New Perspectives in Science Education

Poh Tan is currently completing her second PhD in Education from Simon Fraser University where her thesis focuses on decentering dominant ways of teaching and learning science, specifically through an Indigenous Hawaiian framework and storytelling. Her first PhD was obtained from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, where she focused on the biology of blood stem cells. She is a research fellow at Science World and Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association, Vancouver's science museum and urban garden. She is founder and CEO of STEMedge Inc., a STEM educational consulting company. Poh has practiced STEM outreach with K-12 students in the community space for over 20 years and frequently trains science facilitators who bring STEM to the public.