Dr Gillian Turner
Senior Lecturer - Physics
School of Chemical and Physical Sciences
address
Phone: 04 463 6478
Fax: 04 463 5237
Location: Room 521, Laby Building, Gate 7 Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus
Currently Teaching
PHYS 305 - Thermal Physics
Course Lecturer
Research Interests
Palaeomagnetism, geomagnetism
My research interests involve the Earth’s magnetic field, particularly its polarity reversals and secular variation, and what they mean for the geodynamo in Earth’s core.
Our research group maintains collaborations with the University of California at Davis and the Australian National University, Canberra, as well as Waikato and Otago Universities in New Zealand.
Other interests
I am passionate about effective physics teaching and the promotion of science amongst school students and their teachers. We organise workshops for school physics teachers and have introduced the SCPS Schools Programme, when groups of school children visit and have fun experiencing physics and chemistry for themselves.