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Highlights from Employment:

• ABC Series Producer (Melbourne)

• BBC Digital Curriculum senior producer primary science,

• Devisor of goamazing.com, hot stuff to engage teenagers and awarded
  "best educational website" in Australia

• Producer and presenter of Science in Action, BBC World Service

• Cbeebies preschool science advisor and guest presenter on Tikkabilla

• BBC producer/director with Schools, Blue Peter, Tomorrow's World and Really Wild Show

• Dep of Education/ABC (Melbourne) Series producer of a live weekly science show;

• Dep of Education (Melbourne) producer of materials for children and
  teachers, and presenter at teacher training days.

Highlights from Education

• PhD in science education

• Grad Dip Ed to teach science and mathematics at secondary level

• classroom teaching experience with primary and secondary school students

• NCTJ (National council for the Training of Journalists) one year diploma

• BA and MA (Oxon) in Physics

Selected Books:

• Billingsley, B. (1991). Space. London: BBC Billingsley, B. (2001).

• Pushing the Limits. Melbourne: Longmans Billingsley, B. & Golding, E.
  (2001). The Cartoon History of the Earth: teaching book. Melbourne: Longmans.

• Billingsley, B ( 2005) "Chapter 6: It's a Small World" in Nardelli, D.
  (ed) Science Alive 3: Sydney: Jacaranda [this is a popular Australian
  science text book]

• Regular articles for Challenge magazine, Labtalk and
  other Australian magazines