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Only a few are caught as masking drugs hide the real doping, Alan Moore wrote thishttps://backpagefootball.com/sure-theyre-all-at-it-are-you-entertained-part-2/127087/Dr Tom Bassindale on Reflections on leading our undergraduate curriculum redevelopment
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How do we know if testosterone is ‘non-endogenous’?
Posted on September 12, 2023 | 1 CommentYesterday we discovered that Paul Pogba, the Juventus midfielder was provisionally suspended after drugs test found “non-endogenous testosterone metabolites” in a urine sample. The sample was collected on 20th August after Pogba […] -
Reflections on leading our undergraduate curriculum redevelopment
Posted on August 7, 2023 | 2 CommentsAt the start of academic year 2022-23 the university embarked on an ambitious programme of curriculum redevelopment. This encompassed all of the universities taught provision, categorised in various ways: ‘standard’ undergraduate teaching; […] -
Embedding Sustainability in the Science Curriculum
Posted on June 28, 2023 | No CommentsAll of the undergraduate courses in the Department of Biosciences and Chemistry at Sheffield Hallam have just successfully gone through a full revalidation. From 2024 our department will be offering refreshed versions […] -
Should cannabis be banned as a performance enhancing drug?
Posted on July 2, 2021 | No CommentsToday it was announced that the American athlete Sha’Carri Richardson had tested positive for carboxy – THC (the main metabolite of THC, the active ingredient in cannabis), during the Olympic trials in […] -
Is this the end of the lecture and exams?
Posted on April 13, 2021 | 3 CommentsFor Universities, and in particular science education, some of the main issues we faced have been how to deal with closed laboratories (see this blog piece), exams and lectures. I'll have a look at exams and lectures here. -
What is your idea that got away?
Posted on March 12, 2021 | No CommentsThe One That Got Away This is another of my ‘BitRot’ inspired doodles from the summer, transferred from a google note into this blog piece. I did actually voice type it on […] -
Finding the positives from online learning in a pandemic
Posted on February 28, 2021 | No CommentsAt the moment I feel like Rumpelstiltskin trying to find golden threads of what we have delivered over the past year. Some say that this year will have changed University education forever, I must agree, I htink we can take some really positive things from it. We also need to see what aspects of the face to face and campus experience we have really missed and look at getting those back as soon as possible. -
The big shift online
Posted on February 14, 2021 | No Commentshis blog has some thoughts on notes from designing the shift from fully campus based learning to a blended approach for the start of the academic year in September 2020. Instead of being simply a backwards review I have posted as it is still relevant and contains challenges we face to move into the next academic year - either with or without covid-19 in attendance. -
Dealing with lab closure and the student practical experience
Posted on February 9, 2021 | No CommentsOne of the hardest parts of dealing with the pandemic has been managing the closure of practical labs for our students. With the overnight closure of the university in March 2020 we […] -
Using Google Docs and Breakout rooms for a directed task, collaborative work, and presentation.
Posted on February 4, 2021 | No CommentsThis was originally a jotting on a google document, which I then shared with a few colleagues, which then was refined by our digital learning people at SHU as part of resources […]