“Give Me a Doping Programme to Improve my Marathon Time” We’ve all been reading about how AI is going to steal all our jobs, can it steal the job of the athlete support personnel in guiding the use of illicit methods to improve performance? As a recreational runner (‘hobby jogger’?)…
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World Anti-Doping Agency ban Carbon Monoxide use from 2026
In the last few weeks the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) have published their new list of prohibited substances and methods, as it does each year. This year they have added a new method onto the list – the non-diagnostic use of carbon monoxide (CO). Isn’t CO in the atmosphere all…
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Reflections on leading our undergraduate curriculum redevelopment
At 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; taught postgraduate teaching; practise focussed education and apprenticeships. The aim from the University were to simplify course structures…
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Embedding Sustainability in the Science Curriculum
All 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 of our courses in: Biology Biochemistry, Biomedical Science Chemistry. And introducing a new exciting course ‘Biomedicine and Health…
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Is this the end of the lecture and exams?
For 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.
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Finding the positives from online learning in a pandemic
At 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.
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The big shift online
his 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.
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Dealing with lab closure and the student practical experience
One 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 had to shut our labs. At that time we had completed nearly all of our taught undergraduate and…
Using Google Docs and Breakout rooms for a directed task, collaborative work, and presentation.
This 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 for other staff. It can be found at: https://blog.shu.ac.uk/digitallearning/case-studies/ I teach a second-year chemistry module called “Chemistry and…
Reflections on moving final year lab based projects into dry projects overnight
The start of a year of shifting sands The past year has been full of changes and shifting of sands under our feet. During this year I have been recording the odd thing to reflect on so thought I would put them into blog form. It may take one or…