victoria Wright Prize for Science