School of Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Genetics

Liz lecturing to school children at the Royal Institution using a motorised bacterial model

Lecturing In addition to Lecturing at the University of Nottingham and working with the visually impaired Dr Sockett is the Education Officer for the Society of General Microbiology, regularly giving public lectures and talks to school children. Some of these are listed below: Invited Lectures as a Science Communicator SET week, 1995 Lecturer to 200 members of W.I. on Genetically Engineered Food. Meeting organised by Dr Mike Davey, Nottingham University campus. Royal Institution lectures to children, Royal Institution, London, 'Motoring Microbes: Bacterial Movement' April 30th 1998, Nov 10th 1998, June 12th 2000, July 10th 2000. Royal Institution SET Week, Royal Institution London, March 15th 1999, 'Bacteria and Viruses'. British Association for the Advancement of Science, Public Lecture to 2000, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, 'Marvellous Microbes', Nov 23rd 1999. Graduate Careers lectures at UK Life Science Committee Fairs, Nov 1999, Nov 2000. Lectures in Schools Uppingham School, Rutland, Genetic Engineering and bioscience careers, 1994. RNIB School, Worcester, Genetics and Biochemistry, May 1995, Mar 1996. Whitegate Primary School, Clifton, Nott'm, 'Marvellous Microbes', 1995. Christ the King School, Nott'm (6th form), 'Cloning Genes', May 22nd 1997. Holgate School, Hucknall, Notts' (Science Fair), 'Discovering Microbiology', June 12th 1997. Bramcote Scouts, 'Microbes and Recycling' Nov 14th 1997. Glaisdale School, Nott'm, 'Micro-organisms good, bad and ugly', May 24th 1999. Southwell Minster School, Open forum on Genetic Engineering, Dec 15th 2000. Oakham School, Rutland, 'Love Bugs' Feb 14th 2000.

Genetics with models Dr Sockett supervises innovative projects for final year undergraduate students who wish to pursue careers in education. The projects include designing methods for teaching normally complicated subjects to school children and tactile models for explaining science to people with visual impairments. Examples of projects for the visually impaired can be found in the touching science pages. Projects for school children include learning the genetic code by making a friendship bracelet from different colours representing codons and using toys such as Mr Potatohead (Genetic code and Understanding chromosomes pages).

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