• Question: Why did you chose uni lecturer instead of working in a low attainment school?

    Asked by XavdrynDV to Richard on 2 Apr 2025.
    • Photo: Richard Collins

      Richard Collins answered on 2 Apr 2025:

      I didn’t really choose to be a lecturer, I just ended up doing it.
      University lecturing also allows for active research, which I really enjoy.
      Teaching in a school would be 100% teaching, no research.

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    charlottemaughanjones commented on :

    Lecturing is very different to classroom teaching in a school, however i am an active STEM ambassador and have been since 2017. This means i regularly go into schools to deliver science workshops to children in my area, and it is one of my absolute favourite things to do. I mostly work with primary school children to help them love physics. Working in a university means i do more than teach – i also do research, collaborate on other projects, do public engagement/outreach, i am able to join committees. I have so much respect for teachers – it is a hard job, and i couldn’t do it. As a lecturer i am very specialised in a very small area of knowledge – classroom teachers have to have a much broader knowledge of their subject area than i do.