A photo of Dr Matthew Hopkinson and Dr Cristina Navarro Reguero

CHEMmunicate: an ice breaking chemistry game for enhancing communication skills and building a learning community

Dr Cristina Navarro Reguero explains how she and colleague Dr Matthew Hopkinson designed the CHEMmunicate game, a fun, interactive activity for teams of students to draw chemical structures by asking yes/no questions, with the aim of building students’ communications skills alongside fundamental knowledge of organic chemistry content. The game has been showcased at national and international conferences as well as in a paper published in the Journal of Chemical Education.

Teaching psychological research methods through a pragmatic and programmatic approach

Dr Patrick Rosenkranz, Senior Lecturer School of Psychology Medical Sciences What did you do? We took an action research approach to re-design, implement and evaluate a module guiding students through a programmatic and pragmatic research cycle. These revisions allowed for a move away from tutor-led, direct instruction and built in more opportunities for collaborative and Read more about Teaching psychological research methods through a pragmatic and programmatic approach[…]