Research in Science Education - Meet the Editors: Wendy Nielsen & Kok-Sing Tang

Wendy Nielsen is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Wollongong. She holds a B.Sc. and Secondary Life Science Teaching Certification from California Lutheran University and MA and PhD from the University of British Columbia. Her research is primarily focused on primary preservice teacher learning and in particular, using digital technologies for learning while generating multiple representations and creating digital explanations. Recent work involves helping science teachers integrate literacy activities to enhance students’ writing skills in science.

Kok-Sing Tang is Director of Graduate Research and Associate Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University. He holds a BA and MSc in Physics from the University of Cambridge and a MA and PhD in Education from the University of Michigan. His research examines the role of language, discourse, and multimodality in supporting scientific literacy, and more recently in generative AI. Kok-Sing is a founding leader of the ESERA Special Interest Group Languages & Literacies in Science Education.