Gareth Sturdy
physics adviser, 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, and has also taught English and Mathematics to apprentices. He now works as an education advisor within online education, with particular concern for what is unique about schools. He is organiser of the AoI Education Forum and writes regularly on education for spiked.

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 X/Twitter: @stickyphysics

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