Claire has been the Director of the Science Learning Centre (SLC) since May 2022. Her duties include the management of the SLC staff and directing various activities at the Centre.  Claire's research background is in the Biological Sciences. To see her research profile, follow her on ResearchGate. Claire's professional background includes four years of lecturing at various HE institutions across the UK, as well as three years experience as a learning technologist due to her interest in the growing use of technology in the education sector. To see her professional profile, follow her on LinkedIn.

In addition to my full-time role as the Director of the Science Learning Centre, I am also studying a part-time PhD in Biological Sciences at Aberystwyth University that is focusing on equine cognition and behaviour with a view to establishing the equine depressive phenotype. Prior to this, I completed an MRes in Biological Sciences and published my research findings which studied the physiological effects of Ridden Water Submersion Training in Elite Event Horses.

I have four year's experience lecturing at FE, undergraduate and postgraduate level in Biological Sciences with a particular specialism in Equine Science in the areas of Equine Exercise Physiology and Equine Cognition and; Behaviour.