Dr Roger Lock

Roger Lock has been a lecturer in science education at the University of Birmingham since 1988. He has research interests in the assessment of practical skills, use of living things in science lessons, pupil attitudes/opinions about animal use, teaching and learning about controversial issues, and schools' contributions to the public understanding of science. His most recent work has been on the place of fieldwork in A-level biology courses.

Roger Lock worked in schools in Kilmarnock, Birmingham and Leamington Spa where he was a senior teacher/head of science at the innovative Trinity School. He taught Nuffield Biology from the late 1960s and started with Nuffield A-level Nuffield in 1972. He taught in the Universities of Leeds and Oxford before moving to Birmingham.

As well as teaching Nuffield Biology, he was involved with the assessment of the course and in revising course materials. He has set and marked A and S level papers through to moderating the projects, an activity he maintained to the final examination in 2001.