Bristol ChemLabS Outreach Report 2012-13Tim Harrison

“I want to thank you both for the excellent day we spent with you yesterday. For us and the boys it was an inspirational visit. The practicals were interesting and engaging for the boys, keeping them fully occupied in your super labs. We were all highly impressed with thedepartment and (as you might hope) we will definitely be recommending any chemistry applicant to include Bristol on their UCAS form.Thank you both for the interesting talks to round off the afternoon. I appreciate the work the technical staff put in as well, so please pass on our thanks to Steve and his colleagues.”

Dr Keith Halliday, Head of Science and Chemistry, Radley College (Oxon)

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Table of ContentsIntroduction.......................................................................................................................................4

Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................................4

Secondary Schools Outreach.............................................................................................................5

Examples of Impact at Secondary Level.............................................................................................5

Primary Schools Outreach.................................................................................................................7

Wider Community Outreach..............................................................................................................8

Bristol ChemLabS’ PhD Student- Mrs Sarah Glover...........................................................................9

Other Bristol ChemLabS Outreach Activities...................................................................................11

Software Support for Practical Work in Biological Sciences and Physics.....................................11

Outreach, Research Impacts and the REF........................................................................................12

Planned Projects..............................................................................................................................12

Case Studies.....................................................................................................................................13

Domestic..........................................................................................................................................13

EDF Energy...................................................................................................................................13

AZSTT/PSTT Sponsored Science Assemblies................................................................................13

Residential Chemistry Camps......................................................................................................13

Malta...........................................................................................................................................13

British Council (France)....................................................................................................................14

South Africa.....................................................................................................................................14

Major Invited Talks..............................................................................................................................15

Eurovariety Conference, Ireland..................................................................................................15

New Zealand................................................................................................................................15

RSC Science, Education and Industry Board Meeting..................................................................15

Outreach Web Pages: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/outreach..................................................15

Publications.....................................................................................................................................16

Awards 2012-13...............................................................................................................................16

Bristol ChemLabS Outreach Staff.....................................................................................................21

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‘This is an exhilarating success story. What splendid and worthwhile achievements it recounts, ……….I admit, frankly, that this paper re-affirms my belief that educational innovation depends first on the personalities who take the lead, and only second on the methodology they promote. As presently framed, this submission disregards that former factor, except by those who read between the lines.’

‘The paper suffers from academic conventions which preclude the blowing of one’s own trumpet.

More importantly, the conclusions section could usefully, if with difficulty, [to] analyse the balance in the factors leading to success between inspired educational leadership, and exemplary approaches to implementing innovation. There would be many readers who might find encouragement in emphasis of the former factor, while less successful institutional managements might well ponder on the same factor.’

Comments by a Reviewer on an article on Bristol ChemLabS outreach for ‘Higher Education Studies’. Resulting article Dudley E. Shallcross, Tim G. Harrison, Tim M. Obey, Steve J. Croker & Nick C. Norman . 'Outreach within the Bristol ChemLabS CETL (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning)', (2013). Higher Education Studies, CCSE, 3(1).

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Introduction

This report has been produced to inform third parties on the extensive programme of outreach activities delivered in the secondary school academic year 2012-13. It contains information on the three main branches of outreach; primary, secondary and wider community, among other pertinent information.

Acknowledgements

The School of Chemistry as a whole has bought into the importance of the outreach work provided by Bristol ChemLabS; academic staff are willing to give up their time to give talks and lectures, administration staff help coordinate facilities bookings, the portering staff help with the ‘meet and greet’ and the cleaners rearrange duties according to outreach visits.

I wish to acknowledge in particular the great degree of help and professionalism shown by a great many members of the School of Chemistry the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory Technicians, in particular Steve Croker and Hugh James, without whom the high level and quality of outreach engagement would not be possible.

I also wish to highlight the importance of the large numbers of postgraduate chemists involved in the great variety of outreach activities. Their work as chemists and as role models is regularly commented upon by visiting and visited teachers.

