Teaching & 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, have an idea for an outreach/teaching project you'd like to collaborate on, or would like me to write a freelance article about science/maths, please reach out to me by email.

This page details what courses I taught on at the undergraduate level, and various outreach projects I have been a part of.

Undergraduate Teaching

I was previously a contracted postgraduate teacher at Newcastle University. This included running problems classes or lectures, marking student work, supporting remote/hybrid courses, and NUMBAS implementation of assessments. Below are some of the specific projects and courses I worked on.

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)

• BSc individual projects (3 students, 2023-2024, achieved 1st and 2:1 grades in the projects)

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)

Outreach Projects

2023

• PARTNERS summer school

Delivered lectures on maths and physics for the summer students, designed assessment questions.

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.

• • PARTNERS summer school

Delivered lectures on maths and physics for the summer students, designed assessment questions.

2020

• Public Outreach Volunteer (Oxford Stargazing)

Participated in running events to increase scientific literacy, reaching thousands of children and adults each year.

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.

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)