Gareth Sturdy
physics advisor, Up Learn; education and science writer

Gareth entered teaching in the 1990s after reading physics at Liverpool University. He has also spent time as a Fleet Street journalist and ran his own public-relations business.

His educational roles have included head of physics at one of the country’s leading grammar schools, and teaching at the East London Science School and Michaela Community School.

Gareth helped to set up the Physics Factory, a London Mayor project to boost physics teaching. More recently he has been teaching English and Mathematics to apprentices and is a curriculum advisor within science education. He is organiser of the AoI Education Forum and writes widely on education and science.

He is the co-author of the 2017 book What Should Schools Teach? Disciplines, subjects and the pursuit of truth.

He can be found on Twitter @stickyphysics

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