Tim Harrison Director of Outreach and School Teacher Fellow (August 2013)

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Secondary Schools Outreach

This comprises a number of workshops, competitions, conferences and residential schools that take place within the School of Chemistry and in conferences and lecture demonstrations that take place in schools across the UK and overseas. ‘Schools’ also include a variety of groups that are home schooled or those that are in colleges.

During 2012-13 there were 142 discrete secondary events, attended by 10 400 students, 610 teachers and representing 258 identifiable schools (many events are attended by several schools organised through a host school-not all school names are made known to Bristol ChemLabS). Several of the schools will have attended more than one event.

Secondary school events take place whilst working with many partners, not including individual schools and colleges:

The Widening Participation Office of the University of Bristol The Bristol and District Branch of the Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry The Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry EDF Energy The Salters‘ Organisation Enfield Education Authority

Examples of Impact at Secondary Level

‘The College [Cheltenham Ladies College] has developed a strong working relationship with the Chemistry Department at the University of Bristol through the outreach work coordinated by Outreach Director, Tim Harrison. The College regularly attends Top of the Bench, The Analyst, Caffeine Extraction and Benzocaine Synthesis, all of which inspire our budding female chemists to take up Chemistry to the next stage of their education. Furthermore, over the past few years CLC, Bristol ChemLabS and the Royal Society of Chemistry have run a highly successful schools conference aimed at sixth form pupils. The event has grown in popularity and serves as a real tool to engage, enthuse and teach pupils about the everyday applications of chemistry in a fun and dramatic fashion. To this end I have seen a rapid up take of the subject at GCSE and A level standard with many pupils being inspired to read the subject at University. The subject has now become the second largest subject within the school and the relationship with Bristol University has played a key role in developing this success within the school.’ 

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  ‘This year I have 61% of the cohort taking chemistry at AS / IB level - 91 girls /150 pupils.  At SFC2 I have 71 pupils taking the subject. We would expect to lose a few from AS to A2 with pupils dropping the subject.  This has resulted in the school having to build a new lab and recruit a new teacher and up part time staff hours.’

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‘I personally see Bristol University as a UK leader in terms of Chemistry Outreach, through the visionary work of Tim Harrison, and many of my pupils now apply to Bristol Chemistry as a matter of routine. I have been privileged to develop this link with Bristol into stronger bond which has only served to further benefit the next generation of female chemists at the college.’ ‘The best motivator in chemistry is interaction with the research chemist, and getting to play with research grade equipment, Tim Harrison champions this activity within the Bristol region and generates interest within all young people to pursue chemistry. Further support and funding in this area will only enable more chemists to engage the grass roots of the subject which will inspire more pupils to take the subject up to and beyond A level, and thus serve the needs of the subject for generations to come.‘  Dr D P Gamblin, Head of Chemistry, The Cheltenham Ladies' College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

‘The School of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin has been running joint International Summer Schools in Chemistry together with the Bristol ChemLabS group since 2005. These have gone from strength to strength, with the Irish group being oversubscribed for the past two years. Feedback has been extremely positive, both from the students and critically, from their parents. Our objective has been to not just promote the children’s interest in Chemistry, but in the wider field of science in general. The scientific programme is set at quite a challenging level, especially for those who have had little previous experience (some have had none at all!). But everyone outperforms, and at the end of the week the confidence index is extraordinarily high. We are now seeing concrete evidence of the effectiveness of this approach, in that for a number of years several newly-registered Freshman students at TCD have previously participated in our Summer School.

Perhaps some of the feedback comments that we have received give a better flavour of the impact on the student participants:

•    Meeting new people, being treated like university students, freedom; •    Social side of it.  Experiments were fun; •    Playing with the dangerous chemicals.  Oh, and the socialising; •    Taking part in practicals and working with new people; •    All the course was enjoyable but if I had to choose a part it would be the vanillin extract experiment in Bristol; •    There was a great balance of academic and social time on the course.   I really enjoyed the entire week and it was much better than I expected; •     Interesting chemistry practicals, meeting new people in Bristol. Learning more about chemistry and gaining a deeper understanding of the subject.  The lectures were really interesting also.

