Andrew started his lectureship position in November 2022. Teaching responsibilities now include supervising final year MBiol integrated masters students and delivering course material in bioinformatics, genomics, data science and cancer to University of York undergraduates.
York brought in semesters in September 2023, bringing an opportunity to revisit all teaching delivered in the department. Andrew is helping to bring more omics and informatics into BSc Biology at York through a revised skills in bioinformatics 2nd year course strand, and a brand new 3rd year Genomics module. Andrew is also teaching on the new upskilling MSc in Bioinformatics, including as module organiser for the Advanced Research Topics in Bioinformatics module, providing a research seminar and project supervision.
We are also supporting omics and statistics teaching for PhD students and continuing to develop Elixir material at York.
Andrew completed his University of York Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice (PGCAP) in Summer 2024, gaining Fellowship status from AdvanceHE. This followed on from Andrew's Associate Fellowship gained in 2016 whilst at The University of Edinburgh.
Read more about this process here.
2021 ELIXIR-UK Data Stewardship Training Fellow
Awarded: May 22, 2024
Awarded To: Andrew Mason
University teaching experience
11/2022 - present
10/2018 - 11/2019
10/2014 - 12/2016
University of York Lecturer in Cancer Informatics
University of York Biology tutor (20h)
University of Edinburgh Biology demonstrator, marker and tutor (301h)
Course material
2024-11-20 Genomics 3 - Workshop 5: scRNAseq
2024-11-08 Genomics 3 - Workshop 4: RNAseq
2024-03-22 BABS4 - Data Workshop 4
2024-03-21 Introduction to cBioPortal
2024-03-11 BABS4 - Data Workshop 3
2024-02-27 Introduction to cBioPortal - 59M/68M tutorial
2023-11-10 Genomics 3 - Workshop 4: RNAseq
2023-05-30 BMS Bitesize: Introduction to Statistics
2023-01-11 Introduction to cBioPortal
Private tutoring
Andrew has over 200 hours experience of private one-to-one tutoring in Biology, Chemistry and Maths at GCSE, Scottish National 5 and Scottish Higher levels, and has availability for new students.
Please contact Andrew for more information, rates and availability.
School outreach
As a STEM ambassador and associate of Simon Baker's ENTHUSE project with the National STEM Learning Centre and York Against Cancer, Andrew is currently helping teachers in multiple secondary skills bring applied research examples and mathematical skills into GCSE and A Level Biology.
Session material
2023-06 York Against Cancer Enthuse partnership bioinformatics session: using cBioPortal to explore TP53 mutations