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Dorte Hammelev
Dorte Hammelev is vice president in Danish
Association for Biology Teachers (FaDB). Through EIBE she has arranged
courses for in-service teachers in Denmark, Sweden and Luxembourg. She has
developed teaching materials with a special focus on biotechnology,
including risk assessment, and has been engaged in public debate
programmes about biotechnology throughout Denmark. She is investigating,
at Roskilde University,
how students use their knowledge of biology concepts in decision-making.
She has recently retired as a biology teacher at Frederiksberg HF kursus in Copenhagen,
and is now editor of Biofag.
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Ewa Erixon-Carlqvist
Ewa Erixon-Carlqvist has a training in analytical
chemistry, and since the year 2000 she works as the contact person of
AstraZeneca
with secondary schools. Her assignement is to enhance the interest in
natural sciences in schoolchlidren.
Liz Sockett
Dr Sockett is lecturer in genetics at the
Universitety
of Nottingham. Her
area of research is bacterial flagellates. She is responsible for
questions related to biology education in microbiology for
'The Society for General Microbiology'
and is a member of the Board of 'Education and Training of the
'American Society for Microbiology'.
In the year 2000, Liz was awarded Lord Dearing's prize for education and
learning.
Ernst
Nyström works in the Department of Endocrinology at
Göteborg University. He is editor of
the magazine 'Corpus',
which is produced by the Medical School in Göteborg. Ernst is often
heard answering medical questions from listeners to the Swedish radio
programme 'Alltinget'.
John Watson
John Watson is a biology teacher at the
European School in Luxenbourg.
He has been a major contributor to
EIBE. John has a special interest in classroom activities that
stimulate debate about the implications of modern biology in a European
context.
