teaching


I taught the courses below before I took a 5-year break from teaching from 2014 so that I could concentrate on building HiPERCAM using my ERC Advanced Grant. Since 2019, I have been teaching two final-year BSc/MPhys and MSc courses - Dark Matter and the Universe and The Origin of the Chemical Elements (aka Nuclear Astrophysics). The notes for these are on the Blackboard Ultra VLE at Sheffield. I run the Astronomy Field Trip to La Palma for our MPhys/MSc students each year, where we use our 0.5m telescope pt5m. I also administer the Year Abroad on La Palma scheme at Sheffield, giving our final-year MPhys Astrophysics students the opportunity to work as Support Astronomers for a year at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING).



stellar structure & evolution (phy213) - course given from 1998/99 to 2013/14
lecture
notes

_the course 		lab


_13/14 		exam
papers

_12/13
_11/12
_10/11

astronomical techniques (phy217) - course given from 2010/11 to 2013/14
lecture
notes

_the course 		exam
papers

_12/13
_11/12
_10/11

observing the night sky (phy105) - course given from 1998/99 to 2009/10
lecture
notes

_the celestial sphere
_telescopes
 problem
sheets

_01
_02
_03
_04
_05
 problem
solutions

_01
_02
_03
_04
_05
 exam
papers

_07/08
_08/09