Dr Susan Matthews
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Chair of UEA South East Asia Dialogue Group.
Her educational research focuses on inclusivity, active learning, authentic assessments and internationalisation particularly the development of culturally appropriate and implementable approaches for low and middle income countries. Ongoing projects include the development of the UK Asia Pharmacy Education Network (UKAPEN) through Erasmus+ enabling the upskilling of staff and students in UK, Vietnam and Thailand.
Through her previous role as Associate Dean for Admission for the Faculty of Science at UEA, she is an experienced developer of events and creator of interactive experiments for schools. Highlights of this include establishing ‘Bring the Scientist to You’ a cross-faculty roadshow event taking science to disadvantaged communities to encourage students to study science.
She is an established deliverer of online and in-person teaching and training having worked with groups from students to established researchers in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and Russia. Through her work as dialogue chair she is an experienced international project co-ordinator.
Dr Roslinawati Mohd Roslan
Assistant Professor in Primary Science Education
In addition she is the Deputy Dean Academic in Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE), Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She graduated in 2014 from the University of Queensland, Australia, with a PhD in Education. Prior to her Doctoral studies, she completed her MA in Science Education from the University of Leeds, the United Kingdom, in 2005. She has been teaching various modules for Master of Teaching students such as Science Education for Primary Schools, Assessment for Learning, Language and Teaching and Educational Research Methodology, in SHBIE since 2004.
Her research interests include the role of language in science education, dialogic teaching, discourse analysis, multimodalities, assessment for learning, primary science education and STEM education. She has been involved in community services involving the training of primary science teacher volunteers in Program Intervensi Pendidikan (PIP) Yayasan Projects (or Education Intervention Programme by Yayasan ), Graduan Tutor Bersepadu (Integrated Tutor Graduates ) and the recent one under UBD – Imagine Community Tuition Centre in helping underprivileged Year 6 students for the National primary education examination called Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (or Primary School Assessment).
Dr Masitah binti Shahrill
Associate Professor and Teacher Educator at the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE), Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
Dr Masitah’s research interests are in the areas of teacher and teacher education, mathematics education, higher education, 21st Century teaching and learning, assessment, classroom research, online education and youth practices and their education. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Southeast Asian Mathematics Education Journal for the SEAMEO Regional Centre for QITEP in Mathematics based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (https://journal.qitepinmath.org/index.php/seamej). She also served as editorial board member for several other educational related international journals. She is the Country Ambassador for Brunei Darussalam for the International Mathematical Union’s Committee for Women in Mathematics.
Professor Stephen Ashworth
Professor of Chemical Physics and Science Communication, and Head of Physics
His Kitchen Chemistry science shows have been recognised by the RSC with an Inspirational Member Award in 2018. In addition to within the UK the shows have been performed internationally: Ireland, France, Belgium, South Africa, Thailand, Malaysia, Mauritius, Hong Kong and New Zealand and he has been invited to speak at conferences in Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand. He is currently a member of the Advisory Boards of Norwich Science Festival and Scifest Africa. He is also Senior Editor of the Society of Natural Sciences Student Journal.
