Teaching Qualifications:

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy [certificate]​
  
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), Module 2 Developing learning design: supporting learning. University of Southampton.
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), Module 1 Introduction to learning design: the practice of teaching. University of Southampton.
• Several one-day pedagogical courses for PGCAP Module 3 Enhancing academic practice: Research Project Management; Achieving Impact; The Research Funding Landscape; The anatomy of a grant; The lifecycle of a grant; Interactive lectures. University of Southampton.
• Introduction to University Teaching. Theoretical concepts and practical approaches to teaching and learning in HE. Teaching Support Centre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. [certificate]
• Several one-day teaching courses at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL): The art of questioning: teaching with clickers (or not); Alternatives to Powerpoint; Teaching Toolkit: teaching skills for doctoral assistants; Effective Interactive Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; Effective Lecturing; Effective ICT in Teaching: Teaching Toolkit II; Flipping a Class; Course Design. [certificates]

As a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, I am currently involved in teaching on:

• BIOL1001 Experimental and Field Ecology [Community survey, plant traits: lecture)
• BIOL1020 Core Skills in the Life Sciences
• BIOL2008 Quantitative Methods in Biological and Environmental Science
• BIOL2041 New Forest Field course
• BIOL3068 Fluxes, Cycles, and Microbial Communities
• BIOL6069 Advanced Field Research Project
• Biology, Ecology, Zoology 2nd year tutorials

PhD supervision: 

• ​Najam e Sahar: SPITFIRE DTP Eat in, or Eat out? The role of plant communities for microbial metabolic activity
• Harry Shepherd: SPITFIRE DTP Using plant-soil feedbacks to enhance ecosystem restoration and biodiversity conservation
• Magda Steele: IfLS Plant-Microbe interactions in a changing climate

• Dan Turner: Linking above- and below-ground food webs and ecosystem functioning across a tropical forest modification gradient; Co-supervisor
• Justine Gay-des-Combes, Improving slash-and-burn agriculture in Central Menabe. Graduated: 27 October 2017. Supervisor/daily supervisor

Past Teaching Experience:

• ENV-220 Introductions in Ecology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• ENV-596 Design Project + SIE project, EPFL, Switzerland 
• MasterMind, Environmental Biology programme, Utrecht University (UU), The Netherlands
• B-B3TREK11 Tropical Ecology and Climate Change, UU, The Netherlands 
• Introductions in Biology tutorials, UU, The Netherlands
• Geography Tutorials + Research Placement, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
• GEO-2141 Processes in the environment: ecology and soil science, UU, BSc level

Teaching material:
Non-comprehensive Plant Identification Guide (a quick help guide for students in BIOL1001 and BIOL2008 to speed -up with plant identification)
​Lecture on plant community trait ecology, introduction to a field practical (by Digital Learning University of Southampton)
GEO-2141: Robroek BJM & Smit C (2009). Reader Ecology 2009; Robroek BJM (2008). Reader Ecology 2008