A summer full of variety
Lots of innovations in chemistry education
It has been an incredibly busy summer and I am literally writing this on the train home from the Variety in Chemistry Education conference, held in Liverpool on 29 and 30 August. What a fantastic event it was and good to be joined with the Physics Higher Education Conference for the second year.
Liverpool University were superb hosts and the conference venue was the stunning new Central Teaching Hub. This saw some of my academic colleagues turn absolutely green with envy on a tour of these amazingly well-designed laboratory and teaching facilities.
I thought it was quite appropriate that so many of the latest innovations in teaching design and practice were being showcased in this state of the art teaching complex, which is shared between several scientific disciplines. Topics, as usual, varied widely (hence the conference title!). One of the favourites this year was lecture flipping from Michael Seery. I also attended a very engaging workshop by Jane Essex and Katherine Haxton to get a real hands-on experience of her Victorian Pharmacy project. It is really satisfying to seeEiC articles being used as outreach resources.
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