Teaching

I have experience tutoring across a broad range of topics in ecology and statistics.

My PhD course included 400 hours of teaching and demonstrating per year.

I gained formal training and experience in teaching, tutoring and mentoring during my career in the RAF. I taught engineering topics during my role as an aircraft mechanic instructor and taught various mountaineering and rescue skills as an instructor for the RAF Mountain Rescue Service.

Here are the modules that I’ve been involved with while teaching at the University of St Andrews:

First Year

Biology 1: Introduction to molecular and cellular biology. It covers cell diversity and the origins of life, cellular structures and fundamental processes.

Biology 2: Introduction to the diversity of life on Earth, addressing key elements of organismal and ecological aspects of life.

Second year

Research Methods in Biology

Invertebrate Zoology: Surveys the major invertebrate groups, emphasising the diversity of body plans while demonstrating how the common functional requirements such as feeding, reproduction, respiration and excretion are achieved.

Comparative Physiology: Covers the principles of physiological adaptation in a range of animals, including examples from all major taxa and from all habitats.

Ecology: Introduces basic concepts in population, behavioural and community ecology and how they relate to biodiversity.

Vertebrate Zoology: Explores the diversity of vertebrate animals, beginning with the closest relatives of vertebrates and the evolutionary origins of the group.

Evolutionary Biology: Gives an overview of the history and major principles of modern evolutionary biology.

Animal Behaviour

Third Year

Statistical and Quantitative Skills for Biologists

Aquatic Ecology field course to FSC Kindrogon

Ecosystems and Conservation

Animal and Plant Interactions

Terrestrial Zoology

Animal Behaviour: A Quantitative Approach

Fourth Year

Rewilding and Restoration Ecology