Over the course of my undergraduate degree, masters degree, and now my PhD, I've been taught by a lot of people with a lot of different styles. This has really fine-tuned my approach, and in my experience what works best is being very informal. Our brains work way better without the sort of social stress that comes with formality, for you and for me. That means I want to be asked questions, and I want to be interrupted if an analogy isn't quite working or if a diagram doesn't quite make sense.

In terms of experience, day to day my PhD is mostly microbiology with a fair amount of immunology thrown in, which means I also have to know about respiration and a bit of biochemistry here and there too. But my undergraduate degree was a very broad biological sciences degree, so I also have a solid background in plants, ecology, environmental science, even a module of forensic science.

As part of my PhD I get to supervise/teach undergraduate and masters students which I have really enjoyed, and in the past I've helped out a few younger cousins/family friends as well. One has just finished their undergraduate degree in Biology and got a 2:1.

I do my lessons online in the evenings, and start off by identifying the areas we want to address and in what ways we can individualise our plan to the ways you find easiest to learn. From there we can start to work out a structure.