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Alison Foster: a Chemist in the World of Plants. A science, biology article resource
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Alison Foster: a Chemist in the World of Plants

Alison Foster has combined her education in Chemistry with her love of plants to engage in some exciting projects at the University of Oxford Botanic Gardens. This Catalyst article gives a profile of her career choices, and introduces a public engagement activity called Chemistry in the Garden. Alison began her career in the pharmaceutical…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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James Seymour: Product Manager. A science, biology teacher guidance resource
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James Seymour: Product Manager

Produced by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), these materials look at the work of product manager, James Seymour. Through investigating organic food crops and horticulture, students gain a greater understanding of the career opportunities available in plant biology. James is a manager in a herb growing company and uses…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Julian Ma: Pharmaceuticals from Plants Researcher. A science, biology teacher guidance resource
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Julian Ma: Pharmaceuticals from Plants Researcher

Produced by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), these materials look at the work of the plant biologist, Julian Ma. Through seeing how natural and genetically-modified plants can produce medicines, students gain a greater understanding of the career opportunities available in plant biology. Julian is Professor of Molecular…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Teacher guidance
Jonathan Kendon: Conservation Biotechnologist. A science, biology teacher guidance resource
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Jonathan Kendon: Conservation Biotechnologist

Produced by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), these materials look at the work of conservation biotechnologist, Jonathan Kendon. Through investigating the effects of human activity on the environment, students gain a greater understanding of the career opportunities available in ecology and plant biology. Jonathan is a…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Amy Eycott: Landscape Ecologist. A science, biology teacher guidance resource
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Amy Eycott: Landscape Ecologist

Produced by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), these materials look at the work of landscape ecologist, Amy Eycott. Through investigating habitats and biodiversity, students gain a greater understanding of the career opportunities available in ecology and biology. Amy works for the Forestry Commission. Her work includes…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Teacher guidance
Jess Chu: Plant Science Researcher. A science, biology teacher guidance resource
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Jess Chu: Plant Science Researcher

Produced by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), these materials look at the work of plant research scientist, Jess Chu. Through investigating vitamin C in plants, students gain a greater understanding of the career opportunities available in plant biology. Jess is looking into the anticancer properties of the rainforest plants.…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Teacher guidance
Beverley Glover: Plant Research Scientist. A science, biology teacher guidance resource
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Beverley Glover: Plant Research Scientist

Produced by Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS), these materials look at the work of plant research scientist, Beverley Glover. Through activities based around plant adaptations, students gain a greater understanding of the career opportunities available in plant biology. Beverley Glover is a lecturer and research scientist…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Teacher guidance
Careers from Biology. A careers video resource
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Careers from Biology

Produced by the Wellcome Trust, this issue of the Big Picture explores some of the careers that are available to students who have studied biological science. It goes beyond the doctors, vets and other science-related careers typically described to include people working in a wide variety of sectors. Case studies include the work…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Case Studies on Education-Industry Partnerships. A science research resource
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Case Studies on Education-Industry Partnerships

From CIEC Promoting Science, this information booklet is useful for those wishing to develop successful partnerships between schools and local science-based industries. It is a collection of papers that describe how different groups have encountered and handled major issues and problems while developing their education-industry programmes.…

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  • Publication year: 1990 - 1999
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Industrial Encounters: Good Practice for School Links. A science teacher guidance resource
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Industrial Encounters: Good Practice for School Links

From CIEC Promoting Science, this guide aims to help schools and science-based companies make the best use of their opportunities to liaise together. It concentrates upon using link activities to enrich aspects of the school science curriculum but there are many principles in the guide, with a more general application. There…

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  • Publication year: 1990 - 1999
  • Teacher guidance
Paul Nurse. A science activity sheet resource
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Paul Nurse

Paul Nurse was one of the scientists featured in the Acclaim project in 2001. Acclaim was a collaboration between the Royal Society and the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University. Paul Nurse is one of the UK's foremost biological scientists. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) for his work on…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Francesca Happé. A science information sheet resource
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Francesca Happé

Francesca Happé was one of the scientists featured in the Acclaim project in 2001. Acclaim was a collaboration between the Royal Society and the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University. Francesca Happé's research interests included the normal and abnormal development of processes that underlie…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Frances Ashcroft. A science activity sheet resource
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Frances Ashcroft

Frances Ashcroft was one of the scientists featured in the Acclaim project in 2001. Acclaim was a collaboration between the Royal Society and the Centre for Science Education at Sheffield Hallam University. At the time, Frances Ashcroft was the Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University of Oxford. Her research…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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How Science Works: Asthma on the Run. A science video resource
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How Science Works: Asthma on the Run

From Teachers TV, this takes a look into the research of biochemist Ceri Harrop. She specialises in respiratory medicine and developing new treatments for people with breathing difficulties. As part of Ceri's research, she meets with 400m runner Wayne Ashall who suffers from asthma. Ceri and Wayne carry out a spirometry…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Careers in Biochemistry. A science, biology article resource
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Careers in Biochemistry

This Catalyst article looks at young people working in biochemistry, detailing how they got to where they are and what their job involves. This article is from Catalyst: Secondary Science Review 2011, Volume 22, Issue 2. Catalyst is a science magazine for students aged 14-19 years. Annual subscriptions to print copies of the…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Where Next?. A science, biology article resource
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Where Next?

