Elizabeth A.C. Rushton is Lecturer in Geography Education at King's College London, UK. She has worked within education as a high school teacher, and as Director of Evaluation for an education charity that supports school student participation in STEM research. Her research considers young people's experience of science in formal and informal settings and teacher professional development through collaborations with researchers and mentoring school student research.

Chapter 1. Science Education and Teacher Professional Development.- Chapter 2. Science Teacher Identity.- Chapter 3. Research approach, context, methods and results.- Chapter 4. Freedom to teach.- Chapter 5. Re(connection) with science/research.- Chapter 6. Collaboration.- Chapter 7. Professional development.- Chapter 8. Student and societal development through research.- Chapter 9. A model of the teacher scientist identity.