Karen Kerr (BEd Hons, PhD, FHEA, FRSB) is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Queen’s University Belfast to include co-ordination of the initial teacher education programme for secondary-level science. Science (Biology) education is her research focus, having run projects and published in the areas of outdoor, environmental education and Education for Sustainability. Karen is a board member for Northern Ireland Environment Link. She is a co-founder of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland’s (ESAI) Biology Education Special Interest Group (SIG). Dr Kerr has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) and is on their Teaching Policy Advisory Group.