Founder, applied neuroscientist and education leader
I started as a chemist, in industry.
Then I led teaching and curriculum in schools in England, Belgium and Switzerland.
The gap I kept returning to: what learning science knows, and what schools actually do.
AI has made it urgent. So I research how schools are built against the brain, and when AI belongs in a young mind.
The research programme
A review of the neuroscience of school design, and five projects on the ways schools are built against it: the shape of the day, disadvantage, assessment, the device and the developing brain.
AI by Design
A programme on when, not whether, AI belongs in a young person's learning, staged by developmental readiness rather than year group.
Speaking
Advisory, through The EdJournal
For schools and trusts with a decision in front of them: AI governance, checking a curriculum against the evidence, and leadership diagnostics.