We believe also that the breadth of the course has a great impact on the participants, putting the way that Chemistry supports every facet of modern life into perspective. This message is particularly reinforced through a riveting lecture on climate change that is delivered at Bristol by Tim Harrison (with input from Dudley Shallcross and others), and the short talks by various PhD students give the participants an insight into how far one can go, and in what unexpected directions.

The opportunity for Bristol and Dublin academic staff, technical staff and postgraduates to exchange ideas about best practice is also a key feature. Indeed, the entire exercise, which accommodates a group of young people who have great curiosity and unbounded enthusiasm, reveals to many what the rewards of teaching can be……potentially leading to recruitment of truly committed people to the teaching profession.”

Professor David H. Grayson MA PhD CChem FRSC, School of Chemistry, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Primary Schools OutreachDr Alison Rivett

The vast majority of outreach events take place in primary schools, a few in host secondary schools

and none were held in the School of Chemistry during 2012/13. Having primary pupils in the

Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories is rare as bench tops are too tall for these smaller children).

In 2012-13 Bristol ChemLabS organised 80 separate events for primary pupils. We visited 21 different

Local Authority areas of England, as well as Northern Ireland and Wales.  Three-quarters of the

events took place in the South West but some were in the north east, Midlands, London among other

areas.

We delivered 88 Demonstration Assemblies & Lectures which were seen by 16,600 children aged

between 4 & 11. We also ran 55 practical workshops involving 1,800 pupils aged 5-11. 

Approximately 900 teachers and teaching assistants saw the assemblies and workshops.

The majority of schools visited were state primaries.

Some of these visits were sponsored by EDF Energy, the local Branch of The royal society of

Chemistry, The RSC, the Western Division of Analytical Division of the RSC and the AstraZeneca

Science Teaching Trust AZSTT-which has recently been rebranded as the Primary Science Teaching

Trust, PSTT).

Information

Primary Science Assemblies: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/outreach/primary/Passemblies.html

Primary Science Workshops: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/outreach/primary/P-ScienceVisits.html

Loan Boxes Project

This is effectively a loanable library of equipment and chemicals. This project was initially set up through a grant from the AstraZenenca Science Teaching Trust (AZSTT) and was developed in conjunction with Science coordinators from 8 local schools.

Each Box contains a variety of experiments on a different topic to support hands-on learning in primary science.

The activities are designed to enthuse pupils about science and allow them to experience the excitement and stimulation of handling apparatus and chemicals whilst problem solving.

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The boxes contain scientific equipment and chemicals not often available in primary schools. Each contains a manual with comprehensive instructions and tips for using the kit in class.

They enable teachers to carry out practical work which might otherwise be impossible, due to lack of resources or confidence in setting up equipment.

The experiments and investigations are mostly suitable for Key Stage 2 pupils, with some appropriate for younger year groups. They link to the curriculum and are a mixture of small group and whole class activities.

Wider Community Outreach

‘Wider Community’ is a catch-all term meaning any other engagement that is not directed at primary or secondary school students.

46 events were delivered during 2012-13. These events are varied and include teacher training, lecture demonstrations, tours and science festivals. Audiences for this aspect of outreach work include in-service teachers, trainee teachers, school technical staff, professional bodies and their families and academics.

Teachers

In-service and in-training teachers where Bristol ChemLabS delivers teacher training, with co-operation of other organisations such as the former Science Learning Centres, charities and other Universities and without.

Example 1

Working with 36 Primary Science at Manchester Metropolitan University in the delivery of hands on chemistry practical work for final year BA students who wish to become primary Science Coordinators.

Example 2

A cryomaterials workshop was delivered for 6 technicians and performed 'A Pollutant's Tale' for 45 school technicians at the countywide training day mainly for Worcestershire’s schools.

