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  Prof Susan Anderson

  RMS Honorary Secretary for Education

  University of Nottingham
  Susan Anderson has been involved in microscopy for over 20 years. She established and led the Advanced Microscopy Unit at the University of Nottingham for ten years and is especially interested in electron microscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy and correlative microscopy. She joined the RMS Materials Science Section in 2006 and helped to organise several symposia on the use of microscopy in biomaterials and tissue engineering. She was delighted to be invited to be the Honorary Secretary of Outreach and Education in 2009 and has established a Committee of talented and enthusiastic microscopists and educationalists to drive forward the strategy of the newly established Outreach and Education section. Susan has been involved in Education for many years. She has been a volunteer at her local primary school and has encouraged many primary and secondary school visits to the Advanced Microscopy Unit over the years. In addition, she is involved with a creative science programme which encourages creativity in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and maths) in a space managed by and for young people. Through this she has been lucky to be involved in working with many primary and secondary schools to improve science provision.

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  Mr Owen Green

  Outreach & Education Section Secretary

  Owen has worked in the Earth Science Department at the University of Oxford since 1989. He initially, trained and worked in London Colleges as a Geological Technician and Curator of Geological Collections. He is currently a member of both the Engineering and Physical Sciences and Outreach Committees, and has been a co-convenor of the Geo-materials meeting (September 2014), and organised Outreach events on volcanos and mountain building. He has been a member of the Learning Zone team at mmc and an occasional contributor to infocus. His research interests include sample preparation techniques, particularly those involving applications in light and scanning electron microscopy. He is currently undertaking a 2nd edition of A manual of Practical Laboratory and Field Techniques in Palaeobiology (2001, published by Kluwer, now Springer). Other micropalaeontological research includes a study of the last shallow marine carbonate-platform foraminifera of the Tethyan Ocean recorded in rocks from the NW Himalayas 50.5 million years ago as India crashed into Asia, Neoproterozoic agglutinated foraminifera from NW Europe (Avalonia and Baltica), and contextual studies on the world’s oldest (3.5 billion years old) putative microfossils from Western Australia

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  Dr Alex Ball

  Natural History Museum
  Alex is the Electron Beam Laboratory Manager in the Science Facilities Department at the Natural History Museum.

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  Prof Susan Brooks

  RMS-Wiley Book Series Editor

  Oxford Brookes University
  Susan has been involved with the RMS since winning an RMS prize for young scientists giving their first public scientific talk in 1985. Her research uses different types of microscopy -- standard light and fluorescence, confocal and electron microscopy - to study cancer biology. She is passionate about science education and teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate cancer and cell biology courses. She has been an organiser of the RMS Cell Imaging Techniques course since 1996. She has authored and edited half a dozen books and is the RMS-Wiley handbook series editor.

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  Dr Peter Evennett HonFRMS

  University of Leeds (retired)
  Peter lectured in Zoology at the University of Leeds, and for many years has taught light and electron microscopy for RMS courses and elsewhere. He has been closely involved with the RMS's educational activities, and the project for encouraging the use of microscopes in primary schools. Together with Chris Hammond he helps provide funds for this scheme by recycling old microscopes, and selling them to amateur microscopists. He is particularly interested in helping microscopists understand in simple terms the basic principles of how their instruments work. Peter has been a member of the RMS for many years, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Society.

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  Dr Chris Hammond

  University of Leeds (retired)
  Chris, formerly Senior Lecturer in Materials at the University of Leeds, has had a long association with the RMS. Together with a small group of council members he was involved in the establishment of the AMFES initiative in 1995, from which the Outreach and Education programme has largely grown. His motivation is the belief that a child's curiosity about the natural world can be nurtured, from the simplest level, by the observations and discoveries which can be made with the microscope.
  In 2015, Chris was awarded the first RMS President's Medal.

