Chemistry: Careers Programme: (CP15) Teaching in a Range of School Environments (1L)

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Drs Jo Haywood (Parkside Federation), Alexandra Cardwell (St Mary’s School, Cambridge) and Robert Snell (Charterhouse)

Speaker Biographies: Alexandra Cardwell grew up in Switzerland and obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Geneva, followed by her PhD in Organic Chemistry at UCLA with Mike Jung. In 2004, she moved to Cambridge to post-doc for Steven Ley, during which time she supervised undergraduates, was a Teaching Bye-Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, taught one of the graduate lecture courses in Organometallic Chemistry and managed Steven Ley's lab. Having enjoyed teaching and youth work, in 2007 she joined the PGCE course at Homerton, then taught for 1 year in St Neots followed by four years at The Netherhall School. Since September 2013, she has been teaching at St Mary's School, an all girls Catholic independent school, in Cambridge.

Jo Haywood is a Chemistry and Science Teacher at Parkside Federation, who trained by doing her PGCE in 2011-12 at Homerton. Before that, she did a PhD with Andrew Wheatley, which followed on from studying Natural Sciences at Peterhouse. Throughout her PhD, Jo did a large number of supervisions and examples classes, which was what persuaded her that teaching was for her.

Having completed his undergraduate studies at the Universities of Exeter and Bath, Robert Snell worked for a year in Singapore on alkaloid synthesis with Rod Bates. He went on to complete a D.Phil at the University of Oxford with Michael Willis in the application of desymmetrization on the synthesis of natural products. Robert then moved to Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher working with Matthew Gaunt on the application of sequential C-H activation in natural product synthesis. In 2013, he took a post as a teacher of chemistry at Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey.

Postgraduates in the Department of Chemistry

Number of sessions: 1

Lecture

1 hour