Kristy Turner
Kristy Turner is a school teacher fellow at University of Manchester/Bolton School, UK
Kristy uniquely splits her time between teaching chemistry at the University of Manchester and Bolton School. She was the Royal Society of Chemistry school teacher fellow 2011–12 at the University of Manchester and has a range of experience teaching in state and independent schools in the north-west of England.
Kristy is the author of the popular RSC resource Starters for Ten. She is an active member of the chemistry education community and has research interests in assessment, development of conceptual models within curriculums and transition between school and university level chemistry study.
- Ideas
Strategies for six-mark questions
Get your students practising answering these within the time limit
- Feature
Conserving the periodic table
How paper conservators preserved the one of the world’s oldest periodic tables
- Feature
8 surprising things I learned in TV show
Travelling through 100 years of science education with the BBC
- Feature
The most important village in chemistry
How one small Swedish hamlet contributed to the periodic table
- Opinion
Why teachers should attend education conferences
A powerful part of your professional development
- Analysis
Finding the fake booze
Ever wondered what Raman spectrometry is? Here’s how it can find out what’s in a bottle without opening it.
