Teaching and Supervision

Lecturer, University of Liverpool September 2023 - Present 

• Biomedical Sciences (C130) programme, year 2 lead. 

• Module organiser for LIFE221 (The Immune System in Health and Disease), 

• Module organiser for LIFE365 (Advanced Skills in Biological and Medical Sciences) 

• Module organiser for LIFE204 (Endocrine and Neuro-physiology). 

• Teacher for LIFE227 (Techniques in Cell Biology). 

• Supervisor for dissertation projects for LIFE363 (Research Project) 

• Academic Advisor for LIFE223 (Essential Skills for the Life Sciences 2).

• Year 2 departmental disability contact (DDC) for students with surname A-H.

Lecturer in Medical Sciences,  Bangor University, 
In 2020, I moved into teaching. I worked for three and half years on the graduate entry medicine programme (MBBCh) at Bangor University in partnership with Cardiff University, developing medical education in North Wales. Students learnt in a case-based way, and I facilitated case-based learning discussions, I had oversight of three "cases" in North Wales, in particular one case was on my specialism of cancer. I oversaw "student selected components" (SSCs) for students in year 2, 3 and 4 of the programmes while I worked there. You can find out more about the course here,  and watch this video here. Read the original news about the medical school here.

Teaching whilst a Postdoc at the University of Liverpool

• Supervision of MRes, MSc, and BSc student projects.

During my time as a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Liverpool, I supervised students in the laboratory - including Max Lyon, an intercalating medical student, for a MRes rotation. I also supervised intercalating MRes medical students: Prashant Aggarwal and James Baker who worked on the Biology of Dying project. All three of these students were able to contribute to journal publications.

Over the years, I have helped to supervise several undergraduate and master students lab projects: generating project ideas, teaching them techniques and helping them to write up.

2019-2020

Assisted Prof. Chris Probert in supervising MRes students Prashant Aggarwal and James Baker (intercalating medical students). See some photos of them and their posters here.

2017

I had the great joy of supervising Clinical MRes student Max Lyon on his project 'Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Rheumatoid Arthritis.' Max was an excellent student and I wouldn't hesitate to give him a reference! He won 1st prize for his poster in his rotation with us! See some photos of him and his poster here.

2013

BSc physiology project Honours Project "Expression of PTEN in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia." Ivana Rajkovic

2009-2010

BSc pharmacology project Honours Project "Analysis of Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) – stimulated protein expression in human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HDMECs) using antibody arrays."  O.M.Rudakowski

2008-2009

I assisted Monday Ogese, a Nigerian MRes student to settle in the lab, and helped him with his project. He is now working a postdoctoral researcher for Astra Zeneca at the University of Liverpool.

• "Teaching for Researchers"

 During my postdoctoral research I undertook a "Teaching for Researchers" course and was awarded an Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Award (AFHEA).

• Tutorial on “Biomarkers”

• Tutorial on “Biomarkers” for Cancer Genetics module, LIFE760, MSc Biological sciences (Coordinator: Dr. Violaine See).