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. 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 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

In these positions, I led seminars and tutorials, facilitated practical demonstrations, and marked coursework for undergraduate and Master's students for the following courses:

• 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

Other positions

May 2022 - July 2022, University of Sussex

Supervised the lab activities and taught practial research skills to a 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.