I work with schools and community groups at Life Science Centre in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. I have an academic background in geology and palaeontology, but now work in a role that allows me to share my love of science more broadly with a wide range of audiences. <\/p>\n
One day I might be running a lab-based workshop about climate change for a group of teenagers, while the next I could be taking a class of 10-year-olds on a trip to the Moon in our inflatable planetarium. As well as writing and delivering hands-on workshops, I also co-ordinate some of Life's funded programmes, which allow us to reach schools in disadvantaged parts of our region.<\/p>\n
I've previously worked in outdoor education with the North Pennines National Landscape and UNESCO Global Geopark, and volunteer with a Yorkshire-based STEM outreach group called Fossils in t'Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I work with schools and community groups at Life Science Centre in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. I have an academic background in geology and palaeontology, but now work in a role that allows me to share my love of science more broadly with a wide range of audiences. One day I might be running a lab-based workshop… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,59,120],"tags":[],"location":[1153,30],"class_list":["post-13739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geology","category-paleontology","category-stem-communication","location-newcastle","location-united-kingdom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13739"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flocation&post=13739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}