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10 years of curriculum change viewed through the lens of student workload (2023)
Journal Article
Haxton, K. J. (2023). 10 years of curriculum change viewed through the lens of student workload. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/4czv-h521

The past decade has seen significant changes to the Chemistry course at Keele including two curriculum reviews, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a more gradual evolution of how we teach, particularly including flipped classroom methods. Student workload pr... Read More about 10 years of curriculum change viewed through the lens of student workload.

Thinglink and the Laboratory: Interactive Simulations of Analytical Instrumentation for HE Science Curricula (2022)
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Jeffery, A. J., Rogers, S. L., Pringle, J. K., Zholobenko, V. L., Jeffery, K. L., Wisniewski, K. D., …Emley, D. W. (2022). Thinglink and the Laboratory: Interactive Simulations of Analytical Instrumentation for HE Science Curricula. Journal of Chemical Education, 2277-2290. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c01067

Access to laboratory facilities and associated instrumentation represents a major barrier to learning in physical science education, due to constraints introduced by limited time and financial resources, cost 20 of acquisition, and health and safety... Read More about Thinglink and the Laboratory: Interactive Simulations of Analytical Instrumentation for HE Science Curricula.

From Nantwich to Oxygen: Public Engagement in Chemistry at a Local History Museum (2021)
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Cooke, H., Dobbs, H. L., Haxton, K., Parmeggiani, F., & Skerratt, G. (2021). From Nantwich to Oxygen: Public Engagement in Chemistry at a Local History Museum. Journal of Chemical Education, 98(4), 1249-1255. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01152

Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen, lived in Nantwich, Cheshire, UK, from 1758 to 1761. In 2019, an exhibition featuring his life and achievements, and also celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table, was developed by the Nantwich M... Read More about From Nantwich to Oxygen: Public Engagement in Chemistry at a Local History Museum.

What are educators thinking right now? (2020)
Journal Article
Turner, K., & Haxton, K. (2020). What are educators thinking right now?. Education in Chemistry,

OPINION PIECE Find out how a secondary school teacher and HE lecturer view the situation for chemistry education in the UK right now

Chinese Students’ Expectations Versus Reality When Studying on a UK-China Transnational Chemistry Degree Program (2019)
Journal Article
Cranwell, P. B., Edwards, M. G., Jane Haxton, K., Hyde, J., Page, E. M., Plana, D., …Wright, J. S. (2019). Chinese Students’ Expectations Versus Reality When Studying on a UK-China Transnational Chemistry Degree Program. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i14.3325

An extensive study has been conducted into the experiences of Chinese chemistry students studying on transnational education (TNE) programs at four UK institutions partnered with Chinese universities; in particular, student expectations regarding stu... Read More about Chinese Students’ Expectations Versus Reality When Studying on a UK-China Transnational Chemistry Degree Program.

International Group Work for Sustainable Chemistry (2019)
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Haxton, K., & Darton, R. (2019). International Group Work for Sustainable Chemistry. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, https://doi.org/10.29311/ndtps.v0i14.2821

As part of a transnational degree programme, students in the UK and China were linked together to carry out group work. This was enabled by having two versions of our FHEQ Level 4 Sustainable Chemistry module; in person for UK students, and by distan... Read More about International Group Work for Sustainable Chemistry.

Diagnostic tests for better teaching (2018)
Journal Article
Haxton, K. (2018). Diagnostic tests for better teaching. Education in Chemistry,

Benchmarking students’ ability after any transition between levels of study allows tailored teaching, but requires careful question design. Katherine Haxton shares her tips for where to begin

Learn to embrace the enabling power of tech (2018)
Journal Article
Haxton, K. (2018). Learn to embrace the enabling power of tech. Nature Reviews Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-018-0123

The role of technology in education is continually changing. As technology enables us to record whole lecture courses with ease, shift from pen and paper to electronic note taking, and engage in new and innovative ways, how do we embrace technology w... Read More about Learn to embrace the enabling power of tech.

Characterising patterns of engagement of different participants in a public STEM-based analysis project (2018)
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Essex, J., & Haxton, K. (2018). Characterising patterns of engagement of different participants in a public STEM-based analysis project. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 8(2), 178-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2017.1423128

A STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) analysis project undertaken in the context of a historic visitor site is described. The project offered different types of opportunity for scientific working, and involved four distinct groups... Read More about Characterising patterns of engagement of different participants in a public STEM-based analysis project.

Peer and simple? (2015)
Journal Article
Haxton, K. (2015). Peer and simple?. Education in Chemistry,

Peer assessment – where students mark the work of their classmates – is a popular way of helping students engage with all aspects of a piece of work, and in many cases is a very authentic method of assessment. It’s a valuable activity, providing an o... Read More about Peer and simple?.

Dendrimer Conjugate of [4-(Tetradecanoylamino)benzyl]phosphonic Acid (S32826) as an Autotaxin Inhibitor. (2013)
Journal Article
Fisher, N., Hilton-Bolt, T., G Edwards, M., J Haxton, K., McKenzie, M., Allin, S. M., & Richardson, A. (2014). Dendrimer Conjugate of [4-(Tetradecanoylamino)benzyl]phosphonic Acid (S32826) as an Autotaxin Inhibitor. ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 5(1), 34-39. https://doi.org/10.1021/ml4003106

Autotaxin is an extracellular phospholipase D that catalyzes the hydrolysis of lysophosphatidyl choline (LPC) to bioactive lipid lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). LPA has been implicated in many pathological processes relevant to cancer, including cell mi... Read More about Dendrimer Conjugate of [4-(Tetradecanoylamino)benzyl]phosphonic Acid (S32826) as an Autotaxin Inhibitor..