Kay Yeoman is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the UEA. She is a microbiologist lecturing in microbiology and molecular biology. In addition, she runs an undergraduate module in science communication and is the Director of the Biology with Science Communication degree programme. She is a member of the Society for General Microbiology, on the committee for education for the British Mycological Society and is a science advisor for the Norwich Castle Museum. In 2007 she was awarded the UEA teaching excellence prize and also a Wellcome Trust Peoples Award for the ‘Mobile Family Science Laboratory’, which travels throughout Norfolk to provide hands-on biomedical-related science activities for children and adults of all ages. She was awarded the CueEast Public Engagement Award in 2010. 

Kay is married with two sons and sits on the Education Committee.