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Mel Lacey

Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Sheffield Hallam University

Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Sheffield Hallam University Mel is an Associate Professor at Sheffield Hallam University with over a decade’s teaching experience. She currently teaches microbiology, molecular biology and biochemistry across the Biosciences and Chemistry undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. She is passionate about improving the accessibility of science from school and college students, to our students here at Hallam, through to the public as a whole. This underpins Mel’s teaching approach, research and roles within her department. She is an active researcher in both the Accessibility of Science and Molecular Microbiology group and within the Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre. Mel has a departmental role in undergraduate admissions, organising the departmental schools, colleges and public engagement programme as well as the STEM ambassador programme