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A reflective review of Paul Ashwin’s recent book Transforming University Education: A Manifesto. The book is a thoughtful and coherent case for focusing on the interaction of the student with the discipline when we think about the value of Higher Education.
Read MoreReflections form the literature on how the form of the postdoc role might influence the way that doctoral students are socialised into academic Chemistry.
Read MoreThe RSC has policies to support LGBT+ scientists, yet accredits degrees in states where homosexuality is criminalised. This blog post considers the ethics of endorsing degrees in homophobic states, and argues that such accreditation is incompatible with the RSC’s stated ambitions to support LGBT+ scientists.
Read MoreOn-the-day reflections on the award of predicted A Level grades after the coronavirus prevented students sitting assessments.
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An argument for treating the UK HE Chemistry syllabus as a simulacrum of authentic chemistry, and a reflection on some consequences of this treatment.
Read MoreReflections on the literature on the specific task of cosupervising a doctoral student.
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A blog presenting descriptive statistics of ethnicity data in the UK academic Chemistry system
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A new textbook on hypovalent cluster structures. I was hoping to launch this at Dalton 2020, and have blogged my talk as the conference was cancelled due to COVID-19.
Read MoreReflections on Akerlind and McAlpine (2015) as a plausible mechanism for poor cosupervision by good supervisors.
Read MoreReflections on designing the feedback form given to doctoral students after their taught modules
Read MoreShould the first Inorganic tutorial topic for incoming Chemists be ionic bonding or effective nuclear charge?
Read MoreShould we remove Wade’s Rules from Chemistry degree syllabuses? I present three arguments.
Read MoreReflections on the core points in Chakraverty’s 2019 paper on STEM Imposter Phenomenon in the context of the transition into PGR.
Read MoreReflections on how Constructive Alignment might play out in PGR training
Read MoreReflections on my year-by-year changes to a first year group work module.
Read MoreI did my first fully ‘flipped’ lecture this year, and reflect on the process of designing and executing it.
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