Outputs (27)

10 years of curriculum change viewed through the lens of student workload (2023)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

Developing the Scientific Reporting Skills of Chemistry Students (2020)
Book Chapter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

International Group Work For Sustainable Development (2017)
Presentation / Conference

Bring Back Pen Pals: International Group Work for Sustainable Development (2016)
Presentation / Conference

What does the word chemical mean to you? (2016)
Journal Article

Evaluation of the use of Lecture Recordings in Chemistry Modules (2016)
Journal Article

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitude of students towards lecture recordings used in some Chemistry courses. Student feedback was collected by anonymous questionnaire using a variety of Likert and free-text responses. Students in al... Read More about Evaluation of the use of Lecture Recordings in Chemistry Modules.

Talking Chemical/Diagnosis Progress (2016)
Presentation / Conference

Peer and simple? (2015)
Journal Article

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?.

Teaching with microscale reactions (2015)
Other

Like many chemists, I am fascinated by the visible changes that occur during chemical reactions, yet frustrated by how few reactions are done for the pure joy of seeing a change.

Dendrimer Conjugate of [4-(Tetradecanoylamino)benzyl]phosphonic Acid (S32826) as an Autotaxin Inhibitor. (2013)
Journal Article

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..

International Group Work For Sustainable Development
Presentation / Conference

Lecture capture
Presentation / Conference

Campus-wide lecture capture technology – a way to record lectures – is a major investment for universities, but is hugely popular among students. I started recording my lectures seven years ago with a digital voice recorder with lapel microphone a... Read More about Lecture capture.