New Book Chapter:
Naylor. W., Chrysostomou. A., Carleschi. E. and Cornell. A. S. (2022). Using technology to understand student ‘misconceptions’ in classical mechanics. In K. Menon, K. Naidoo, G. Castrillon (Eds.) Teaching innovation for the 21st century – showcasing UJ teaching and learning 2021 (pp. 94-101). Jacana Media:
https://www.mydigitalpublication.co.za/uj/teaching-innovation-dte/data/mobile/index.html
New Article:
Carleschi. E., Chrysostomou A., Cornell A. S. and Naylor W. (2022) Probing the effect on student conceptual understanding due to a forced mid-semester transition to online teaching, Eur. J. Phys. 43 035702:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/ac41d9
2022 SAIP Proceedings – Pending
2021 SAIP Conference proceedings: Online classes and the effects on conceptual understanding, 26th July; recorded format at the 2021 South African Institute of Physics (SAIP) conference. Now submitted and on the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06074
Gender and Physics: “Gender gap and polarisation of physics on global courses,” http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03302, published in 2017 in the quarterly Physics Education Journal: http://www.physedu.in/uploads/publication/27/425/3.-PE17-02-425.pdf.
Our paper on physics education made the highlights of 2015 in the IOP Journal: Physics Education.
Applying quantum field theory to astrobiology?
Does quantum/thermal field theory affect life in the universe?
About Me
My ACU profile can be found here.
As an academic I am currently a lecturer at the School of Education at ACU and a visiting Senior Research Associate at the Department of Physics, University of Johannesburg. Prior to this I was sessional academic at the University of the Sunshine Coast. As a physics and mathematics teacher I have taught Senior Mathematics & Physics at Immanuel Lutheran College, Senior Mathematics at Kawana Waters State College and Physics, at Redcliffe SHS. This was all after completing a Grad. Dip. Ed. at USC with Physics and Maths my teaching areas; more here.
Prior to high school I was an Associate Professor of Physics at Osaka University and before that a Lecturer in Physics at Ritsumeikan University. Whilst at Osaka I was the Physics Coordinator for the CBCMP (Chemistry-Biology Combined Major Program) teaching an international cohort of students, as well as Master’ and PhD students in the department of physics (for a link to current staff members on the CBCMP, see CBCMP Faculty). As well as being a faculty member of the International College I was also an adjunct associate professor at the Department of Physics and a member of the vibrant High Energy Theory (HET) group at Osaka University.
My research interests focused on quantum particle creation under external field conditions. Examples in cavity QED are the dynamical Casimir effect (DCE), while in curved spacetime, particle creation (Hawking radiation) from black holes or that during inflation via reheating/preheating. I’m also interested in black hole quasinormal modes, particularly relating to developing new techniques to evaluate them (for more about my research interests click here and also see my publications list). I have now moved mainly into physics education research.
More about me
I am from Surrey, England and after an undergraduate MSci. in Theoretical Physics at St. Andrews University and a Ph.D. at Newcastle University (where my thesis focused on quantum effects in cosmology/curved spacetime) I moved to Japan in 2001 as a JSPS Foreign Research Fellow at Osaka University. In 2003 I became a 21COE Research Fellow at Kyoto University and then in 2005 became a lecturer at Ritsumeikan University. From 2010-2015 I was a Specially Appointed Associate Professor, at Osaka University. I then completed a Graduate Diploma of Education (2015-2016) at the University of the Sunshine Coast (whilst also doing some sessional work) and have full registration with the Queensland College of Teachers: June 2016 onwards.
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