Category: Seminar

The Society for Natural Sciences Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Group are hosting a series of monthly lunchtime online seminars in 2021 to support dissemination and discussion of best practice in an interdisciplinary science education. These informal webinars take place online 13.00-14.00 on the final Thursday of each month and start with an introductory presentation from a member of the network followed by question and answers/discussion. They are open and free to attend (for both members of the Society and non-members)-so do feel free to extend the invitation to colleagues!

Our next seminar, Natural Sciences Learning and Teaching May e-Seminar: “Youtube videos in teaching biology: the example of cell division” will be delivered by Pat Heslop-Harrison from the University of Leicester and will take on Thursday 27^th May 2021 from 13.00-14.00. Please register via this event to receive joining details on the morning of the event.

SNS PedR/SoTL group (pedr@socnatsci.org)

Dr Paul Kelly, Society For Natural Sciences

Date: May 17 Time:13:30 – 14:15

Event Categories: Biology, Chemistry, HE Application & Student Life, Information Technology, Law, Mathematics, Physics

Ever wondered how to image a fingerprint that is no longer there? How to make yourself see better in the dark, or how to show what that worrying looking stain on the wall might be? Oh, and how to clamp down on any gerbils who may be planning a life of crime?!

Never fear, here we have the answers. In this talk Dr Paul Kelly will show how Natural Sciences have contributed to such cross-disciplinary research and helped shape entirely new approaches to aspects of forensic science. This includes inventing and commercialising a system capable of retrieving fingerprints from fired ammunition casings and bomb fragments.  Using these examples, we will think what the study of Natural Sciences means for student employability and careers in general.

Dr Kelly is a Reader in Inorganic Chemistry who lectures on a number of modules taken by Natural Sciences students at Loughborough University. In this event, he is representing the Society for Natural Sciences, a national learned society that promotes interdisciplinary science education and research.

There are many unsolved scientific problems, such as how to cure cancer or how to stop climate change. Finding the answers will require scientists of all disciplines (biologists, chemists, physicists, psychologists, mathematicians,…) working together.

In this talk, Dr Chris Brignell, Director of Natural Sciences and Associate Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, at University of Nottingham, will examine what each branch of science can contribute.  He explains how advances in medical imaging are dependent on interdisciplinary science, and how we have used them to improve human health and scientific understanding.  Finally, we’ll discuss opportunities to study multiple science subjects at university.

Please click here to view this seminar or here to browse our video gallery.

As part of our on-going seminar series you can explore the possibilities for life across the Universe in this webinar on Astrobiology.

Dr Sarah Gretton, Natural Sciences (Life and Physical Sciences) Programme Director at University of Leicester, discusses how the Drake equation attempts to address the question of detecting intelligent life in the Universe. You will be challenged with key questions, such as “What do we need for life?” and “If life exists how do we detect it?”

Please click here to view this seminar or here to browse our video gallery.