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  Dr Pippa Hawes

  Electron Microscopy infocus Editorial Board

  Institute of Animal Health
  Pippa is the Head of Bioimaging at The Pirbright Institute based in Surrey. Projects centre around investigating the interactions between animal pathogens and host cells. Bioimaging is dedicated to using and developing confocal and electron microscopy techniques to study viruses exotic to the UK that infect farm animals. Pippa has extensive experience in the field of electron microscopy and is an active member of the RMS EM section committee. She believes the RMS has an important role to play in the promotion and teaching of microscopy and is consequently a member of the Outreach and Education committee and lecturer at the RMS EM School.

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  Prof Rob Kesseler

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  Mrs Niga Nawroly

  ACEA Biosciences
  Niga is a qualified immunologist from Imperial College London with 10 years’ experience of the management of a successful flow cytometry facility. She has also worked for a number of flow cytometry reagents and instrumentation companies.  She is interested in education in flow cytometry either as an organiser or a teacher/trainer.   She has been an active member of the Flow Cytometry Committee for a number of years. 

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  Dr Noah Russell

  University of Nottingham
  Noah is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham.

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  Mr Peter Sainsbury

  Fellow of the Primary Science Teaching College (PSTC), PST Trust Cluster Mentor, Winterbourne Earls C of E Primary School, Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE), National Executive
  Since training at King Alfred’s, Winchester, Peter has taught in a variety of settings in Middle and Primary schools. Although the sciences have always been the subjects for him, Peter finds the range of opportunities and the linking of learning that takes place when working with Primary aged children thoroughly enjoyable and fascinating. 
  Peter has held a number of posts, including 2 Deputy Headships and 2 Acting Headships, and enjoyed further studies to help in these roles. Although committed to school leadership, Science and classroom practice have always remained equally important; he just can’t quite let go of that classroom bit!
  In recent years the potential for further involvement in Science has grown and grown, largely through Peter’s role as a Fellow of the Primary Science Teaching College (PSTT). In 2012 he was delighted to receive the National Primary Teaching Award from the IOP. His work with the Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE) also provides a useful perspective. Whilst still contributing to school leadership, his most recent role keeps him rooted in the classroom yet gives him a ‘remit to roam’ for Science and Education.

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  Dr Andrew Scott

  University of Leeds
  Andrew is a lecturer in the Institute for Materials Research. He has extensive experience of a wide range of experimental (advanced electron microscopy, surface analysis, X-ray diffraction) and theoretical (ab-initio materials modelling, crystallography) techniques, acquired in both academia (Leeds, Newcastle, Brunel) and industry (BP Research). He is secretary of the Materials Chemistry Committee of the IOM3.

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  Dr Kerry Thompson

  National University of Ireland, Galway

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  Dr Claire Wells

  Life Sciences Section Chair

  King's College London
  Claire's laboratory is interested in how cancer cells are able to dissociate from the primary tumour, invade the surrounding tissue and subsequently metastasise to distal sites. They use a lot of microscopy in the work, including confocal, TIRF and FRET in addition to live cell imaging to investigate the role of PAK family kinases in cancer cell migration, adhesion and invasion. Claire co-organised the 2012 RMS Abercrombie meeting and is involved in a number of RMS events. She is the life sciences representative on the RMS Outreach committee and has been working with local primary school children bringing microscopy into the classroom.

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  Dr Neil Wilson

  University of Warwick
  Neil is an Associate Professor in the Microscopy Group, Physics Department, University of Warwick. He started working with AFM during his PhD (completed 2004), also at the University of Warwick, where he developed carbon nanotube AFM tips and used AFM to study the electrical properties of nanotubes. Since then he has continued his interest in the application and development of scanning probe microscopy techniques for the study of functional properties of nanomaterials such as nanotubes, organic semiconductors and two-dimensional materials. Other research interests include growth and functionalisation of two-dimensional materials, high resolution electron microscopy of molecular materials, and nanoscale electronic structure measurement through spatially resolved photoemission spectroscopy

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The 2017 AGM of the RMS Outreach & Education Committee will take place at 4pm on Wednesday 5 July at mmc2017. 

Download the 2017 Outreach & Education Committee AGM Agenda

The 2016 AGM of the RMS Outreach & Education Section took place on Friday 30 September in London during the Microscopy: Advances, Innovation, Impact meeting.

Download the 2016 Outreach & Education Committee AGM Minutes