Summary
I have experience teaching science subjects to university students at both the undergraduate (BSc) and postgraduate (MSc/MSci) levels. Successfully facilitated learning for students encompassing a spectrum of neurodiverse conditions, sensory impairments, mental health conditions, and learning differences, including dyspraxia and dyslexia, demonstrating a strong commitment to accessibility and individualised instruction.
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
š Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Teaching positions
Oct 2019 - July 2023, Associate Tutor for Life Sciences, Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Sussex
May 2022 - July 2022, University of Sussex, Supervised the lab activities and taught practical 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
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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
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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
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Drugs, Brain & Behaviour
- Course level: third year undergraduate
- Teaching mode: test administration, exam invigilation
- Total students taught: 8
- Typical class size: 8 students
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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
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Medical Neuroscience
- Course level: second year medical students
- Teaching mode: tutorials
- Total students taught: 45
- Typical class size: 15 students
- Topics covered: synaptic transmission
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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