Example 3

Tim Harrison gave an evening extended performance of the lecture demonstration ‘A Pollutant’s Tale’ to 90 undergraduate, honours chemists and other members of the Chemistry Society at the Chemistry Department, Rhodes University, South Africa. Many of the honours students present were on the Service Learning course and would be delivering this talk, and other elements of the Bristol ChemLabS outreach programme, during the year.

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Bristol ChemLabS’ PhD Student- Mrs Sarah Glover

Sarah provides, in addition to the research described below a back-up to the School Teacher Fellow in case of illness or double-bookings. Being a qualified teacher in her own right Sarah may lead Teaching Laboratory based workshops, she is also a very skilled at delivering lecture demonstrations and science assemblies and in leading primary science workshops. Sarah typically spends on average parts of two days a week in delivering outreach.

“I have completed 11 interviews with secondary school teachers who have long-standing

relationships with Bristol ChemLabS. Eight of these interviews were face-to-face and the other 3

were over the telephone. The exploratory study interviews have yielded an emergence of some

common themes. They suggest that long-term associations with teachers seem to have developed

due to a range of characteristics which include:

Good relationship with School Teacher Fellow

Flexibility and reliability of the programme

Programme quality/no nasty surprises

Reaction of the students and the ‘buzz’ created

Teachers feel supported and on equal footing with staff/postgraduates involved

Teachers feel ‘kept in the loop’ – regular newsletter and website

Teachers really enjoy the opportunity to be back in the research environment and sharpen

up their knowledge

Many teachers credit ChemLabS Outreach for providing them with (access to and ideas for)

more exciting ways to deliver certain topics, good analogies and teaching ideas and

inspiration

They feel that their participation in outreach has given them an ‘in’ to the university and

access to knowledge and resources they would not have otherwise

Although most of the teachers interviewed had tried other university/private programmes,

they keep coming back to ChemLabS

One of the teachers has a large amount of data on her school’s engagement with ChemLabS and a

case study using this data is being conducted. We hope to publish this in CERC or a similar journal.

40 primary teachers have filled in questionnaires after watching ‘Gases in the Air.’ These

questionnaires have provided valuable insight into the qualifications and science teaching self-

concept of the primary teachers who are being reached by ‘Gases in the Air.’ A second questionnaire

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was developed, with largely the same first section and a new last section asking questions about

teachers’ expectations of ‘Gases in the Air’ and the likelihood of them using more practical work in

class. This has been administered to 46 teachers. A small proportion of these teachers have

indicated their willingness to be contacted for further interviews which could provide some

interesting possibilities for long-term study. Thus we have a large sample of 86 teachers from which

a good overview of primary school teachers that we engage with can be determined.

As a case study at primary level, we have begun a year-long process of engagement with local

primary school which has had no contact from ChemLabS before. The deputy head teacher and

curriculum coordinator was interviewed individually and the rest of the teachers were interviewed in

focus-group style before the outreach team visited the school. The demos and workshops were

provided to the school and we have received feedback from both teachers and pupils. The deputy

head teacher was interviewed a week after the demos and the school has asked for support in

improving their science teaching. This will also form part of the PhD research work.

The project to combine Bristol ChemLabS’ secondary school usage data from 2005 – 2012 was

completed and descriptive statistics were obtained. There is the potential for further statistical

analysis.

A joint project with AZSTT/PSTT and Sheffield-Hallam University has yielded some interesting results

in terms of teachers’ response to, and the role of, demonstration lectures such as ‘Gases in the Air’

in inspiring awe and wonder and kick-starting the kind of questioning on the part of the students,

and lesson planning on the part of teachers and improving primary science education.

Plans for the coming year involve continuing the longer term projects described earlier and moving

on to the second stage of the exploratory interview studies. Follow up interviews with the secondary

teachers to flesh out some of the characteristics identified as contributing to long term relationship

building will be conducted and a questionnaire developed to quantify the contribution of each

characteristic. This will be administered to all consenting secondary teachers attending activities at

Bristol ChemLabS.

The case study of whole-school impact and teacher motivation, and a paper out of this, with the

teacher involved will be completed.

