More about the InnerDrive Head of Teacher Professional Development, and how she helps schools and colleges to develop their evidence-informed practice.
Who is Dr Claire Badger?
- Claire has almost 20 years of experience teaching Chemistry in a variety of secondary schools around England
- She was an assistant head in charge of Teaching & Learning, as well as head of department.
- She has delivered workshops and keynotes to schools and colleges around the world, as well as online.
- She studied Natural Sciences at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and completed a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
- She holds a Masters in Teaching & Learning from UCL Institute of Education.
- She has a PGCE from the University of Buckingham.
- Outside of getting excited about educational research, Claire is a keen singer and musician who has achieved Grade 8 in piano, singing and flute.
What has Claire Badger published?
- Creativity for Teachers: A Cognitive Science Approach (2025) – Co-written with Dr Jonathan Firth
- Contributed a Leadership Insight to Chartered College of Teaching’s From Principle to Practice: Evidence-Informed Leadership
- Gathering better student feedback to evaluate impact (2024)
- A metacognitive approach to developing creativity (2023)
- Using peer teaching to improve effective learning strategies in Year 7 students (2022)
- Remote professional development: Reflections on the research in the context of secondary school CPD programmes during the 2020–21 pandemic (2021)
- Developing Learning Communities (2021)
- Cognitive load theory in practice (2020)
- Using technology to promote metacognition (2019)
- Improving metacognition through explicit instruction of learning strategies (2018)