Anything to do with my research or teaching
As an advocate of new teaching and learning innovations, I still find myself falling back on the traditional chalk and talk for my own lecturing as well as having to defend the use of such an archaic practice to the powers that be within my institution. Indeed, after a couple of years running Bifurcations, Catastrophes and Symmetry I felt myself…
As the memory of Covid lockdown starts to fade, I’ve rediscovered a draft I’d started on moving lectures online so thought I should revisit it and get it finished before I’ve completely forgotten. Who knows, perhaps I’ll need to refer to this post in the future if we, heaven forbid, get another one! I’ll concentrate the example on one of…
I’m currently attending the 145th European Study Group with Industry, this year’s UK version being held at Cambridge University (if anyone is interested I’m in the group looking at monitoring the flow of chemicals from crop treatment in groundwater). I’m being put up in some lovely accommodation at Murray Edwards College, and every morning have the delight of the following…
Autumn 2016: a new academic year, a new term, time for a new module! Well, not entirely new since half of it was largely based on a module I taught the previous couple of years (but with much of the detail removed to concentrate more on the ideas and applications), but still this was a module that I have been…
