Dr Helen Eccles
Dr Helen Eccles started her career in education teaching chemistry and physics and writing A Level Chemistry examination papers. She joined Cambridge’s UK exam board, OCR and was responsible for setting standards for curriculum and assessments. She then joined Cambridge International as a Director, working with international governments on national education systems, and with UK regulator Ofqual, on national syllabus and assessment design and implementation.
Dr Eccles has maintained her interest in science throughout her career, building on postdoctoral work in cancer research and electron spin spectroscopy. She has a particular interest in practical science and its assessment and is the author of several chemistry textbooks and a reference work on the Periodic Table.