Dr Sian Howard Engineering and Physical Sciences Teaching Fellow Contact details Emails.howard.3@bham.ac.uk AddressPriorsfieldEdgbaston Park RoadUniversity 麻豆精选 Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK I joined the Birmingham International Academy in 2022 and I teach on the Engineering & Physical Sciences Foundation Pathway. Qualifications PGCE (Physics & Mathematics) with QTS, Oxford Brookes University (2015) C.E.L.T.A, Oxford Study Centres (2004) PhD in Solid State Theoretical Chemistry, University 麻豆精选 (1990) BSc Hons (1st Class) Physics with Astrophysics, University 麻豆精选 (1986) Biography My vocation is mainly Chemistry lecturing and research. I was an EPSRC Advanced Fellow at Cardiff University from 1993-1998 and went on to hold Senior Lectureships in Chemistry at the University of Cardiff (1998-2004) where I was Director of the MSc in Molecular Modelling; and at the University of South Australia (2005-2008) where I coordinated the first-year undergraduate Chemistry programmes. I then worked as a Quality Manager in the UK Logistics Industry. I have worked in Poland, in a joint research project with Warsaw University spanning 10 years; and in Germany, where I taught Business English for three years and also worked as a German-English technical translator. These days, I am focused on teaching. I’m a qualified secondary teacher and spent about four years teaching Science in UK secondary schools, followed by four years of teaching Chemistry and Maths on the Pharmacy foundation programme at De Montfort University, Leicester. Teaching LF Stats & Data LF Mathematics I LF Mathematics II LF Introductory Inorganic Chemistry LF Science & Engineering Labs Publications I have 65 research publications (H-index 25) and here is a link to most of them: