Kristy Turner

Kristy read her Doctor of Philosophy degree with Prof. David J. Procter on Solid-phase approaches to heterocycles using a sulfur linker cleaved by reduction with samarium (II) iodide at University of Glasgow and successfully gained her PhD in 2006.^[5]

Upon completion of her PhD, she joined the Royal Society of Chemistry trainee teacher program (Chemistry for Our Future initiative) in 2006, and since then has been a RSC school teacher fellow.^[2] She worked as a chemistry teacher at Westhoughton High School from 2006 to 2011, where she also was the Head of Chemistry from 2008 to 2011.^[6] She then moved to Bolton School in 2012, where she currently works as a chemistry teacher to date.^[3][4] In 2011, she also joined the University of Manchester as a RSC School teacher fellow. In 2012, she was promoted to Honorary fellow and is currently working as a school teacher fellow in chemical education and transition from the year 2015 on wards.^[6]

Turner is the current chair of the Education in Chemistry magazine editorial board at the Royal Society of Chemistry.^[3] She is also a member of the committee board at RSC in Curriculum and Assessment development for age groups 11 – 16 and 11 – 19.^[6][3]

Turner is the author of one of the popular^[3] RSC resource, Starters for ten.^[7] She also have published a variety of articles in both Chemistry World and Education in Chemistry including in chemistry assessment,^[8] organic chemistry,^[9] and relationships within a research group.^[10]

Turner has also appeared in a variety of television shows. The table below summarizes her work in the television media;

• School Education Award (2017)^[2]