Nadia Saeed

Nadia has completed PhD in life sciences from the University of Padova, Italy with a 1st vision, surpassing mostly in developmental and educational sciences. I am enthusiastic about science and am keen to bring new ideas into action and gain more experience within an academic environment under an expert team leader. She desires to become a science teacher in the future. 

I served as a teaching assistant for three postgraduate level courses during my postgraduate period at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, for which I developed all of the content for the module, delivered several lectures, and conducted all seminars. During the seminars I mainly adopted the Research Informed Teaching approach, in which I used to share with my students' research-based facts related to the contents of the lecture, to empower my students to become leaders and agents of change, and to develop strategies that enhance the synergies between research and student education by encouraging my student’s skills and abilities to lead their own research projects. I’m sure my teaching philosophy will contribute significantly towards to your Gold TEF. 

In addition, I had also been worked as a Science tutor through National Tutoring Program, Sunderland, UK for delivering online science sessions to small groups of pupils (KS4). I have been involved in assessing students’ level of progress and development in subject area and identifying the areas for improvement. This NTP program was limited to deliver only 15 hours of sessions per tutor to cover disadvantage pupils due to covid-19 closure of schools. 

I have also been performing my duties as a 1:1 Science tutor at Outwood academy Bishopsgarth. Stockton. I have been endeavouring pupils to develop their aspiration towards learning by providing mock examination or tests to prepare them for real exam. I would have to review student’s assignments and test score and working through problem questions that students did not solve correctly. I always keep up to date with the current curriculum and new teaching strategies and maintaining an excellent knowledge of the subject being taught (KS3 and KS4). 

I have completed my PhD in Crop Science (Agriculture Entomology) from University of Padova, Italy. The title of my thesis was “Interaction between temperature and environmental variables in Drosophila suzukii”. For the completion of PhD work, I was involved in DROPSA project: Strategies to develop effective, innovative, and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens”.