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September 2014 – June 2019 | Postgraduate Teaching Assistant

Royal Holloway University of London, UK.


Responsibilities

  • Taught practical classes, field trips, lectures, & tutorials & provided individualised support to students.

Teaching

  • Teaching assistant & lecturer: Regional Geology (2nd year UG)
  • Teaching assistant: Global Tectonics (1st year UG)
  • Teaching assistant: Advanced Concepts & Techniques in Geology (3rd year UG)
  • Teaching assistant: Rocks & Minerals (1st year UG)
  • Field teaching: Almeria field trip (2nd year UG)
  • Field teaching: Devon field trip (1st year UG)
  • Personal tutor (1st year UG)

During my PhD, I worked as a postgraduate teaching assistant. I demonstrated in numerous practical classes where I provided helped small groups and individual students with their practical exercises. I taught on both UK-based and international field trips where I provided teaching support as well as pastoral care and first aid. I also lectured on the Regional Geology (2nd year geological map reading skills and a narrative history of the geology of the UK) module to provide cover for the long-term absence of a colleague. Additionally, I was a personal tutor to a group of 1st year undergraduates where I led small-group teaching sessions — mostly focussed on skills — and provided pastoral care and mentoring.


I’m Alex Clarke

I am a structural geologist working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Johannes Gutenberg–Universität Mainz and a hobbyist girl-with-camera.

My research focuses on the heterogeneities within large faults, shear zones, and subduction zone mélanges — how to map them, quantify them, and explain their origins. I am especially interested in 3D reconstructions of rocks and outcrops which allow detailed, realistic, and quantifiable models of natural phenomena. I also love to teach and I am interested in innovative and engaging methods of teaching earth sciences, both in the classroom and in the field.

In my free time, I enjoy photography and my images reflects my love of nature and the diverse forms nature can take.