Dr Sam Hopkins

Sam Hopkins is the teaching fellow in learning development on the biosciences foundation year programme. Before this she worked in the Researcher Development Programme at the University of Surrey . She has designed a range of training and support activities for researchers at PGR and postdoctoral level and lead on the mentoring programmes. Sam studied BSc Zoology in the UK and then completed her MSc and PhD in South Africa. Following completion of her doctorate, she held positions as tutor and then lecturer at the University of the Western Cape. She then continued her postdoctoral research career in biological sciences at the University of Surrey and spent a short time at the Zoological Society of London creating a course for fellows on the EDGE Programme.