The altered primary questionnaire results give us information about teachers’ support needs and

there is the possibility of the development of a ‘pick and mix’ set of resources which teachers can be

given to follow up on concepts covered in the ‘Gases in the Air’ demonstration. “

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Other Bristol ChemLabS Outreach Activities

Software Support for Practical Work in Biological Sciences and Physics

In 2010 Professor Dudley Shallcross and Bristol ChemLabS were awarded a three year grant from the Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship Scheme to develop Dynamic Laboratory Techniques Manuals (DLTM) for Physics and for Biological Sciences. This built on the success of the Bristol ChemLabS Dynamic Laboratory Manual (DLM) and A-Level LabSkills. The DLTMs were constructed using the DLM format developed by Bristol ChemLabS and is freely available to all UK institutes to support practical teaching in these subjects.

In addition a commercial IT resource ‘A Level Biology LabSkills’ has been created and is still awaiting feedback from Medical Sciences so it can be launched.

This project paid 20% of Tim Harrison’s salary during this period.

The Dynamic Laboratory Techniques Manuals Project Webpage is: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/DLTM.html

Information on individual projects:

Biological Sciences Dynamic Laboratory Techniques Manual (DLTM)http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/Biological_Sciences_DLTM.html

Physics Dynamic Laboratory Techniques Manual (DLTM)http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/Physics_DLTM.html

The Resources

Biology: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/ DLTM / Biology /

Username : DLTM2013 Password : PhysBiol

Physics: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/ DLTM / Physics /

Username : DLTM2013 Password : PhysBiol

The commercial product Level Chemistry LabSkills should go to market in 2013-14.

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Outreach, Research Impacts and the REF

Bristol ChemLabS outreach has contributed to the REF submission for Impact case studies (to be submitted November 2013) particularly in the areas of climate change and geochemistry. An intra-university assessment of outreach containing submissions was viewed as among the best examples within the university. Some of the supporting evidence for impact will be included in this document to give a flavour of the effect that Bristol ChemLabS work is having in many areas around the world.

“The Bristol ChemLabS’ outreach programme is a model of good practice which has helped to inspire others to develop similar programmes at other institutions across the country. Innovative approaches such as the delivery of short research-focussed lectures by current postgraduates have had a significant impact on teachers and students alike, promoting awareness of contemporary science and giving youngsters the opportunity to interact with good role models. The high profile lecture-demonstration ‘A pollutant’s tale’ captures key elements of the school curriculum along with issues of concern to society, and presents them in a uniquely informative and entertaining context. The fact that this talk has been delivered over 1000 times speaks volumes about the commitment of the ChemLabS team to sharing their passion for chemistry and science with young people. Whilst engagement with an outreach activity has a very obvious impact on students, teachers also benefit immensely, gaining ideas and anecdotes which will enhance their teaching for many years to come.” Dr David ReadHead of Education Group and Director of Outreach (Chemistry), Programme Leader, Science Foundation Year, University of Southampton.

Planned Projects

All planned Outreach events are available on the outreach webpages:

Primary: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/outreach/primary/Pactivities.html

Secondary: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/outreach/chemnet/Chemnet_activities.html

Wider Community: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/outreach/wider/Wactivities.html

In addition Bristol ChemLabS Outreach is working with a north London Primary school on a web-based resource to improve the teaching of material science at Key Stage 2 across the UK ‘Web Materials for Material Science’.

See:

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Case Studies

There are too many potential case studies to report here so they have been limited to three domestic and some international items.

Domestic

EDF EnergyBristol ChemLabS has been working with EDF Energy and schools based in Somerset (close to the Hinckley C site) to support science teaching. EDF are keen to have a scientifically iterate workforce in place for the eventual opening of the reactor. A regular series of events for both primary schools (science days within the schools themselves) and secondary students are also part of this engagement series. For secondary schools two Caffeine Extraction Workshops at Bristol ChemLabS. Occasional lecture demonstrations are also part of the cooperation. In all cases the majority of the administration is carried out by Bristol ChemLabS.

