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Congratulations to Muhammad Muhammad who passed his PhD viva on the 8th of December under the scrutiny of External Examiner, Professor Declan Gilheany from University College Dublin and our very own Internal Examiner, Dr Mike Carroll. A huge thank you to both for your efforts – much appreciated.

Another student from the group who recently successfully defended his PhD thesis is pictured here too (left), Mohammed Alshajajir – well done too!

Here the focus is on Chemistry undergraduates, getting them on industrial placements, study abroad and creating Hexi modules:

Pizza Model Approach for Raising the Employability of Chemistry Undergraduates – 2024 Horizon Prize for Education winner

A blog on how to create a team to embed employability in to HE – who do you need, when do you need them and how to get started?

CATE 2023: Pizza model: embedding employability and enterprise at university | Advance HE

NTF/CATE – Press Office – Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)

Delighted to be given the opportunity to Chair a session on Active Learning at the forthcoming Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference – Making Connections, Innovating and Sharing Pedagogy (ukstemconference.com to be held on the 26th and 27th of June in my old happy home of the University of Bristol.

This month has seen the arrival of two new MSc Drug Chemistry students, Keyi and Wenxin (from Wuhan and Sichuan respectively), who will be working on multimodality organophosphorus imaging agents that target inflammasomes. Good luck ladies – and welcome to our team!