Jonathan Sanderson
Assistant Professor at Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonathan Sanderson is an Assistant Professor and STEM engagement academic with 11 years in higher education and over 30 years’ practice in science communication, blending research, teaching, and hands-on media production. He leads work on making STEM careers accessible to children from low-participation backgrounds through family robotics, computational tinkering and learning-through-failure approaches, while also lecturing in computer science and contributing to digital learning initiatives. A seasoned project manager and creative director, he has delivered large-scale public engagement projects and managed complex budgets, partnerships and award-winning factual media for broadcast and the web. His career uniquely spans frontline classroom and family interventions, academic research on ‘science capital’, and commercial production experience from BBC and the Royal Institution to founding a STEM media consultancy. Known for cheerful, pragmatic Python tinkering, he continues to combine filmmaking instincts with evidence-led practice to design playful, research-informed learning experiences.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Physics, History & Philosophy of Science, 2.1, MA, Physics, History & Philosophy of Science, 2.1 at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (82)
raspberry-pi-camera10
edward10
raspberry-pi-pico10
tufte10
raspberry10
wordpress9
custom-fields9
asciidoc9
css9
wordpress-plugin9
electron9
typescript9
editor8
linux8
vms8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NUSTEM-UK/connect-blockly-local
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:18 PRs, 48 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years
NUSTEM-UK/Digital-Making
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Notes for science communicators taking their first steps into digital making. Associated with the BIG Skills Day held at Northumbria University, 13th October 2017
Contributions:64 PRs, 100 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
notessciencefirst-stepsdaysteps
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