Dr. Sarah Roberts – Education Director (Swansea Uni)

Sarah started work with the Faulkes Telescope Project (FTP) in January 2005 after completing her PhD in Astronomy, which involved looking for dwarf galaxies in different parts of the Universe. Sarah is currently the Director of Education for the FTP and has produced many of the educational resources for the project.

She is responsible for the development of the FT website and online training programmes (http://resources.faulkes-telescope.com/) as well as managing the teacher training programmes for FTP, both face-to-face and online, in the UK and overseas.

In addition, Sarah is the UK representative for European Hands-On Universe , and was the project representative for the EU-funded Comenius Teacher Training and Radio Astronomy programmes. Sarah is based at Swansea University where she is a senior lecturer driving the inclusivity, learner support and widening participation agenda in the College of Science.