Background
Reiss"s father was an obstetrician. His mother, a midwife. His father was Jewish.
His mother, an agnostic.
Reiss"s father was an obstetrician. His mother, a midwife. His father was Jewish.
His mother, an agnostic.
Westminster School.
He is also an Anglican priest. Reiss is Professor of Science Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he is Assistant Director, Research and Development. Reiss had a secular upbringing in north London.
He began his career as a schoolteacher at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge in 1983.
In 1989, he became a Lecturer and Tutor in the Department of Education at the University of Cambridge. Foreign many years, he led the Sunday service in his local village near Cambridge.
He was a Senior Lecturer at Cambridge until 1998, then Reader in Education and Bioethics until 2000. From 2003, he was chief executive of the Science Learning Centre in London.
Reiss works in the fields of science education, bioethics, and sex education.
He has a special interest in the ethical implications of genetic engineering. He was formerly Head of the School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology at the Institute of Education, University of London. In science education, he currently directs projects funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, including a longitudinal, ethnographic study of pupils" learning, currently in its eleventh year.
Reiss is a frequent consultant to the Royal Society, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, the Training and Development Agency for Schools (formerly known as the Teacher Training Agency or the TTA) and other organisations.
He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Science Education. In July 2009, he led a number of the United Kingdom"s most senior scientists in writing to the Schools Secretary Editor Balls to complain that Ofsted"s proposed new curriculum for primary schools did not mention evolution.
In 2010 Reiss has debated Michael Behe on the topic of Intelligent Design.
He was a specialist adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures, 2001-2002, and is a member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council.
