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Simon Festing

Simon Festing is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Simon Festing rather than just read about it. In short: Simon Festing is Head of Governance and Risk at the Dogs Trust. Education Festing graduated in 1987 as a Bachelor of Medicine from the London Hospital Medical College.

Key takeaways

Simon Festing belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Simon Festing to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Simon Festing from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Simon Festing is Head of Governance and Risk at the Dogs Trust.

Education Festing graduated in 1987 as a Bachelor of Medicine from the London Hospital Medical College. He worked as a medical doctor for three years before leaving medicine in 1990 to study Environmental Technology at Imperial College, graduating with an MSc in 1991.

Career Festing did voluntary work for Greenpeace from 1992 to 1994, before joining Friends of the Earth in 1994, where he was employed as their transport and wildlife campaigner until 1998. He worked as a campaign leader for Help the Aged from 1998–1999, then became Director of Public Dialogue for the Association of Medical Research Charities, an umbrella group representing 100 medical-research charities, a post he held from 2000 until 2004, when he joined the Research Defence Society (RDS). He was chief executive of Understanding Animal Research (formerly RDS) from 2004 until June 2011. After this he was Chief Executive af a number of charities and professional bodies, including the Microbiology Society, Chartered Institution for Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), and the British Healthcare Trades Association.

Public profile In December 2005, Festing appeared on a British reality TV show, The Devil's Challenge, in which he was subjected to procedures used in animal labs, later engaging in an online debate with John Curtin, an animal-rights activist.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Simon Festing

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Simon Festing claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Simon Festing before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Simon Festing ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Simon Festing

In research: Simon Festing appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Simon Festing in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Simon Festing is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Alumni of Imperial College London, Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College, Animal testing in the United Kingdom, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Simon Festing outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Simon Festing in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Simon Festing means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Simon Festing out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Simon Festing in simple terms?

Simon Festing is Head of Governance and Risk at the Dogs Trust. Education Festing graduated in 1987 as a Bachelor of Medicine from the London Hospital Medical College.

Why does Simon Festing matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Simon Festing?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Simon Festing.