This Catalyst article introduces Tom Denbigh who describes how he has worked as a volunteer on scientific projects to gain experience before his degree course. This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2011, Volume 22, Issue 1. Catalyst is a science magazine for students aged 14-19 years. Annual subscriptions to print…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Club Activity Pack. A science, biology information sheet resource
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Club Activity Pack

These resources from Planet Science provide a series of pen pictures of a scientist and a related experiment which can be used at home or as science club activities. Activity A: Great Social life: Toyin Solanke The geologist Toyin Solanke provides the inspiration for a simple activity demonstrating how oil is formed and how it…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Pharmaceutical Industry: Frequently Asked Questions. A science, biology interactive resource
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Pharmaceutical Industry: Frequently Asked Questions

From the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), this interactive resource halps to answer questions that students have about the production of medicines and the careers available in the pharmaceutical industry. There is a wide variety of questions on topics as varied as: • The role of scientists in…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
  • Interactive resource
Unravelling the Genetic Code. A mathematics information sheet resource
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Unravelling the Genetic Code

This Mathematics Matters case study, from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, looks at how mathematicians' understanding of knots can help unravel potentially fatal knots in DNA molecules. Understanding how to manipulate tangles of DNA could help us create new treatments for diseases, so mathematicians are working…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Stats in Your Genes. A mathematics information sheet resource
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Stats in Your Genes

This Mathematics Matters case study, from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, discusses the importance of statistics and computing to developments in medical research. Sequencing the human genome was a fantastic achievement, but it was only the beginning. Now, statisticians are coming up with new methods to sift through…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Modelling an Epidemic Emergency. A mathematics information sheet resource
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Modelling an Epidemic Emergency

This Mathematics Matters case study looks at how mathematicians work with epidemiologists to understand the spread of infections and mitigate their effects. Epidemics can threaten the lives of both humans and animals, so it is essential that we react swiftly to any outbreaks. Mathematicians play a key role in assessing the risks…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Keeping Hearts Pumping. A mathematics information sheet resource
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Keeping Hearts Pumping

This Mathematics Matters case study, from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, looks at how mathematics modelling can aid investigations into the circulatory system. Blood-related diseases can seriously harm patients’ quality of life and even lead to death. Many of these diseases are caused by problems with the…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Fighting Infections with Symmetry. A mathematics information sheet resource
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Fighting Infections with Symmetry

This Mathematics Matters case study looks at how mathematicians are aiding the fight against viruses. Many viruses have a symmetrical structure made from basic building blocks, and biologists have struggled to explain some of the more detailed shapes. Now mathematicians are using complex theories of symmetry to reveal these viral…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Careers in Ecology. A science, biology article resource
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Careers in Ecology

A Catalyst article explaining how scientists with qualifications in ecology and environmental science play an increasingly important role in assessing the human impact on the Earth. Ecology is the branch of biology that looks at how organisms, plants and animals, depend on each other and their surroundings. It also looks at how humans…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Case Study: Horticulture. A careers video resource
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Case Study: Horticulture

Produced for Future Morph, these resources include a video and a classroom activity. In the video, two First Diploma in Horticulture students show how they repot plants and describe the display they helped to produce for the Devon County show. A classroom activity encourages students to clone a plant by taking cuttings. A close…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Case Study: Sports Science. A careers video resource
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Case Study: Sports Science

Produced for Future Morph, these materials contain a video clip showing a student talking about his National Diploma course in Sport and Exercise Science. He describes how science, physiology and psychology are important aspects of his studies as well as the careers his course can lead on to. There is also classroom activity which…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Case Study: Animal Care. A careers video resource
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Case Study: Animal Care

Produced for Future Morph, these resources consist of a short video and an accompanying classroom activity. In the video, a First Diploma in Animal Care student describes her work on the course. She illustrates how the course gives experience relevent to working in a range of environments including farming, zoos and small animal…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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The Many Faces of Biology. A science article resource
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The Many Faces of Biology

This Catalyst article takes a look at the great variety of biology-related courses in universities. There are over 1,400 different university biology courses, choosing the right one for the individual student requires care. The article includes case studies about past students and the careers they have been able to pursue following…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Leo Garcia: PhD Student at the Institute of Cancer Research. A science, physics video resource
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Leo Garcia: PhD Student at the Institute of Cancer Research

This STEMNET video describes the work of Leo Garcia, a PhD student at the Institute of Cancer Research working in the field of ultrasound elastography. In particular he is researching the use of this method in brain surgery to help guide the surgeon to find tumours and diagnose cancer. In the video, Leo describes how the ultrasound…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Medical Physics: Dr Heather Williams. A science, biology information sheet resource
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Medical Physics: Dr Heather Williams

This STEMNET resource describes the background and career of STEM Ambassador Heather Williams, a senior medical physicist in a hospital nuclear medicine department. Heather found that studying physics at school sparked a particular interest in radiation and its applications in medicine. A key part of her role is researching new…

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  • Publication year: 2010 to date
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Science. A science video resource
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Science

This Teachers TV video illustrates a range of techniques to help students think about careers in STEM professions. Using a context of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), the school nurse talks to a Year Eight class about her work before students consider the various professionals involved in IVF. The students perform a role play which…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Future Morph: Physiotherapist. A science video resource
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Future Morph: Physiotherapist

In this Future Morph video, Bristol City Football Club physiotherapist Nick Dawes talks about how he became a physiotherapist. He describes the qualifications and training needed to become a physiotherapist. He describes the challenges he meets during his work which includes the treatment of injuries, player rehabilitation and responsibilities…

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  • Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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