I have a Bachelor of Science with honours in cellular and molecular biology, human biology, drug design and synthesis, infectious disease, psychology and biological psychology.

My postgraduate qualification is a master’s in public health nutrition. This involved the study of human nutrition, clinical science, epidemiology, statistics and public health policy as well as behavioural change psychology.

I have tutored independently for a decade now. Including home schooling for my son during lockdowns. I usually begin by identifying any specific areas my new student needs help with on first contact. Followed collation of different types of resources I will use during our lesson.

My focus is always on finding the right learning style and tools for each student. For example, I created interactive online flashcard systems for the Scottish Curriculum. Which students can use to play games to solidify their learning or as good old fashioned flash cards.. I try to find videos and other materials that may help those finding a particular area challenging. When tutoring in person I may use safe and easy experiments or modelling to help those who learn best by doing. We all have our own learning style and sometimes finding the right format can be a true light bulb moment for students. I find coming to lessons with multiple different formats has really helped my earlier students grasp concepts they were struggling to understand with textbook learning.

I also have training and personal experience of helping those with neurodiversity learn in an encouraging and supportive way.