Sophie Thompson-Lee

Dr Sophie Thompson-Lee is a postdoctoral researcher on the project ‘Rethinking teacher recruitment: New approaches to attracting prospective STEM teaching’.

She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and an MA in Applied Linguistics for Language Teaching (University of York, UK), and a BSc in Psychology (University of Bangor, UK).

Her research focuses on teacher recruitment and retention, specifically for STEM subjects, and career motivations of young people.

Her teaching experience includes quantitative research methods, child language acquisition, phonetics and phonology, and English for academic purposes.

Selected Presentations

• Saiger, MJ., Cutting, J., Thompson-Lee, S., Snell, R., Klassen, R., & Slawson, D. (2024, August 12-14). Exploring motivations and barriers to teaching: a game-based approach. Earli SIG 11 &13 conference, Oxford, UK.    
• Thompson-Lee, S., See, B. H., & Klassen, R. M., (2024, August 12-14). A systematic review of STEM teacher recruitment and retention interventions. Earli SIG 11 & 13 conference, Oxford UK     
• Thompson-Lee, S., Saiger, M.J., Cutting, J., Snell, R. J., Klassen, R. M., & Slawson, D. (2024, May 1). TeachQuest. Inclusive Gaming conference, Oxford UK.   
• Thompson-Lee, S., Snell, R., & Klassen, R.M. (2024, July). Gender Differences in Response to a STEM Teacher Recruitment Intervention. Presented at the biannual meeting of the Gender and STEM conference, Heidelberg, Germany   
• Snell, R., Thompson-Lee, S., & Klassen, R. M. (2024, July). STEM Teacher Motivation from a Gendered Perspective: A Qualitative Study. Presented at the biannual meeting of the Gender and STEM conference, Heidelberg, Germany.