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Dr Felicity McLure is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Charles Darwin University. She taught Science and was Head of Science for 13 years in international and Australian schools. Her research interests are in Learning Environments, student-generated multiple representations to support conceptual understanding and written explanations in science, integrated STEM education and gender, as well as school improvement through system-wide reform. She has published a number of papers examining the classroom emotional climate, specifically in integrated STEM classes and the effect of the emotional climate on gender-based engagement and motivation. At present she is working on a project with colleagues from Curtin University to understand the classroom discourse practices of STEM integration. She has also published extensively about a multidimensional conceptual change approach to teaching science, the Thinking Frames Approach. This approach uses the affordance of student-generated multiple representations to develop students’ conceptual understanding, written explanations of scientific phenomena and to support student self-efficacy and engagement with science.