Teaching

Undergraduate

BEES2041 - Data Analysis for Life and Earth Science

I convene this core 2nd year cours. Student's develop core skills in the manipulation, statistical analysis, and communication of data. Using examples from the biological, earth, and environmental sciences, students will examine the role of statistics in answering the three main types of scientific questions, and gain experience applying common methods, using the R programming language.

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BEES3041 - Big Data in the Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences

In this 3rd-year course, students work as a real data scientist, pursuing a project in collaboration with one of the academic leads.

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BIOS2051 - Flowering Plants

In this 2nd-year course, I teach a module on Angiosperm life-history strategies and functional traits, looking at similarities and differences across species.

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Awards

In 2025 I received the UNSW Students' Choice Teaching Award — one of five recipients from 241 nominations across the University — recognising my redesign of BEES2041. Here is what some of my students had to say: