I am interested in science education and in the education of science teachers.  My particular areas of interest include:

• Meaningful incorporation of issues to do with sustainability into science teaching and learning;
• Looking at how low / no cost practicals can be used to help increase children's exposure to scientific thinking and methods in schools that have no laboratory facilities;
• Looking at how practical activities can be used to help develop pre-service teachers' subject knowledge and pedagogies in low income countries;
• Development of thinking about pre and in-service teachers' understanding of issues to do with social justice;
• The relationship between pre-service teachers' sense of agency and identity and the route they follow into teaching;
• Factors affecting science teacher recruitment and retention.