Jackie is a physics graduate from Durham University who has taught in state secondary schools for 30 years and she has been involved in primary outreach programmes for much of this time. During her time as Director of STEM at Chipping Campden School, a secondary comprehensive school in the North Cotswolds, she set up the STAR (Science, Training and Research) Centre in 2016 to act as a hub for numerous student and teacher enrichment programmes in partnership with ESERO-UK, The Royal Institution, IRIS and Astrocamps. Jackie is now Head of Teaching and Learning at The Ogden Trust.
Jackie is a Space Champion for ESERO-UK and a Trustee of Chipping Campden School Charitable Trust.
Jackie has an MSc in Teacher Education from Oxford University and was awarded the Teacher of Physics Award by the Institute of Physics in 2020.
