Teaching Experience

Summary

I have experience teaching science subjects to university students at both the undergraduate (BSc) and postgraduate (MSc/MSci) levels, including students with autism spectrum conditions, sensory impairments, mental health conditions, and learning differences, such as dyspraxia and dyslexia.

In my teaching positions, I led seminars and tutorials, facilitated practical demonstrations, marked coursework, and invigilated exams.

The students I have previously taught were studying towards the following degrees:

  • Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (BM BS)
  • MSci Medical Neuroscience / Biomedical Science / Biochemistry / Genetics
  • BSc Medical Neuroscience / Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence / Genetics / Biochemistry / Biology / Biomedical Science / Zoology
  • BSc Psychology / Psychology with Neuroscience / Psychology with Clinical Approaches / Psychology with Criminology / Psychology with Business and Management / Psychology with Economics
  • CertHE Psychology with Neuroscience

Teaching qualifications

2019 - 2020, University of Sussex

šŸŽ“ Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

Teaching positions

Feb 2023 - May 2023, School Tutor for Neuroscience, University of Sussex

Feb 2023 - May 2023, Doctoral Tutor for Psychology, University of Sussex

Oct 2019 - June 2021, Doctoral Tutor for Life Sciences, University of Sussex

May 2022 - July 2022, University of Sussex, Supervised the lab activities and taught practial research skills to an NHS foundation doctor as part of their Specialised Foundation Programme (SFP) placement.

Oct 2019 - Aug 2022, University of Sussex, Supervised and taught practical research skills to undergraduate, Master's and PhD students in the lab day-to-day.

Courses taught

  • Advanced Techniques in Neuroscience
    • Course level: Master's degree
    • Teaching mode: seminars, coursework marking
    • Total students taught: 43
    • Typical class size: ~20 students
    • Topics covered: ethics of human and animal research
  • Structure and Function in the Human Brain
    • Course level: third year undergraduate
    • Teaching mode: coursework marking
    • Total students taught: 40
    • Typical class size: 40 students
    • Topics covered: brain organoids
  • Drugs, Brain & Behaviour
    • Course level: third year undergraduate
    • Teaching mode: test administration, exam invigilation
    • Total students taught: 8
    • Typical class size: 8 students
  • Techniques in Neuroscience
    • Course level: second year undergraduate
    • Teaching mode: lab practicals
    • Total students taught: 45
    • Typical class size: 15 students
    • Topics covered: action potentials, mechanoreceptors, human visual system, motor units
  • Medical Neuroscience
    • Course level: second year medical students
    • Teaching mode: tutorials
    • Total students taught: 45
    • Typical class size: 15 students
    • Topics covered: synaptic transmission
  • Principles of Neuronal Function
    • Course level: second year undergraduate
    • Teaching mode: tutorials, coursework marking
    • Total students taught: 19
    • Typical class size: 6-7 students
    • Topics covered: signalling by neurons and synapses, neurotransmission and information coding, nervous system plasticity, neurodevelopment
  • Brain and Behaviour
    • Course level: second year undergraduate
    • Teaching mode: seminars, coursework marking
    • Total students taught: 158
    • Typical class size: ~25 students
    • Topics covered: action potentials, synaptic transmission, neuropharmacology of anti-depressants and anxiolytics, neuroanatomy, brain development and neurogenetics, motor behaviour, initiation of voluntary actions, plasticity and learning, individual differences
  • Neuroscience and Behaviour
    • Course level: first year undergraduate
    • Teaching mode: seminars, coursework marking
    • Total students taught: 46
    • Typical class size: 23 students
    • Topics covered: mechanisms and functions of behaviour, basics of neuroscience and ethology
  • Physiology and Disease
    • Course level: first year undergradute
    • Teaching mode: seminars, coursework marking
    • Total students taught: 109
    • Typical class size: 20-35 students
    • Topics covered: control and regulation through nervous, hormonal and other homeostatic mechanisms, from cellular and molecular levels, to the major organ systems
  • Cell Biology
    • Course level: first year undergraduate
    • Teaching mode: lab practicals
    • Total students taught: 120
    • Typical class size: ~30 students
    • Topics covered: microscopy, comparison of procaryotic and eucaryotic cells
  • Psychobiology
    • Course level: first year undergraduate
    • Teaching mode: seminars, coursework marking
    • Total students taught: 196
    • Typical class size: ~25 students
    • Topics covered: synaptic neurotransmission, hormonal actions, intracellular electrical processes, biological basis of emotions, homeostatic and non-homeostatic peripheral and central mechanisms underlying drinking and eating behaviour, learning and memory, evolutionary adaptation and selection