School of Biology

Ms Lorna Sibbett
Senior Teaching Fellow

Teaching and advising

• Sub-honours Adviser of Studies
• Lecturer on: Biology 1 BL1101; Cell Structure and Function BL2101; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology BL2104; Comparative Physiology BL2106; JH Statistics BL3320; Communication and Teaching in Science ID4001; Skills for Biologists; and Postgraduate Training Programme.

Administrative roles related to teaching

• Co-Director of the Centre for HIgher Education Research (CHER)
• Year Leader - 2000 level
• Convenor of the Skills Panel, School of Biology
• Module organiser of:  Cell Structure and Function BL2101; Skills for Biologists BL2200. 
• Careers Link between the School of Biology and the Careers Centre

Active research interests

I am interested in life transition phases, particularly their relationship to learning; understanding and supporting learning as a lifelong adventure. I work on: development of transferable skills/employability within HE; self-efficacy and its development/change across the life course; and widening access to higher education. 

  "education is at the heart of both personal and community development; its mission is to enable each of us, without exception, to develop all our talents to the full and to realise our creative potential, including responsibility for our own lives and achievement of our personal aims." From Learning: The Treasure Within UNESCO 1996.

Footnote. I am a biochemist, who became a genetic epidemiologist and public health researcher. I have always been a teacher, as my siblings will attest. My pet hate is people talking absolute rubbish with absolute confidence.