My teaching delivers education-led impact through the integration of foundational mathematics, thermodynamics, catalytic reactors, laboratory-based learning and professional practice, with ethics and sustainability embedded as threshold concepts across the curriculum. Through project-, context- and inquiry-based pedagogies, students engage with authentic industrial, societal and environmental challenges, strengthening conceptual understanding, experimental competence and professional judgement while explicitly aligning learning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

This practice is underpinned by a coherent programme of scholarship focused on widening participation, accessible learning design and active pedagogies, generating impact across outreach, recruitment and student transition into higher education. My work supports higher-education preparedness, particularly in mathematically intensive disciplines, and contributes to a sustainable participation pipeline into chemical engineering through inclusive curriculum design, laboratory innovation and school-to-university engagement. The reach and significance of this education-led impact is evidenced through adoption beyond my institution, national dissemination, and sustained influence on teaching practice, and has been recognised through a National Teaching Fellowship and the Royal Society of Chemistry Excellence in Higher Education Prize.

Principal Fellow of Advance HE PFHEA (2026)

RSC Excellence in Higher Education Prize (2025)

National Teaching Fellow (2025)

Senior Fellow of Advance HE SFHEA (2023)

Professional Development Course for External Examiners, Advance HE (2022)

Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET, 2021)

Fellow Higher Education Academy (2021)

Chartered Chemist (CChem) Royal Society of Chemistry (2015)

Chartered Scientist (CSci), Royal Society of Chemistry/Science Council (2015)

Member of Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC, 2011)

PhD in Catalysis, Queen's University Belfast (2010)

BSc (Hons) in Chemistry, Queen's University Belfast (2007)

Member of Queen's University Belfast Senate

Member of Queen's University Belfast Academic Council

Member of Queen's University Belfast Planning, Finance and Resources Committee (2022-2026)

Member of Queen's University Belfast People and Culture Committee

Personal Tutor to Chemical Engineering Students

EPS Mental Health Ambassador

Chemical Engineering Lab Coordinator

CHE2101 Chemical Process Thermodynamics Module Coordinator

Member of College Advisory Group for College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise

Current Academic Year:

• Chemical Engineering Labs Coordinator (CHE2101, CHE2103, CHE2104, CHE2107, CHE2108)
• Introduction to Chemical Engineering (CHE1202)
• Mathematics for Chemical Engineers II (CHE1204, Module Coordinator)
• Practical Skills for Chemical Engineering (CHE1209, Module Coordinator)
• Chemical Process Thermodynamics (CHE2101, Module Coordinator)
• Chemical Reactor Design and Process Integration (CHE3101)
• Research Project (CHE4012)
• Hydrogen System Design and Practice (CHE7206/7306)
• Research Project in Net Zero Engineering (CHE7207/CHE7208, 2nd Marker)

Previous Academic Years:

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

• Sustainable Energy Systems (CHE 4105)
• Environmental Engineering (CHE 4004)
• Design Project 2 (CHE2012)
• Chemical Engineering Design (CHE2106)
• Introduction to Reaction Engineering (CHE2002)
• Mathematics for Engineers (CHE1006)
• Chemistry Laboratory Demonstrating for Physical Chemistry (Levels 1 and 2)
• Environmental Engineering Design (CHE4108) (2^nd Marker)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: 

• Final Year Individual Project Lecture Series (MEE 4040/MEE 3030/AER 4002)
• Thermodynamics (MEE1018)

Knowledge Transfer Workshop:

• Catalyst Characterisation Technique Development (Post Graduate, 2013)
• Kinetics of Transient Processes (Post Graduate, 2013).