National Teaching Fellowship Award

Professor Nicky King, chair of the Society for Natural Sciences and Professor of Natural Sciences Education at the University of Exeter has today been announced as one of the winners of the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship Scheme awards for 2022, run by AdvanceHE.

Nicky led the development of our ground breaking accreditation framework which embeds interdisciplinarity at it’s heart and supports institutions to develop and share best practice around interdisciplinary science education. This work was core to Nicky’s NTFS nomination alongside her endeavours developing Natural Sciences at Exeter and advocating for both wider access to higher education and a more compassionate approach to educational leadership.

Nicky says “I’m really proud of the work we’ve done with the Society for Natural Sciences to introduce an accreditation scheme for UK HEIs and to champion interdisciplinary science education. This award recognises the value this scheme and I hope will act as a platform to raise the profile of Natural Sciences education and the role of the Society for Natural Sciences in the wider scientific community”