Who are we?
Lesley Allen has been a fan of dinosaurs ever since she was taken to the Natural History Museum as a 4 year old child, and then it took her 50 years to save up for a dinosaur of her own. After 10 years teaching in primary schools she combined bringing up her family with a career in science and technology museums around Cornwall. She now works as a freelance museum education consultantn and part-time A Level Geology lecturer. Recent contracts include Lyme Regis Museum (on the site of Mary Anning’s House), the National Maritime Museum Cornwall (Falmouth) and King Edward Mine Heritage Centre (World Heritage Site). What she enjoys most, however, is sharing her prehistoric passion with children of all ages from 0-100, and this roadshow is her way of getting dinosaurs into the classroom and achieving that. She has a Bachelor of Education and a BSc Honours in Geology and Palaeontology as well as having an MSc in Museum Education and a dinosaur in her dining room.
Helping behind the scenes is Baz Goodman who was also hooked on science as a child and had a chemistry lab in the garden shed complete with a Bunsen burner and a white coat. He eventually studied physics at Exeter University, culminating in a teaching career that has covered secondary science, primary and special needs teaching. In his spare time he is currently working towards another degree in Astronomy and Cosmology which entails very, VERY long sums, nearly as long as a diplodocus, so these roadshows are something of a light relief when he has time to come along and help out.
Eliott Roe was brought up on a diet of rocks, minerals and fossils so he didn't have much choice about whether he liked them or not. Luckily dinosaurs are always a winner so even as a teenager he was reasonably interested in them. He has now also become an expert at envelope stuffing and loading boxes of fossils into the back of the car.
