Before taking up his lecturing position at Kingston he undertook post-doctoral research at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and the Charité Medical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. His scientific research involves looking at calcium handling in cardiac muscle cells. His pedagogic research focuses on institutional collaboration and individualised learning and assessment. He was the winner of the UK HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year Prize in 2014/15 and was Kingston University’s “Most Engaging Lecturer” in 2013. Nicholas Simon Freestone Kingston University Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing Penrhyn Road 0208 4172551 n.freestone@kingston.ac.uk