Pam is a Research Fellow in the School of Education at the University of Southampton and she is also responsible for course evaluation and market research for the Science Learning Centre South East (SLCSE). Recent projects include evaluation of the Chemistry at Work programme (for Royal Society of Chemistry); 'Me, my health and my children’s health' (funded by Wellcome People Award); teaching science and maths outdoors (funded by Astra Zeneca); and exploring post-16 psychology professional development needs (SLCSE). She is currently doing a PhD which focuses on the teaching of the origin of life in secondary school science and RE classrooms. Before working in academia, Pam was involved in market, social and media research in a variety of organisations including the Independent Television Commission, the British Board of Film Classification and the Co-operative Wholesale Society. She has also worked as a journalist on Which? magazine.

• Journal Articles
• Hanley, Pam, Maringe, Felix and Ratcliffe, Mary (2008) Evaluation of professional development: deploying a process-focused model. International Journal of Science Education, 30, (5), 711-725
• Grace, Marcus, Hanley, Pam and Johnson, Sue (2008) ‘Darwin-inspired’ science: teachers’ views, approaches and needs. School Science Review (In Press)
• Grace, Marcus, Hanley, Pam, Johnson, Sue and Sanders, Amy (2008) What do teachers think about ‘Darwin-inspired’ science? Science Teacher Education, 52, 33-35. (In Press)
• Hanley, Pam, Osborne, Jonathan and Ratcliffe, Mary (2008) Teaching twenty first century science. School Science Review, 90, (330), 105-112.
• Selection of International Conference Papers
• Hanley, Pam, Ratcliffe, Mary and Osborne, Jonathan (2007) Teachers’ experiences of teaching ‘ideas-about-science’ and socio-scientific issues. In, European Science Education Association Conference (ESERA) 2007, Malmo, Sweden, 21-25 Aug 2007. , 12pp
• Ratcliffe, Mary and Hanley, Pam (2005) Evaluation of professional development strategies for bringing contemporary science into the classroom. In, European Science Education Research Association Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Aug 2005