Dr Charles Baily - Senior Lecturer
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Charlie is currently a Lecturer. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Colorado, and was involved with the ongoing transformation of advanced undergraduate electromagnetism courses taught there. His graduate studies at CU focused on the changes in students' epistemic and ontological perspectives as they make the transition from learning classical physics to learning quantum physics; and the impact on student thinking of various instructional approaches with respect to interpretive themes in modern physics courses. He is also interested in the historical development and physical interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Charlie is currently teaching PH2011 Physics 2A (Special Relativity), PH2012 Physics 2B (Quantum Physics), and PH3007 (Electromagnetism); he also supervises student projects in PER each year.
Dr Paul Cruickshank - Lecturer
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As a Lecturer at St Andrews, Paul is developing and teaching lectures and practical courses. He is an Advisor of Studies for first and second year students. With a keen interest in teaching throughout his post-graduate and post-doctoral career in instrumentation for high-field electron paramagnetic resonance, Paul is now active in outreach in physics and electronics, and particularly interested in the use of hobbyist embedded platforms (mbed, Arduino) in the teaching of programming skills and for lab instrumentation and teaching demonstrations.
Paul is teaching across a range of levels, both in lectures and in the lab. He teaches the physics part of AS1002 The Physical Universe, a largely non-mathematical survey course which covers a broad range of physics and astronomy; PH2011 Physics 2A (Thermal Physics); PH3074 Electronics and PH4026 Signals and Information. He is also involved in second-year electronics and programming labs and honours practicals in low temperature measurements and signal recovery.
Dr Lucy Hadfield - Lecturer
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Lucy has been at University of St Andrews since April 2010. She is the coordinator for the University's Physics & Astronomy Widening Access (Gateway) Programme. Lucy attained a PhD and conducted post-doctoral research in stellar physics at Sheffield University and worked as a teacher of physics for students aged 13 - 18. Lucy is particularly interested in the developments in introductory undergraduate teaching, as well as enhancing of teaching by using the outputs of recent physics education research. As the co-ordinator of the Physics Gateway programme she is also studying factors that affect access to higher education while working closely with the University's admissions department to develop widening access to St Andrews.
At present Lucy teaches an element of PH1012 Physics 1B, where she lectures on rotational motion. She is also responsible for several modules exclusive to the Gateway programme designed to improve problem solving, laboratory and study skills as well as helping to develop basic physics understanding (PH1502, PH1503). These flexible modules are tailored each year to the 15 students who enrol on the Gateway Programme and are based on current peer instruction and problem based learning material developed by leading educators.
Dr Antje Kohnle - Senior Lecturer
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Her main interests focus on the research-based development of interactive simulations and activities for the learning and teaching of quantum mechanics at university level. She leads the QuVis St Andrews Quantum Mechanics Visualisation project (www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics/quvis), and recently developed a suite of 17 simulations and accompanying activities for the Institute of Physics New Quantum Curriculum project (quantumphysics.iop.org). Research interests include how different visualisations influence students' models of physical situations, the stability of concepts across different contexts, the teaching of interpretive and conceptual aspects of quantum mechanics, research-based resource development for student difficulties in quantum mechanics and optimising simulations and activities to promote engaged exploration and learning. She is also interested in student-generated content in quantum mechanics courses.
Antje teaches courses across a wide range of levels, including our Group Discovery Project at level one (PH1012), PH3061 Quantum Mechanics 1, PH3062 Quantum Mechanics 2, and PH4040/4041 Nuclear and Particle Physics.
Dr Irina Leonhardt - Associate Lecturer
e-mail: il4@st-andrews.ac.uk | Full contact details
Irina's emphasis in teaching lies in improving the maths skills of her students. As part of this, she provides a weekly online maths quiz for second-year students.
Irina teaches the Gateway course PH1501 Mathematics for Physicists 1A, the Maths Revision part of PH2011 Physics 2A and the statistical part of PH3012 Thermal & Statistical Physics.
Dr Bruce Sinclair - Reader
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Bruce is the School's Director of Teaching, and he has chaired the Higher Education Group of the
UK Institute of Physics. He has contributed to developing simulations used in teaching photonics and quantum mechanics. He was one of those who first introduced "clickers" to the School's teaching activities. Bruce has a broad interest in student learning of physics, and how this School might best exploit the results of physics education research. He is particularly interested in ways in which students can engage actively in their learning.
Bruce teaches first year PH1011 Physics 1A (Waves and Optics), second year PH2012 Physics 2B (Electricity and Magnetism), third and fourth year photonics labs (PH3101 and PH4105), third year PH3014 Transferable Skills for Physicists, fifth year PH5005 Laser Physics 2, MSc laser physics PH5180, postgraduate photonics lab PH5181 and projects.