AZSTT/PSTT Sponsored Science AssembliesBristol ChemLabS is sponsored by the (now) Primary Science Teaching trust to deliver a series of ‘Gases in the Air’ demonstration assemblies in the UK. These multi event outings take place over several days per year. In addition Bristol ChemLabS representatives are present at both major PZSTT meetings each year and take part, whenever requested, in PSTT projects.

Residential Chemistry CampsSeveral of these are run by ChemLabS each year lasting 2 to 5 days. These are for individual schools or individual students. Bristol ChemLabS also takes part in science camps organised through the University of Bristol Widening Participation Office.

"I just wanted to say a big thank you for the chem camp. One of my students came in a told me it was amazing and absolutely loved it and was bursting with excitement! " Head of Chemistry

For more information see: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/outreach/chemnet/Chemnet_Bristol_ChemLabS_Two_Day_Camp.html

International

MaltaBristol ChemLabS has a long established relationship with both Church and State schools in Malta. Visits have been made to the island’ schools and to ChemLabS by Maltese school students. Additionally for the last 2 years Bristol ChemLabS has been invited to present lecture demonstrations at the Maltese National Science Week and to judge the National Science competition.

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Feedback: A ‘Mention in Dispatches’

Addressing Maltese President George Abela at a garden party on June 21 to celebrate the Queen’s birthday, British High Commissioner Rob Luke paid tribute to the “unsung individuals” who contribute to the strength of the relationship between the UK and Malta. The article in the Times of Malta (07/07/13) reported that ‘These ……. British academics presenting at this year’s NSTF science expo, bringing chemistry to life for hundreds of Maltese schoolchildren.’ The High Commissioner said these were just a few of “thousands of interconnections” contributing to a “wider interlinking of our two peoples”.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130707/social/British-High-Commissioner-lauds-unsung-dimension-to-UK-Malta-ties.476970

British Council (France)In recent years Bristol ChemLabS has worked on the British Council’s (France) Science in Schools project. This project aims to deliver English language tuition through the vehicle of science. Each year a different French HEI is invited to be involved. Bristol ChemLabS provides two French postgraduates and an English speaking postgraduate to deliver circuses of practical work and a lecture demonstration. All expenses are met by the British Council.

During 2013-14 two HEIs were initially approached and both eventually withdrew. The year’s visit has been put back to December 2013.

South AfricaBristol ChemLabS has a long association with universities in South Africa. In April 2013 Tim Harrison visited Rhodes University and whilst there delivered a training session on demonstration lecturing honours year and postgraduate chemistry students. The Honours year students are expected to deliver lecture demonstrations as part of a service learning modules. A second lecture demonstration was also given at the Saturday Khanya Maths and Science Club in Grahamstown.

A further seminar on chemistry outreach and the sharing of resources, in preparation for their own increased outreach presence was held at Chemistry Department at the University of Stellenbosch.

“Since 2008, when a collaboration between Rhodes University and Bristol ChemLabS was initiated, “A Pollutant’s Tale” has been use on numerous occasions to inform the public on the issues surrounding Climate Change. APT is regularly presented to schools in and around Grahamstown, but is also taken further afield to rural schools in small poverty-stricken villages of the Eastern Cape Province as well as to schools in the Western Cape Province [Sunassee et al, Acta Didactica Napocensia ,5, (4), 2012]. Since 2008, in the Eastern Cape alone, close to 9000 people have attended presentations of APT. These also include presentations to teachers, teachers-in-training, and academic members of staff at Rhodes University.

APT now also form a part of the Chemistry Honours programme of service-learning, where the students present APT at schools and have to write reflections and get academic credit for it.”

Joyce Sewry, Chemistry Lecturer, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

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Major Invited Talks

Eurovariety Conference, Ireland

In July Tim Harrison presented 2 papers at Eurovariety Conference, University of Limerick on the Bristol ChemLabS primary outreach ‘science days’ at the Eurovariety in Chemistry Education Conference. The talk was attended by 20 academics from 4 continents. A second talk/workshop on ‘Bristol ChemLabS secondary outreach was also given.

