Experience

St Albans School

• United Kingdom
• Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director of Cross-Curricular Learning

  • Sep 2012 - Present

  My role as Director of Cross-Curricular Learning was created in September 2012 to enhance the synergies beyond and between curriculum subjects. Encompassing the coordination and development of best practice, I have responsibility for curriculum enrichment at St Albans School, with a particular focus on Sixth Form, alongside my role as classroom Physics teacher.Lower down the School, we offer Year 10-11 students the chance to research and write a dissertation and gain a GCSE Higher Project Qualification. I deliver the taught element via on-line and face-to-face sessions, oversee individual mentoring and am an experienced mentor.For Lower Sixth students, I coordinate a diverse programme of short enrichment courses of Ethical Questions, Critical Thinking, and Skills, after which all students embark on an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), for which I am Director, having acted as personal mentor for many years. We encourage students to consider alternative routes to their Project, such as a performance/lecture or creation of an artefact. I enjoy the opportunity to act as roving consultant to a strong team of dedicated tutors and their tutees.I convene a weekly series of stimulating lectures from external speakers for U6 students. These cover issues in current affairs, ethical questions, careers and aspects of citizenship, and personal, social, health, and economic education.Recently I have designed, piloted and rolled out the Third Form Project, an in-house research skills course and independent dissertation for all students in Yr 9. Show less

• Head of Critical Thinking

  • Sep 2012 - Present

• Head of General Studies

  • Sep 2012 - Present

• Director of Extended and Higher Projects

  • Sep 2009 - Present

• Teacher of Physics

  • Sep 2004 - Present

  Also responsible for establishing an annual student visit to CERN and the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva, and for administration and judging of the L6 Film Project, which has resulted in 7 consecutive year of students receiving national awards for their work.

• Convenor of the Stephen Hawking Society

  • Sep 2005 - Aug 2012

  I established the Stephen Hawking Society in September 2005 to provide an annual series of 5 extra-curricular, high quality lectures on different disciplines in the sciences. SH is an alumnus and gave a memorable talk to the School in November 2006. Other noteable speakers have been Prof Sir Alec Jeffery (DNA fingerprinting), Prof Iain Stewart (BBC 'Earth: the Power of the Planet'), Simon Singh (broadcaster and writer), Prof Steve Jones (evolutionary biologist), Miranda Kretovnikoff (BBC 'Coast') and Nobel laureate Dr Tim Hunt. Each year the final talk is followed by a popular black tie dinner. Show less

• Coordinator for GCSE Sciences

  • Jan 2007 - Aug 2011



University of Warwick

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

  • Sep 2001 - May 2004

  Working with Prof D Phil Woodruff in the Department of Physics on medium-energy ion scattering studies of metal and alloy surfaces. Working with Prof D Phil Woodruff in the Department of Physics on medium-energy ion scattering studies of metal and alloy surfaces.



Kanagawa Institute of Technology

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Scientist

  • Aug 2001 - Aug 2001

  Working with Prof Hiroshi Onishi and Dr Akira Sasahara on anatase (TiO2) surface structure by NC-AFM and STM. Working with Prof Hiroshi Onishi and Dr Akira Sasahara on anatase (TiO2) surface structure by NC-AFM and STM.



Yale University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post-Doctoral Research Associate

  • Sep 1999 - Aug 2001

  Working with Prof Eric Altman in the Department of Chemical Engineering on structure and catalytic reactions on WO3, MoO3 and TiO2 (anatase) surfaces. Working with Prof Eric Altman in the Department of Chemical Engineering on structure and catalytic reactions on WO3, MoO3 and TiO2 (anatase) surfaces.