Lauren joined the Royal Society of Biology as Head of Education Policy in July 2017. Previously she has worked on gender projects, including Opening Doors, and higher education projects as part of the education team at the Institute of Physics, and as a science teacher in North London.
A major focus for the education policy team at RSB is development of a curriculum framework. Our curriculum committee was convened in 2013 and over the last 18 months we have started to work on the documents that will form our framework, capturing all the discussions we have had with the bioscience and education communities. More details are available www.rsb.org.uk/curriculum.
At ASE 2019 we will be presenting some of this work at sessions: Framing the biology curriculum and as part of a joint session with ASE, IOP and RSC discussing what makes a scientific discipline?
RSB also have an annual presence at the conference with an exhibition stand, and Thursday talks by BERG (Biology Education Research Group), Friday talks on BitRW (Biology in the Real World) and as joint hosts of the Talking Science debate held on Friday afternoon.