Testimonials - Lander

Lander is a 2:1 Master of Science (Physics) Honours graduate at Nottingham Trent University. He has been working as an online physics tutor for the last 5 years since the start of the 4th year of his master's degree. Since then, Lander has trained as a teacher through a PGCE (postgraduate certificate of education) course at Sheffield Hallam University and subsequently obtained QTS (qualified teacher status) working at Sirius Academy North in Hull and Heritage Highschool in Derbyshire. Having nearly four years of experience in classroom teaching Physics, Mathematics, and resistant materials he considers pedagogical research as vital in developing our tutoring practice and enabling our tutees to achieve their best outcomes and university choices.

During 2018, Lander conducted his master's research on the Earth's ionosphere. He programmed and conducted a multivariate statistical analysis of how plasma formed in the Earth’s upper ionosphere using data from the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association Telescopes (EISCAT) located across northern Scandinavia in Svalbard, Kiruna, and Sodankylä. Plasma being electrically charged, interferes with electromagnetic waves used for all manner of telecommunications and GPS. He hopes that this research will aid in understanding the formation and movement of plasma through the ionosphere to establish and maintain more accurate and precise communication and GPS with applications from aerospace to search and rescue.

Outside of work Lander enjoys board games, warhammer 40k, and DnD.