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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)
Journal Article
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.

Decolonising the Science Curriculum (2022)
Report
Haxton, K., Karodia, N., Taylor, P., Williams, N. A., & Lalemi, L. (2022). Decolonising the Science Curriculum. Advance HE

Advance HE recognises there are different voices with differing views and approaches in the provision of higher education from around the world, this includes how insitution's may choose to enhance their curricula.

This project is part of the 202... Read More about Decolonising the Science Curriculum.

From Nantwich to Oxygen: Public Engagement in Chemistry at a Local History Museum (2021)
Journal Article
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.

Developing the Scientific Reporting Skills of Chemistry Students (2020)
Book Chapter
McGarvey, D., Beaumont, K., Capel, N., Hancock, L., Haxton, K., Hollamby, M., …Plana, D. (2020). Developing the Scientific Reporting Skills of Chemistry Students. In On Your Marks: Learner-Focused Feedback Practices and Feedback Literacy. Advance HE

Developing the Scientific Reporting Skills of Chemistry Students (2020)
Book Chapter
Capel, N., McGarvey, D., Beaumont, K., Hancock, L., Haxton, K., Jones, R., …Plana, D. (2020). Developing the Scientific Reporting Skills of Chemistry Students. In On Your Marks: Learner-Focused Feedback Practices and Feedback Literacy. Advance HE

The publication contains a diverse range of expertise in assessment and feedback, bringing together experts in a number of disciplines to present ideas on learner-centred feedback.

The main goal of the collection is to showcase learner-focused fee... Read More about Developing the Scientific Reporting Skills of Chemistry Students.

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)
Journal Article
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.

ChemScapes: an Adaptable Chemistry Escape Room Challenge (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Haxton, K. (2019, August). ChemScapes: an Adaptable Chemistry Escape Room Challenge. Presented at ariety in Chemistry Education / Physics Higher Education Conference 2019, Bristol

Escape rooms are increasing in popularity and the basic premise lends itself well to outreach activities: complete tasks to obtain clues and escape the room. We have adapted the format for use in a laboratory setting, creating a set of challenges tha... Read More about ChemScapes: an Adaptable Chemistry Escape Room Challenge.

Social, Economic, and Political Contexts for Chemistry Through Sustainability. (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Haxton, K. (2019, August). Social, Economic, and Political Contexts for Chemistry Through Sustainability. Presented at Variety in Chemistry Education / Physics Higher Education Conference 2019

Chemistry has a complex relationship with society: on one hand income generator and employer, on the other polluter and exploiter. Chemistry students must, through their undergraduate degrees, learn to place their core chemical concepts in the wider... Read More about Social, Economic, and Political Contexts for Chemistry Through Sustainability..

Undergraduate screencast presentations with self-, peer-, and tutor-assessment (2019)
Book Chapter
Haxton. (2019). Undergraduate screencast presentations with self-, peer-, and tutor-assessment. In Teaching Chemistry in Higher Education (265 - 282)

The aim of this work is to describe the use of screencast presentations with first year undergraduate chemistry students to enable presentations to take place without significant timetable demands. I also describe self- and peer- assessment protocols... Read More about Undergraduate screencast presentations with self-, peer-, and tutor-assessment.

Developing Scientific Reporting Skills of Early Undergraduate Chemistry Students (2019)
Book Chapter
Capel, N. J., Hancock, L. M., Haxton, K. J., Hollamby, M. J., Jones, R. H., Plana, D., & Mcgarvey, D. J. (2019). Developing Scientific Reporting Skills of Early Undergraduate Chemistry Students. In Teaching Chemistry in Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Tina Overton (333 - 333 (348)). Creathach Press

Our aim is to initiate the development of selected generic skills of early undergraduate chemistry students by focussing on scientific reporting skills. To achieve this, we have developed an approach that draws upon chemistry journal articles as para... Read More about Developing Scientific Reporting Skills of Early Undergraduate Chemistry Students.

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)
Journal Article
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.

Diels Alder-mediated release of gemcitabine from hybrid nanoparticles for enhanced pancreatic cancer therapy (2017)
Journal Article
Oluwasanmi, A., Al-Shakarchi, W., Manzur, A., Aldebasi, M. H., Elsini, R. S., Albusair, M. K., …Hoskins, C. (2017). Diels Alder-mediated release of gemcitabine from hybrid nanoparticles for enhanced pancreatic cancer therapy. Journal of Controlled Release, 355-364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2017.09.027

Hybrid nanoparticles (HNPs) have shown huge potential as drug delivery vehicles for pancreatic cancer. Currently, the first line treatment, gemcitabine, is only effective in 23.8% of patients. To improve this, a thermally activated system was develop... Read More about Diels Alder-mediated release of gemcitabine from hybrid nanoparticles for enhanced pancreatic cancer therapy.