Team & tutors
“We inspire your child to think beyond the school curriculum and to apply their knowledge to solve real-life problems”.
We employ a range of tutors and mentors: primary and secondary school teachers, Masters, PhD students and post-doctoral researchers. Our tutors and mentors are specialists in their subjects.
Dr Rafael
Co-Founder and Director
Rafael is a Doctor of Education who graduated from University College London (UCL). Before his doctorate, Rafael accomplished his Master’s studies in School Improvement and School Effectiveness, also at UCL. Rafael’s research interests are social mobility, emotions, feelings and motivations, and experiences of groups of children and parents in relation to a learning environment.
Rafael is a highly experienced, fully qualified teacher in the United Kingdom (UK). Rafael taught mathematics and several languages (Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese) while being a secondary school teacher in inner London schools. In addition, Rafael trained and mentored teachers to gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in the UK. Notably, Rafael sat in the Department for Education’s steering group, playing a pivotal role in defining and instilling the Department for Education’s Summer School policy in the UK. Thereafter, Rafael was recognised by the Department of Education for his services to education.
Rafael is passionate about education based on his core values and beliefs of learning, respect, confidence, ambition and resilience. He continues to build capacity and sustainability to raise standards by making educational settings an even more attractive place to work and by enhancing the reputation and effectiveness of educational settings.
Sian
Co-Founder and Director
Sian is in the final stages of writing her doctoral thesis at University College London (UCL) on children’s perceptions and understanding of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) subjects. She is a specialist in STEAM education, a chartered science teacher, and a member of the Royal Society of Biology.
Before her doctoral studies, Sian obtained a Master’s in Science Education also at UCL, a PGCE in Science with Biology (University of Greenwich), and a BSc degree in Biomedical Sciences (University College London). During her teaching career, Sian mentored and trained teachers to gain Qualified Teacher Status in the United Kingdom. Sian’s practical and engaging approach equips tutors and mentors with techniques that consistently produce outstanding results. She proactively promotes educational activities for children and teenagers by designing and delivering educational projects with an aim to bring subjects to the ‘real world’.
Sian’s passion is founded on children exploring and learning STEAM subjects beyond the school curriculum through a range of hands-on activities, experiments, group work and demonstrations. She encourages children to develop their independence, resilience, problem-solving skills and teamwork from a young age.
Camilla
Board Advisor
Camilla has a solid background in finance with origination, marketing and execution responsibility for corporate finance transactions covering the entire capital structure.
Camilla has a genuine personal interest in delivering the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) learning experience in a fun, non-traditional environment. She has dedicated part of her time to support educational initiatives aimed to strive for children to achieve their maximum potential developing a growth mindset attitude for studies and in their approach to everyday’s life.
Camilla is now focusing on empowering the next generation of coders, app developers, game designers, engineers, and innovators, including her daughter. Chairman of a School PTA association, Camilla Supports Richer Education in institutional business development by reaching directly to schools, museums, parents associations and corporates within the education sector.
Dr Rebecca
Lead Science Advisor
Rebecca has always been interested in the life sciences and in particular human cell and molecular biology. She gained a BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Southampton and went on to study for a PhD in lung cell biology also at Southampton.
Rebecca has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London for several years investigating the role of white blood cells in chronic lung diseases. Rebecca works with schools to encourage students from underprivileged backgrounds to pursue the sciences at university. Rebecca is passionate about science communication and has experience of teaching all key stages from Year 1 school pupils to undergraduate Medical and Biomedical Sciences university students. She has developed and delivered many age-appropriate scientific workshops and prides herself on her ability to explain difficult concepts to a younger audience