Simon Bates
simon.bates@ubc.ca
Senior Advisor, Teaching and Learning
Academic Director, Centre for Teaching, Learning
and Technology (CTLT)
Director, Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning (ISoTL)
Professor of Teaching, Department of Physics and
Astronomy
Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology,
1961 East Mall, Vancouver BC V6T1Z1
https://sites.google.com/site/simonpbates/
Simon Bates joined UBC in the summer of 2012, and was previously Dean of Learning and Teaching and Professor of Physics Education at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has published extensively in the areas of physics education research and the role of technology in enhancing learning. While at Edinburgh, he established and led the Physics Education Research Group (EdPER), which quickly became an internationally visible group of researchers, securing research grant funding from various external sources, including the UK Higher Education Academy, the Institute of Physics (IoP) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). He teaches on the Physics 101 course at UBC, a first year course on energy and waves delivered to 1700 non-­‐majors annually.