About Us
Providers of online chemistry teaching & learning resources
What We're All About
“There is no substitute for practical experience”
Our Vision
Who We Are

Simulators for Teaching Limited was formed by a team of experts in scientific instrumentation and teaching.
Our aim is to make sophisticated laboratory experiments affordable for every teaching laboratory and available to every science student.
Modern scientific instruments are invariably driven from a computer screen. The experience of running our simulators is indistinguishable from the real thing.

Meet our Founder
Dr Linda Swanson
Founder
Dr Linda Swanson, one of the founders of Simulators for Teaching Ltd, has a strong academic background in UK universities: she has lectured at Lancaster University and ultimately, served as a senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield.
Linda has extensive experience in devising practical teaching experiments aimed at undergraduate university science students and has developed lecture courses and support material for physical science students. Furthermore, she has more than 20 years “hands on experience” of teaching science students in teaching laboratories.
Linda brings an exciting combination of academic, research and business expertise to the company.

Our Associates & Partners
Milamber Ventures plc
Sim4t is proud to be associated with Milamber Ventures Plc, who provide advisory services and invest in education businesses. The following quote is from Andy Hasoon, Chairman of Milamber, who sees the virtue and excitement of using simulators in science teaching:
“Digital technologies are innovating the way we learn, and we have to adapt the legacy methodologies we use to make education better. If we look back in history, the “Lecture and Scribe” methodology stemmed from the Monastic tradition and lasted hundreds of years. The “Case Study” was introduced in 1890’s – creating a two-way dialogue around a real-world example. But it was the “Simulation” that started to be used in the 1930’s to keep young pilots alive and from destroying expensive planes.
A vital part of science education is practical laboratory experiments. Learning by doing. However, the provision of laboratory classes is expensive for traditional Universities and is a major challenge for organisations involved in online or distance learning. Clearly, world class science teaching needs to involve training using world class equipment. Simulators for Teaching (Sim4t) are developing and selling world class science experiments based on simulators. These enable Universities, Colleges and Schools, to provide better science education, at lower cost, to a wider range of students.
Let us give you a simple example: A “Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer” costs around £80,000, putting it outside the reach of most teaching laboratories. The simulator based experiment produced by Sim4T costs £1,000 and is therefore easily affordable and much more accessible as it can be used in laboratories or in a distance or online learning environment.
On a personal note my degree was in Bio Medical Engineering, and Bio Medical Materials Science from Queen Mary and Westfield College part of University of London. When Linda and her team showed me the Sim4t simulations the value proposition, flexibility, and massive cost savings were evident immediately which is why Milamber is supporting Sim4t.com in getting these products into learning organisations in the UK and around the world.”
Andy Hasoon, Chairman
Milamber Ventures plc

Sector Leaders
We are an innovative company among the first to deliver online Chemistry/Science experiments using simulators
Learn at Your Own Pace
Work through our carefully designed experiments using our simulators with your device/laptop
Professional Documentation
Each experiment comes with its own set of lecture notes & procedure developed by experts in Chemistry/Science Teaching