First Year — Blog — Michael O'Neill

Reflections on my experiences of doing a highly-theoretical maths course in the first year of my Chemistry degree

I’ve thought a lot about how to teach Frost diagrams. This blog post is my attempt to share my reflections over the last 5-or-so years.

On Sequencing Transition Metal Chemistry

Transition metal chemistry could be taught more smoothly if it came after group theory. What kind of shuffling could we do to make this work?

Obituary: Stuart Warren

Should the first Inorganic tutorial topic for incoming Chemists be ionic bonding or effective nuclear charge?

Reflections on my year-by-year changes to a first year group work module.

Investigation: Weighting First Year

A brief account of student-as-partner research into student views on the classification algorithm.

A very brief communication of a student-as-partner project investigating why first year students don’t turn up to workshops.