The conference proceedings will be made available on the publications page when published.

New Zealand

Also in July 2013 Tim Harrison was invited as keynote speaker to give 2 workshops and the lecture demonstration ‘A Pollutant’s Tale’ at ChemEd 2013 (NZ Chemistry Teachers Conference 2013, Otago University, Dunedin) to an audience of more than 80 chemistry teachers from New Zealand NZ Chemistry Teachers Conference 2013, Otago University, Dunedin and Singapore. Tim also discussed outreach with the Dean of Outreach at Otago University.

“Thank you once again Tim for coming to speak and reminding me how much fun chemistry can be!” Chemistry teacher, Hagley Community College, Christchurch, NZ

RSC Science, Education and Industry Board Meeting

Tim Harrison was invited to give feedback as an outreach expert to the main board meeting when considering the next 5 year, multimillion pound outreach plans as part of the RSC’s ‘Talent Pipeline’. Tim Harrison has been seconded to the RSC’s working party to help maximise the impact of these funds.

Outreach Web Pages: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/outreach

All School of Chemistry outreach events organised through Bristol ChemLabS since its creation is listed on the Outreach Web pages. The website also contains all event reports, documents and other information that could be required by teachers.

This value mine of information for outreach research is updated several times a week thanks to Steve Croker.

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Publications

All publications, those academic and those aimed at students and teachers, produced by Bristol ChemLabS Outreach are listed on line and are archived by calendar year rather than academic year. These can be found at: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/Publications.html

Education in Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, ‘Radical changes in our atmosphere’, September

2013 22-25 Dudley Shallcross and Tim Harrison Higher Education Studies, CCSE , 3 (5), (2013). ‘Lessons in effective Practical Chemistry at tertiary

level: Case studies from a Chemistry Outreach Program’. D. E. Shallcross, T. G. Harrison, A.J. Shaw, K.L. Shallcross, S. J. Croker and N. C. Norman

Science for All (a Brazilian blogsite), ‘Coming Up Smelling of Roses’ by Dr Natalie Fey, Dr Jenny Slaughter and Tim Harrison,

Science for All (a Brazilian blogsite), ‘Butan-1-ol: An Advanced Biofuel?’ by Tim Harrison and Duncan Wass, translated into Portuguese by Natanael F. França Rocha, Florianópolis, Brasil and into Spanish by Natanael F. França Rocha and Carlos Bravo Díaz.

Higher Education Studies, CCSE , 3(1), (2013).'Outreach within the Bristol ChemLabS CETL (Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning)', Dudley E. Shallcross, Tim G. Harrison, Tim M. Obey, Steve J. Croker & Nick C. Norman.

Acta Didactica Naponcensia , Volume 5, Number 4, 2012. 'UK School Students’ Attitudes Towards

Science And Potential Science-Based Careers', Emelia L White, Timothy G Harrison. Acta Didactica Naponcensia , Volume 5, Number 4, 2012. 'Creating Climate Change Awareness in

South African Schools Through Practical Chemistry Demonstrations', Suthananda N Sunassee, Ryan M Young, Joyce D Sewry, Timothy G Harrison, Dudley E Shallcross.

Science in School , Issue 25, November 2012. 'Magnetic science: developing a new surfactant' by Julian

Eastoe, Paul Brown, Isabelle Grillo and Tim Harrison. Science Communication: A Practical Guide for Scientists , Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 'Gain from Developing a Pollutants Tale', p71-72 and Case study 9.1, 'A Pollutants Tale', p295-298. Tim

Harrison and Dudley Shallcross, Editors Laura Bowater, Kay Yeoman, Stephen Asworth. Breakthroughs in green chemistry: Magnetic detergents and supercritical CO2, Chemistry Review, Tim

Harrison and Julian Eastoe, 22(2), 10-14 (2012). 'Chemistry in its element series - silicones,' RSC, podcast and script by Tim Harrison. The podcast is

available here and the script available here. 'Climate Change: Outreaching to School Students and Teachers', Dudley E. Shallcross, Timothy G.

