All Public engagement articles
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Interview‘Outreach is a really important way to boost young people’s access to science’
Meet Gill Reid, incoming RSC president, inorganic chemistry whizz and fervent supporter of young people in the chemical sciences
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News
The RSC President’s Award 2018
What makes this team of six teachers and one technician so inspirational?
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News
The Chemistry for All project
Tamjid Mujtaba shares findings from an ongoing five-year study into barriers and enablers to chemistry for disadvantaged students
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News
Molecular machines roll in for the 2016 chemistry Nobel
Ben Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Fraser Stoddart take chemistry’s top gong for creating a series of nanoscale machines
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Experiment
Chemiluminescence of luminol: a cold light experiment
Show how the energy of a chemical reaction can be given out as light by revealing how a solution of sodium chlorate(I) oxidises an aqueous solution of luminol (3-aminophthalhydrazide) to produce a blue chemiluminescent glow – without any increase in temperature.
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Ideas
#talkaboutchemisty
Kristy Turner finds out what students really think when they hear the word 'chemistry'
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Feature
A centre of excellence
What can be learned from the Bristol ChemLabS centre for excellence in teaching and learning 10 years on? Timothy Harrison, Nicholas Norman and Dudley Shallcross explain
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Feature
What does the word chemical mean to you?
Katherine Haxton discusses a recent survey about the public’s perception of chemistry
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Feature
Chemistry in the museum
Ruth Jarman opens the eyes of trainee teachers to opportunities to help students learn chemistry in informal settings
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Feature
All set for chemistry
Chemistry sets through the years have both weathered and reflected many changes in science and society
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News
Chemistry World science communication competition 2015–16
Opportunity to present in the Faraday lecture theatre at the Royal Institution
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Feature
Layer by layer
Andrew Turley investigates a build-it-yourself 3D printer you can use in your classroom
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Experiment
The ‘Old Nassau’ or Halloween clock reaction
Illustrate dramatic colour changes as a result of redox and precipitation reactions in this vivid demonstration. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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Event News
Science in the spotlight
Kristy Turner talks about her experience of the Science on Stage conference in London
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Event News
A global experiment from the technician’s cupboard
Jan Hodge, technician at a middle school, talks about carrying out the Royal Society of Chemistry's global experiment
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News
25% of public put off chemistry by school
A new survey on public attitudes to chemistry shows the public’s perception is closely tied with their school experience
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