Teaching Experience

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Teaching qualifications

🎓 2023 – 2024, University of Sussex, Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE) and Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

🎓 2019 – 2020, University of Sussex, Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

Supervisory positions (research lab-based)

Current, University of Sussex

• PhD Neuroscience: 1 student
• MSc Neuroscience: 1 student
• MRes Neuroscience: 1 student
• BSc Neuroscience: 1 final-year student
• BSc Psychology with Neuroscience: 1 final-year student

Past (since May 2022), University of Sussex

• MSc Data Science: 1 student
• MSc Genetic Manipulation and Molecular Cell Biology: 1 student
• MSci Neuroscience: 2 students
• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery: 2 fourth-year medical students
• BSc Neuroscience: 5 final-year students
• Junior Research Associate: 1 second-year student
• Foundation Programme (Medicine): 1 medical doctor

Academic teaching positions

Oct 2019 – July 2023, Associate Tutor for Life Sciences, Neuroscience, and Psychology, University of Sussex.

• Degrees taught on:
  • 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

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 undergraduate
  • 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