This week we are joined by Dr Gareth Few, Lecturer in Physics in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, discussing the student voice, leading change and resolving conflict with the move to competence-based teaching & assessment.

“...the philosophy of learning to love failing and taking the shame out of it… so if you can change your mind set around failure to be like…”oh well… I did that wrong this time but now I know that I couldn’t do that, so I’ll do it differently”.

Gareth Few is a physics lecturer with a background in computational astrophysics with galactic chemical evolution. After time as a research fellow at the University of Exeter and the University of Hull he has devoted himself to excellence in physics education, teaching at Durham University and then returning to Hull.

More recently Gareth has held various leadership positions including director of Physics Education and Head of Physics and spearheaded a complete redesign of the physics degrees at the University of Hull.

He is active in science outreach, presenting science talks to schools, science clubs and the public as well as previously chairing the Beverley Café Scientifique and Hull branch of the British Science Association.

His favourite subject to teach is Special Relativity and his cup of ‘tea' is a morning cup of coffee.

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