"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery." - Mark Van Doren, Professor and Poet
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Teaching
“His delivery of lectures was the best part of the module. I understood a lot more when he was providing the information”, “Will was brilliant – very good at engaging with us”, “By far the best lecturer in the module, clearly explaining everything”
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Teaching a "Policymaking for Ecologists" workshop at the British Ecological Society Undergraduate Summer School 2017.
Teaching is my greatest passion - I find it to be most rewarding thing I do. I am a Lecturer in Statistics at Cardiff University's School of Biosciences and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
I teach on numerous undergraduate, masters, and PhD level courses, focusing mainly on quantitative skills for biology and ecology students (statistics, data analysis, and R programming). I also contribute to the supervision of undergraduate, master's, and PhD research projects. I teach students in the field (particularly marine and intertidal sampling techniques) and in the lab (e.g. building telemetry tags), as well as in traditional classroom settings. Beyond academic teaching, I am also a qualified SCUBA diving and powerboating instructor and relish opportunities to teach these practical skills.
Experience
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Role
Lecturer in Statistics Tutor in Data Analysis and Statistics Lecturer (HE Level 6) Student Supervision PhD Demonstrator PhD Demonstrator PhD Mentor BSAC Advanced Instructor British Science Week Ambassador Camp Hazen YMCA Watersports Instructor Academic misc. Seafaring Bar Supervisor |
Description of Course(s) or Event(s)
BI1001 Skills for Science | BI1002 Structure and Function of Living Organisms | BI1003 Organisms and Environment | BI2135 Ecology Part A | BI2136 Ecology Part B | BI2431 Brain and Behaviour | BI3001 Bioscience Final Year Project | BI4001 Advanced Research Project | BIT010 Data Handling and Statistics | BIT050 Field Skills for Ecology and Conservation | BIT052 Assessing Biodiversity and Ecosystems | BIT053 Data Science | BIT054 Research Project | BIT055 Field Research and Placement | BIT101 Biocomputing and Big Data Handling | BIT107 Big Data Science BI1001 Skills for Science | BI1002 Structure and Function of Living Organisms | BI1003 Organisms and Environment | BI2135 Ecology Part A | BI2136 Ecology Part B | BI3001 Bioscience Final Year Project | BIT010 Data Handling and Statistics | BIT050 Field Skills for Ecology and Conservation | BIT052 Assessing Biodiversity and Ecosystems | BIT053 Data Science | BIT055 Field Research and Placement | BIT101 Biocomputing and Big Data Handling | BIT107 Big Data Science BIO318: Ecology of Marine Animals to 3rd Year Undergraduate students: Biologging - Acoustic tags and receivers, PTTs, Argos, GPS, Fastloc-GPS, VHF telemetry, Geolocators. Supervision of BSc and MSc dissertation students in tag development and production, data digitisation and analysis. Tutoring of PhD students in advanced statistical techniques. Full details in Supervision. BIOM25B Science Skills and Statistics | BIOM33B Movement Ecology Statistics Help Desk | BIZ300 Collective Animal Behaviour | BIO342 Sensory Ecology | BIO334 Advanced Data Analysis | BIO318 Ecology of Marine Animals | BIO252 Ecological Data Analysis | BIO228 Parasitology | BIO109 Core Skills for Biological Sciences | BIO106 Ecology and Animal Behaviour | BIO105 Animal Diversity, Form and Function | BIO103 Plants and Algae | BIO012 Foundation Biology | BIO013 Techniques in Ecology: An Introduction | BIO14 Research Skills for Biologists PhD mentor on week-long residential BES Summer School field course for ecology students. Mentor for 10 students and delivered workshops on policy, statistics, data analysis, etc. BSAC Advanced Instructor regularly teaching SCUBA theory and practical courses up to Advanced Diver grade. Boat Handling Instructor teaching powerboating to RYA level 2. Also teach First Aid, Oxygen Administration, Dive and Rescue Management. Super Science Sunday- fun activities at Swansea's National Waterfront Museum for children and parents including presentation on marine life in Swansea Bay Watersports instructor at a Summer Camp teaching sailing, windsurfing, canoeing, kayaking and swimming lessons Teach miscellaneous activities relating to my PhD studies on an ad-hoc basis including soldering electronics, bio-telemetry tag programming and design etc. Taught colleagues at Gower Coast Adventures a diverse range tasks from making bookings to crew techniques including rope work, sea survival and rescue. Taught miscellaneous tasks to colleagues including changing barrels, cashing up, stock rotations, etc. |
Audience
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Undergraduate and Postgraduate Undergraduate Postgraduate Postgraduate Undergraduate Undergraduate & A-level 16 - Adult 5-10 year olds 6-16 year olds Postgraduate Adult Adult |
