Exploration: Public Engagement Activities for Chemistry Students: Creativity in Tertiary Learning

Tim G Harrison; Dudley E Shallcross

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95780-7_16

Exploration: Public Engagement Activities for Chemistry Students: Creativity in Tertiary Learning

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Postgraduate scientists (here Chemists) can become isolated during their studies and will inevitably have times when their research seems to not be progressing. The Bristol ChemLabS public engagement programme provides many opportunities to ‘play’ and in so doing has had myriad benefits for these students. These include making friends with different postgraduate Chemists (particularly important when research groups are small), swapping ideas about research with groups that they would not normally meet, honing their science communication skills in both oral and written formats, re-energising their passion for science, getting away from the research laboratory and simply having fun.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Power of Play in Higher Education
Subtitle of host publication	Creativity in Tertiary Learning
Editors	Alison James, Chrissi Nerantzi
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan/British Film Institute
Pages	145
Number of pages	158
ISBN (Print)	ISBN 978-3-319-95779-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95780-7_16
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2019

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Postgraduate students
Communication and thinking skills
Outreach

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Exploration: Public Engagement Activities for Chemistry Students: Creativity in Tertiary Learning. / Harrison, Tim G; Shallcross, Dudley E.
The Power of Play in Higher Education: Creativity in Tertiary Learning. ed. / Alison James; Chrissi Nerantzi. Palgrave Macmillan/British Film Institute, 2019. p. 145.

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