Miss Strickland completed her Biology BSc at the University of Bristol, with a focus on evolutionary biology and behavioural ecology. She particularly loved the diversity of her undergraduate degree, studying everything from the detection of background matching colouration in moths to reviewing the arguments surrounding the relationship between science and religion regarding human morality. As well as being a keen biologist at university, Samantha was also the Senior Midshipman of Bristol University Royal Naval Unit; a position which saw her enjoying several deployments around Europe on-board the unit’s P2000, HMS Dasher. Having embarked on a teaching career through Teach First, Samantha has much less time to exercise her sea-legs but still enjoys playing the clarinet, dress-making, and enjoying the great outdoors in her spare time.