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Meet Dr Aran Singanayagam

What course do you teach on and what is your role?

I am the stream lead for Bacterial Pathogenesis and Infection of the MRes Biomedical Research.

How has your career led you to teaching?

I am a clinical academic and therefore split my time between research, teaching and clinical practice. I have been involved in teaching throughout my career and I find it to be a very fulfilling and rewarding aspect of my job. 

What aspect of the course do you enjoy teaching the most?

I particularly enjoy the more interactive teaching activities such as the grant writing sessions. These sessions tend to generate extremely insightful discussions and I often learn a lot myself! I also enjoy supervising laboratory projects as it is always amazing to see how rapidly our ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ can progress their scientific skills within a short space of time.

What do you hope your ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ will go on to achieve on completion of this course?

We hope that our ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ will develop a deep interest in bacterial infection science and that, following completion of the course, they will be able to use the skills and knowledge they obtain to progress on to a fulfilling career either within or outside science. 

What is your favourite part about teaching at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½?

The ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½! Always intelligent, motivated and eager to learn.