On-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.
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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.
Read MoreA review of J Muller’s excellent book with a few reflections on evaluating teaching.
Read MoreI did some scary teaching this year, which I think turned out well. This post describes what I did in a reflective way.
Read MoreMy personal reflections on a really helpful conference.
Read MoreThe QAA is reviewing its subject benchmark statements. I argue that we should include ChemEd in our degrees.
Read MoreFollowing the development of SoTL to better understand my T&S contract, I reflect on Scholarship Assessed by Glassick, Huber, and Maeroff.
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