Stuart Farmer

@stuartphysics.bsky.social

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Science and Physics education stuff plus a bit of bike sport and veg. Education and Workforce Manager at Institute of Physics Scotland and Honorary Fellow at University of Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making. Comments all own.

Me standing in a park wearing a blue parkwalk vest behind the Hazlehead parkrun sign
Cover of Prof. Lindsay Paterson’s latest book ‘Lessons from Scottish Schools:Why Knowledge Matters’.
Photo of Nat Phil ‘O’ Ordinary Grade physics textbook by Jim Jardine. Cover has a photo of the Forth Bridge viewed through a lens and a round bottom flask giving erect and inverted images of the bridge with the bridge in the background. The photo was taken from Jim’s house in South Queensferry.
Photograph of the Duke of Wellington statue with obligatory cone on head on Glasgow hotel bedroom wall above bed.
Title and abstract of paper 'Exploring the reasons why former physics teachers in Scotland left teaching'
Huge volume of water being released from Clyde hydroelectric dam. Grass in foreground, snow-capped mountains in background under blue sky.
A white lighthouse and a radio mast surrounded by shrubby subtropical vegetation
Mountains, some snow-capped, and a river delivering lots of brown silt-laden water into an otherwise blue ocean.
Te Papa-Kura -o-Taranaki - a snow-capped conical volcano in the distance beyond flat grass fields
A Series 1 Land Rover and early Toyota Land Cruiser
Ford GT40 endurance racer from late 1960s in classic Gulf colours
TR750 Suzuki raced by Pat Hennen, first American to win a GP
Australian road signs with one to Toorak changed to Toprak - 3 times World Superbike champion
MotoGP course cars drive past marshals and medical staff with their equipment lined up at the side of the circuit
MotoGP Sprint Race lap two from Siberia grandstand, Phillip Island. Raul Fernandez and Marco Bezzecchi leading the field.
RMIT exhibition with kart in front of tent with robots and other exhibits at Australian MotoGP 2025
David Alonso, Jake Dixon and Manu Gonzalez from Siberia grandstand - Moto2 free practice 1 Australian MotoGP 2025
View from Lukey Heights across The Hayshed and Siberia corners to the Bass Strait at Phillip Island GP Circuit. The circuit is damp.
Looking west along Yarra River. Eureka Tower with Skydeck viewing floor on left.
Entrance to Whittlesea Tech School, Epping, Melbourne
University of Melbourne Physics Building
Oddly shaped potato.
A pan containing freshly picked and shelled peas.
STEM Leaders 7 introduce their showcase event
Delegates, sitting in groups around takes but looking towards the front of the room, use various orientations of their hands to solve a physics problem about the deflection of electrons in a magnetic field.
Alison McLeod of Photonics Scotland presents a session on the good career opportunities and skills demands in the photonics sector in Scotland at the 50th IOP Scotland Stirling Physics Teachers Meeting. There is a slide showing Technology Scotland's networks on a screen.
Andy Buckley presents a workshop to delegates on cloud chambers at the 50th IOP Scotland Stirling Physics Teachers meeting. He is standing in front of a screen with information about the history of cloud chambers. There are pint glasses and other parts to make a small cloud chamber on a table.
Andy Kirkwood presents about Lesson Study at the 50th IOP Scotland Stirling Physics Teachers Meeting
Cheryl Patrick of the University of Edinburgh introduces board games to help teach particle physics to school pupils to delegates at the 50th IOP Scotland Stirling Physics Teachers Meeting
Karen Haughian, Vice-Chair of IOP Scotland welcomes delegates to the 50th Stirling Physics Teachers Meeting.
50th IOP Scotland Stirling Physics Teachers Meeting anniversary cake. A white cake with the Institute of Physics Scotland logo and the date of the 50th Meeting - 21 May 2025.
Range Rover with personalised registration parked on double yellow lines.
TeacherTapp results from 12 May 2025 showing only 11% of respondents considered their last in-service day activities very useful
Lynne Jones and Sheena Bell from SCILT beside a tree in the grounds of Queen Margaret University Edinburgh on a sunny day
Celestron AstroMaster 76 telescope in the corner of a hotel room
Stuart Farmer beside sign welcoming ISTA Annual Conference to Maynooth University on Saturday 5 April 2025
Bergen, Norway. Looking west over the city centre and ferry port towards the North Sea.
View from bus of Dock Street, Dundee on route to Arbroath and Aberdeen
Full room with people sitting on the floor at James de Winter’s session
3-D model of uniform magnetic field between two magnets and forces on current-carrying conductors
David Farley of IOP Teaching with diagrams of the motion of objects in uniform gravitational and electric fields
SERA cake to celebrate its 50th anniversary
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