Biography
I am a Departmental Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry and an Associate Director of the Inorganic Materials for Advanced Manufacturing Centre for Doctoral Training (IMAT CDT).
I studied for my undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Imperial College London and stayed to complete my PhD in the group of Professor Nicholas Long, as part of the Doctoral Training Centre in Smart Medical Imaging. I worked with upconversion nanoparticles, with focus on developing luminescent probes for molecular imaging.
During the course of my PhD, I spent an increasing amount of time teaching in the undergraduate chemistry labs; it was there that I discovered my love for teaching chemistry.
In 2021, I moved to the Chemistry Teaching Laboratory at the University of Oxford. I specialised in teaching practical skills to undergraduate chemists, with a focus on pedagogical approaches to teaching practical chemistry, and the design of new undergraduate experiments. I started my current role as Departmental Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry during the summer of 2024.
Teaching
I teach inorganic chemistry tutorials to students across all three years of the undergraduate course, also teaching tutorials at The Queen’s College and Jesus College. I lecture a first-year inorganic course on ‘Acids and Bases’ and I deliver teaching as part of the IMAT CDT. I have also supervised chemistry Part II (Master’s) projects aligned with the fields of inorganic chemistry and chemistry education.
Research
My research in the field of Chemistry Education takes a practitioner-based approach, considering the knowledge and skills we want undergraduate students to possess by the end of their studies, and how we design and develop a curriculum which aligns with these goals. I have a particular interest in linking undergraduate learning to research carried out in the university.
