Staff Profile:Dr Berry Billingsley

Name:

Dr Berry Billingsley

Job Title:

Lecturer in Science Education/Deputy Director Enterprise

Responsibilities:

Main responsibilities at the Institute: Lecturer in Primary Science

• Deputy Director of Enterprise
• Convenor of the Science Research Group
• Lecturer in science on the BA(Ed) program; MA module convenor for 'Children's Developing ideas about Science and Religion'; occasional teaching on the PG courses, MA supervision, ATP supervision

Areas of Interest:

• Pupils' and teachers' thinking about science and religion
• Pupils' ideas about the nature of science and their images of scientists
• Using multimedia to engage pupils in science

Current research and research projects

• 2009-12 LASAR Learning about Science and religion: a project run by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Cambridge and the University of Reading.
• Collaboration with Porto University developing scientific enquiry for pupils with visual impairment
• MEG (More Effective Group work) a science-PE collaborative project looking at group work in ITT

Enterprise and external roles

• Fostering enterprise activity within the Institute and looking to embed teaching about enterprise within the Institute's programs
• Developing partnership with The University of the West Indies (The Champions project)
• Institute of Education representative in the Berkshire ELP (Enterprise Learning Partnership)

Research groups / Centres:

Science Research Group

Publications:

Books:

Books, book chapters, journals

Taber, K., Billingsley, B., & Riga, F. (2010). How should science teachers respond to the 'science and religion' debate? Education in Science (236), 20-21.

Billingsley, B., Dawson, B., (ed), Mason, D., Saunders, N., van der Welle, S., (2008), Go Science (pupil books 1, 2 and 3), London: Heinemann.

Billingsley, B (2007). Dilemma of a science educator. Physics Education, (42), 319-320.

Billingsley, B. (2006) "Food science and Sports science" in Additional Applied Science for GSCE. London: Collins

Billingsley, B (2005) "Chapter 6: It's a Small World" in Nardelli, D. (ed) Science Alive 3: Sydney: Jacaranda

Billingsley, B. (2000). "Children's Images of Scientists: Stereotypes" in Fensham and Cross (eds) Science and the citizen for educators and the public. Melbourne: Arena, 79-85

Billingsley, B. (2001). Pushing the Limits. Melbourne: Longmans

Billingsley, B. & Golding, E. (2001). The Cartoon History of the Earth: teaching book. Melbourne: Longmans.

Billingsley, B. (1991). Space. London: BBC Publications

Conference Papers and Presentations

Billingsley, B., Taber, K., Riga, F. & Newdick, R. (2010) 'Teachers' perspectives on collaborative teaching about the 'Big Questions' in secondary schools: The silent treatment' at the Annual conference of the British Educational Research Association.

Billingsley, B. (2010) 'Secondary school pupils' thinking about Apparent Contradictions between science and religion' at the annual conference of the Association of Tutors in Science Education (ATSE).

Billingsley, B. (2010) Secondary school pupils' reasoning on science and religion, ASE (Association for Science Education) Annual Conference, January, Nottingham