Dr Anne Buckley

I am a primary science consultant based on Wirral, Merseyside working in a consultancy called ‘Inspiring Science’.

Current roles:

• We have a contract at a local primary school to teach their entire science curriculum from Year 1 to Year 6.
• Primary science consultant for Edsential (a community interest company owned by Cheshire West and Chester Council and Wirral Council to provide services to the Education sector) providing support to primary science leaders and CPD training.
• Independent primary science consultant delivering CPD training in North West and Midlands and primary science workshops.
• ‘Inspiring Science’ is providing a series of science workshops for Year 6 classes in our local area funded by Urenco.

I have a first degree in chemistry and a DPhil. in materials chemistry from Oxford University. My PGCE is in secondary science from Brunel University (1995). I have worked as a secondary science teacher in Oxford and in Cheshire. Since 2007 I have been working in the primary sector, independently in primary schools running workshops and science clubs and also as a Primary Science Consultant Teacher at the Discovery City Learning Centre in Prenton, Wirral. Here I developed and taught a range of science and IT workshops to thousands of children and devised and delivered CPD courses on current issues in primary science.

After graduating I worked as a senior research scientist at the ICI Research and Development Labs at Runcorn Heath and as a post-doctoral research fellow at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.