Harrison, Alison C. Rivett and Jauyah Tuah (2029-2075) in 'Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation' Chen, W.-Y.; Seiner, J.; Suzuki, T.; Lackner, M. (Eds.), SpringerReference, (2012).

Awards 2012-13

Bristol ChemLabS Outreach was highly commended in the ‘Group’ category of the University of Bristol Engagement Awards 2013.

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The awarding panel described the ChemLabS outreach work as ' a shining example of sustainable engagement with schools and teachers with huge range, depth and impact, which reached local, national and international students, teachers and others in science education. The number of people you have reached is incredible and highly commendable.'

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40 Students, 2 schools, Caffeine Workshop

In: £ 1,080.00 Out:-£ 388.28

Invoice to school 40 x (£27/student): £ 1,080.00

Postgrad fees (3 PGs, 2.75hrs, £11.63/hr)

-£ 95.95

NB. using 2013-14 costs Coffee Break Costs-£ 15.00

PG speaker's fees (2hrs, £11.63/hr)-£ 23.26

Minibus parking (1 minibus, 1 day)-£ 5.00

Admin time (2.5hrs, £11.63/hr)

-£ 29.08

Lab overheads-£ 120.00

Consumables for practicals & speaker-£ 100.00

Staff time (other than admin & PG) £ 691.72

73 Students, 1 school, Polymer Workshop (based on Sherbourne Girls on 1st May 2013)

In: £ 1,460.00 Out:-£ 504.45

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Invoice to school (£20/student): £ 1,460.00 Postgrad fees (4 PGs, 2.75hrs, £11.63/hr)

-£ 127.93

NB. using 2012-13 costs. Belinda's fees-£ 15.00

2013-14 cost is £21/student. PG speaker's fees (2hrs, £11.63/hr)-£ 23.26

Minibus parking (1 minibus, 1 day)-£ 5.00

Admin time (2hrs, £11.63/hr)-£ 23.26

Lab overheads-£ 210.00

Consumables for practicals & speaker-£ 100.00

Staff time (other than admin & PG) £ 955.55

Cornwall & Wales Experience Chemistry Camp - 9-10th July 2013

In: £ 4,749.50 Out:-£ 3,363.24

Invoice to WP £ 4,749.50 Accommodation (Halls of Residence) - 2 nights B&B *-£ 1,400.00

Packed lunches-£ 248.90

Course Dinner-£ 333.67

Postgrad fees-£ 298.42

(2 PGs for 9.5hrs & 1 PG for 1.5hrs at £11.63, 2 O/N stays at £30)

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Coffee breaks-£ 60.00

PG speaker's fees (2hrs, £11.63/hr)-£ 23.26

Mileage (luggage from SoC to HoR & back)

-£ 0.72

Admin time (30-something hours, £11.63/hr)-£ 400.00

Expenses (Tim dinner on 1st night, iTunes Store)-£ 36.85

Printed booklet of practicals-£ 81.43

Other bits for goodie bags **-£ 140.00

Lab overheads-£ 240.00

Consumables for practicals & speaker-£ 100.00

Staff time (other than admin & PG) £ 1,386.26

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Bristol ChemLabS Outreach Staff

Tim Harrison

Bristol ChemLabS Director of Outreach, School Teacher Fellow and Science Communicator in Residence

0.75 FTE

Biog: http://www.bris.ac.uk/chemistry/people/tim-g-harrison/overview.html

Dr Vicky Swinerd

Outreach Administrator

0.4 FTE

Dr Alison Rivett

Primary Science Consultant

0.2 FTE

Biog: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/bios/Alison_Rivett.html

Mrs Pat Cutts

Outreach Technician

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0.2 (variable) FTE

Mrs Sarah Glover

Outreach Postgraduate Student

Biog: http://www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk/bios/Sarah_Glover.html

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