Bioscience Practitioner Learning Research Group

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Summary

This research group considers all bioscience learners, students and tutors, and how learning identity develops as a result of changing participation within biological communities of practice, both within and outside of our University.

Our aim

All learning occurs within a social context and practitioner learning occurs through participation in a defined community of practice. Biosciences is a landscape of different biological communities, each with its own research history, communication and defined practices.

This Research Group is a social research centre in Biology. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding learning. Negotiating meaning is at the core of human learning. This research group focuses on learning in terms of interdependent learners co-participating in creative practices both inside our University and in associated networks outside the formal curriculum and outside our University. Therefore, we are interested in how you negotiate your identity as a participant in a community, how you express competences such that you are recognisable to other community members. We also explore how the community helps the ‘make up’ of your identity as a person more generally.  

Researchers within Bioscience Practitioner Learning Research Group

Trust Diya

Lecturer

Trust is a biomedical scientist whose core discipline is histology and cytology. His main area of interest is lipidomics and nutrition with a focus on the effects of flavonoids on adipogenesis.

Angela PRIESTMAN

Head Of Department - Biological Sciences

Angela has a number of research specialisms, including Biochemistry of Haematophagous insect cuticular lipid, Semiochemicals in mating recognition and choice, and Mosquito biology with special interest in British mosquito ecology and behaviour.

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Dr Richard Halfpenny

Course Director

Richard spent 16 years working in a business setting before returning to university studying a PhD on the species discrimination of cryptic Culex mosquito species using non-molecular methods, and their olfactory mediated sugar feeding behaviou…

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