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Dr Sue Dale Tunnicliffe
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An expert on children learning about animals and plants, Dr Tunnicliffe has published widely. She graduated in zoology and has specialised in education, a qualified teacher, she has taught at all ages form the early years to university. She holds a PhD from King’s College and is now an (emeritus) Senior academic, a Reader, at the UCL Institute of Education. She set up and ran an advisory team in primary science and technology for an Education authority in England, then was Head of Education at the Zoological Society of London. She worked part time in a historical museum as science adviser and as an education officer at the BBC. She has been an OFTSED school inspector has worked as a researcher and lecturer at Cambridge and Winchester Universities as well as UCL. She has written widely, books for practitioners as well as academic papers. Presently she is particularly interested in how pre formal school children learn STEM through observation and experiences, asserting the critical foundations are lain in unstructured, free choice play at both home and in the community long before formal school. Dr Lady Tunnicliffe recognises that parents and community are the first and most important teachers of children. She is Chair of the Commonwealth Association for Science, Technology and Maths Educators, CASTME)
