Liggins Institute
Jacquie Bay
Director, LENScience
BSc; MEd Hons; DipTch
Contact details
Phone: +64 9 923 4282
Email: j.bay@auckland.ac.nz
Research interests
- Science communication
- Students as researchers
- Young people’s perspectives of science and scientists
- The role of context in teaching and learning
- E-learning: communities of interaction
Jacquie is founding Director of LENScience, an innovative science education programme that creates opportunities for schools and scientists to work together in activities that promote the development of scientific literacy and capability. She leads research at the Liggins Institute which is looking at public perceptions of the relationship between nutrition and disease risk.
She leads research at the Liggins Institute which is looking at the role of collaborations between science and science education in translating concepts of the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) into understandings and behaviours that will enable reduction in noncommunicable disease risk in current and future generations.
A graduate of the University of Auckland, Jacquie was formerly Head of Science at Diocesan School for Girls. In 1999 she conducted research that showed the value of student-led research in promoting understanding of science. This has led to the development of the LENScience Mentor programme. This programme provides opportunities for students to engage in research, supported by scaffolded teaching, alongside access to resources and mentors from the university community.
Jacquie is known for her innovative use of ICT tools in science classrooms. In 2008, working with Kordia and the University of Auckland ITS division, she co-developed the award winning LENScience Connect learning platform, utilising a combination of satellite or web broadcast with Web 2.0 to bring students and scientists from throughout New Zealand together for interactive learning programmes.
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New Zealand - The Liggins Institute, The National Research Centre for Growth and Development, The Allan Wilson Centre, The Bio-Protection Research Centre, The Centre for Brain Research.
Past President, Biology Educators Association of New Zealand - International - The University of Southampton
Teaching programmes designed for LENScience
- Healthy Start to Life Education Programme
- LENScience Bio-Med Summer School
- LENScience Connect
- LENScience Face to Face
- LENScience Senior Biology Seminar Series
- LENScience Students as Researchers
- LENScience Teacher Professional Development
- Grace M & Bay JL (2011) Developing a pedagogy to support science for health literacy Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 12, Issue 2, Forward
- Bay J, Rice K, Burrell T. (2011) Nurturing the Seed for Lifelong Learning, NZ Science Teacher, 128, 2011, 42-43
- France B, Mora HA, Bay JL.(2011) Changing Perspectives: Exploring a pedagogy to examine other perspectives about stem cell research, International Journal of Science Education, DOI:10.1080/09500693.2011.630427
- Gluckman P, Low F, Bay J. (2011) The value of evidence-based life skills education. In: Improving the Transition: reducing social and psychological morbidity during adolescence. A report from the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor. Auckland: Office of the Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee, 2011
- France B et Bay J (2011) Les multiples dimensions des questions socialement vives – Développer une pédagogie adaptée en Nouvelle Zélande. In: Legardez. A et Simonneaux L. (Coordinateurs) Développement durale et autres questions d’actualité. Questions socialement vives dans l’enseignement el la formation. Educargi editions 2011
- Bay JL, Meylan R, Leaman J, Gibbs, S, Beedle A (2010) Engaging Young New Zealanders with Science: Priorities for Action in School Science Education. In: Looking Ahead: Science Education for the Twenty-First Century. A report from the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor. Auckland: Office of the Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee, 2010
- France B, Bay JL (2010) Questions Students Ask: Bridging the gap between scientists and students in a research institute classroom. International Journal of Science Education 32(2):173-94.
- Bay JL, Mora HA. (2010) Me, Myself, My Environment: Nutrition, New Zealand Curriculum Level 4. Auckland: Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland. 2010
- Bay JL, Mora HA. (2010) Me, Myself, My Environment: Nutrition, New Zealand Curriculum Level 4 Teacher Resource Auckland: Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland. 2010
- Bay JL and Mora HA (2010) LENScience Bio-Med Summer ’10 Student Handboo k, Auckland: Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland. 2010
- Bay JL (2009) Evolution of secondary school biology education in New Zealand: Impact of changes in biological science from 1878 to 2008, New Zealand Science Review, 66, (3), 118-122, 2009
- Bay JL, Mora HA. (2009) Me, Myself, My Environment: Growing Up, New Zealand Curriculum Level 5 Teacher Resource. Auckland: Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland. 2009
- Bay JL (2009) Biology Education - looking back as we move forward, New Zealand Science Teacher, 120, 43
- Bay JL, STONE M. (2008) The Place of Human Biology in the Senior Biology Curriculum, New Zealand Science Teacher, 118, 41-42
Ministry of Education LEOTC Grant: LENScience Face to Face 2009 - 2012
KAREN Capability Build Fund: LENScience Connect ‘09 2009
National Research Centre for Growth and Development Pilot Grant: LENScience Connect 2009
National Research Centre for Growth and Development Pilot Grant: Community Education (with K Franko) 2009
Friedlander Foundation: LENScience Summer School Student Support Grant 2007, 2008, 2009
Logan Campbell Residuary Trust: LENScience Programme Support Grant 2008, 2009, 2010
National Research Centre for Growth and Development: E-Learning Development Grant 2010-2011
Te Puni Kōkiri (Ministry for Māori Development): LENScience Māori and Pacific Education Programme Grant 2010-2012
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