Ian Harvey is Head of Biology at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge as well as being staff governor. He is a Patron of the Cambridge Science Festival, co-ordinator for the Cambridge Biology Network, Trustee of STEM team East, a STEM Ambassador, lay member of the Babraham Institute Animal Welfare, Ethics and Experimentation Committee, Vice-Chair and Education Officer for the East Anglia Branch of the Society of Biology and a member of the national Society of Biology Education Committee and the Biochemical Society Education Committee. Ian created and runs Big Biology Day, which is now firmly established as a key component of national Biology Week each October.