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Conference season…done!

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| #DryLabsRealScience, Conferences, Pedagogy, Publications
conference presentation

It’s been a pretty hectic few weeks attending and presenting at a wide range of conferences, some virtual and some in real life. What I have really taken from these events is how much I miss in-person presentations. The very subtle cues that people give off when you are speaking make the experience so much […]

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Impact factor: academic quality or academic snobbery?

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Twitter screenshot - retracting article due to decreased impact factor

I stumbled across a tweet over the weekend that prompted me to write this blog article. As shown in the image, the author has withdrawn an article they wrote because the journal’s impact factor has fallen, which got me thinking: Why are academics so obsessed with impact factors? Firstly, what is impact factor? Impact factor […]

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Let’s not waste a good pandemic!

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Cartoon showing students learning online around a laptop

What lessons have I learnt from teaching through a pandemic? There can be no doubt that COVID-19 has changed the face of education with a move to remote, hybrid or blended learning approaches. However, a benefit of this is that students can now learn at their own pace, work more independently. From my own experience […]

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It’s a no from me

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| Career Development, Conferences

via GIPHY As I’ve become more invested in using technology in my teaching, I’ve started to investigate conferences that would expose me to the latest ideas. Online Educa, which is held in Berlin, is one of the biggest conferences in this area, and it is one that I had hoped to attend this year. However, […]

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My home recording set up

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I allowed one of my recorded lectures to be peer reviewed by a colleague who is currently doing their PGCert in higher education teaching, and they have to peer review other staff teaching as part of one of their modules. They emailed me after I’d sent the video to ask what my recording set-up was […]

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The value of mentoring

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Grand Master Yoda

I’ve just finished a Zoom call with a member of staff who had asked whether I would be willing to mentor them through the next stages of their teaching journey. As well as being very honoured to be asked, it got me thinking about the benefits of mentoring and being mentored. We often talk about […]

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Presentations and more presentations…

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An argument with Ian and Nigel

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for presentations; firstly, I made a virtual return to Bath at the invite of Professor Momna Hejmadi to present at the Faculty of Science, Science Community of Practice in Education (SCoPE) forum. Then on Friday 16th, a last-minute invitation, facilitated by Professor Sally Brown, was received to present […]

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Chat with an educational legend

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Professor Sally Brown

It’s not every day that you have the opportunity to have a one-to-one chat with one of the biggest names in pedagogy in the UK. Today I got just that opportunity with a 15-minute chat with Professor Sally Brown. The opportunity came about because I signed up for a webinar arranged by the Physiology Society. […]

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Co-creation for learning

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co-creating immunology resources cover slide

Well, this was one of the easiest presentations at a conference that I have ever given…largely because I didn’t have to do very much! I’m grateful to Professor Ian Turner for inviting me to present at a combined HUBS/HUCBMS workshop on co-creation, but the real stars of the show were Ross Davey and Sean Holm, […]

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#DryLabsRealScience 12

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In the last #DryLAbsRealScience meeting before the summer break, we heard from three new presenters, Nia Faulder, Alfred Thumser and Jenny Koenig. Nia followed on from the previous meeting and discussed some of the challenges international students had faced due to the pandemic. Alfred talked about using some of the OpenSTEM resources that Dr Mark […]

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