Outreach
I am passionate about scientific outreach and education. I have previous experience presenting scientific material to both children and adults in the context of school talks, science museum presenting, public science outreach events, and scientific talks. I was previously a regular author for the Astrobites collaboration, which writes daily posts on current astronomy research. If you'd like me to give a talk about something, or if you have an idea for an outreach/teaching project you'd like to collaborate on, please reach out to me by email.
Written work
2021
A universe of pancakes. Astrobites article about Zel'Dovich's classic 1970 paper on gravitational instability.
Expanding the cosmology toolbox: studying gravity on all scales. Astrobites article based on two papers.
How Fuzzy is the Universe? Astrobites article based on this paper.
A cosmic footrace: testing the speed(s) of light with FRBs. Astrobites article based on this paper.
Moving conferences online: tips from the organisers of Cosmology from Home. Astrobites article interviewing the organisers of Cosmology from Home 2021, an entirely online conference.
Outreach talks and videos
2021
Cosmology from Home 2021
Livestream recapping what's happened at the conference and a Reddit AMA with other attendees, where we livestreamed our discussions of the questions.
2020
The Skeleton of Our Universe
A public talk to the Newcastle Astronomical Society, delivered virtually over Zoom.
Live-stream at Cosmology from Home 2020
Several attendants of the Cosmology from Home Conference hosted a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) and streamed discussions and answers to YouTube.
Projects
2023
Delivered lectures on maths and physics for the summer students.
2022
Space day at the Great North Museum
Presented to year 12 students about astronomy as part of British Science Week.
2021
Transition project Maths and Physics
Created sets of notes and exercises to aid incoming maths and physics undergraduates with the transition to university level mathematics and physics.
Delivered lectures on maths and physics for the summer students.
2020
Public Outreach Volunteer (Oxford Stargazing)
Participated in running events to increase scientific literacy, reaching thousands of children and adults each year.
Teaching
Supporting modules at Newcastle University. This includes running problems classes or lectures, marking student work, supporting remote/hybrid courses, and NUMBAS implementation of assessments.
Project supervision
Michael Armstrong (MMath project at Newcastle University, 2022-2023, now PhD student at Northumbria University)
(co-supervision of) Ghazal Ramzan Ali (MMath project at Newcastle University, 2021-2022)
2023-2024
Year 1 Introductory Astrophysics (lectures, problem sets, marking)
Year 1 Introductory Calculus (problems classes)
Year 1 Introductory Algebra (lecture notes)
2022-2023
Year 1 Introductory Astrophysics (problem sets, marking)
Year 3 Radiative Processes and High Energy Astro (marking)
Year 3 Classical Fields (marking)
Year 3 Cosmology (problem sets, marking)
Year 4 General Relativity (problems class, lecture cover)
2020-2021
Year 1 Dynamics (lectures, problems classes)
Year 1 Multivariable Calculus & ODEs (marking)
Year 2 Statistical Mechanics (problems classes)
Year 3 Quantum Mechanics (problems classes)
Awards
2022 Art of Science competition (2nd place) (Awarded by the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, and Engineering, Newcastle University)
2021 Postgraduate Prize for Achievements in Outreach (Awarded by the School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics at Newcastle University)