Welcome to latest Chemistry Education project students

BSc and MSci project students join the Centre and introduce their research ideas.

This term, Autumn 2025, three undergraduate students start their final year projects with supervisors from the Centre for Chemistry Education.

Read about them and their projects below!

The Centre hosts both BSc and MSci students for their final year projects. A second wave of students join us in January.

I am studying the impact of Hands-On Pre Lab workshop on Y1 students' confidence and self-efficacy. Many Year 1 students feel nervous and lack confidence for their first-year labs. My research studies if students’ self-efficacy will increase after being able to physically familiarize themselves with the apparatus and practice setting up equipment before the lab session. The study will also explore how this workshop can help reduce cognitive load in the lab and increase students’ preparedness before entering the lab for their first synthesis experiment. To collect data, I will by conducting student surveys, student focus groups and interviews with GTAs.

Supervisor: Dr Luke Delmas

Hello, I am Imogen and I am excited to be undertaking an chemistry educational master’s project under Dr.s Laura Patel and Charlotte Sutherell. The project will look at what affords and what bars students access to resources embedded in social structures in the unique educational environment of the lab. We will investigate material contributors, like space, time and language, and immaterial ones: classroom discourse and culture.

Supervisors: Dr Laura Patel and Dr Charlotte Sutherell

I’m an undergraduate chemistry student focusing on chemical education and polymer analysis. My current project involves developing a 15-minute reusable teaching resource centred on gel permeation chromatography (GPC). Through pre- and post-surveys, along with a short knowledge test, I will measure improvements in students’ understanding of GPC and molecular-weight distributions, as well as shifts in their perceptions of the gap between classroom chemistry and its applications in industry and related careers.

Supervisor: Dr Rebecca Jones

Read about the people of the Centre for Chemistry Education here.