Christina Astin
Interests
- Partnerships, including advising organisations on how to engage successfully with schools, and partnerships between schools (especially cross-sector)
- Science and STEM teaching, science capital, girls and science, teacher development, physics education
Personal interests:
- Music; mezzo-soprano (choral, freelance)
- Widening opportunities for young people
- Europhilia
- Environmental issues
Useful Information
- Chair of Planet Possibility, a consortium working to increase engagement with physics, especially amongst post-16 students from under-represented groups.
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching
- STEM Ambassador
- Founder-Chair of the Schools Together Group (now the School Partnerships Alliance)
- Co-Founder of Young Scientists Journal
- Advisor (and former trustee) to charity Physics Partners
- Frequent guest on BBC Radio Kent on science/education issues, host of #Pocket Science
- Co-founder of Canterbury Choral Society Youth Choir
- Deputy Lay Clerk (alto) at Canterbury Cathedral
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