Things to consider for your Athena SWAN Action Plan….

Posted on 23 October 2014 by Paul Brennan

For I while I thought, probably arrogantly, that getting an Athena SWAN Bronze Award shouldn’t be that difficult. I think it depends on just two things: An honest appraisal of the state of your Department – identifying the key challenges. An Action Plan to will seek to address these challenges in a positive way. However, I have
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Learning javascript and D3.js to produce Electives World 2014

Posted on 10 October 2014 by Paul Brennan

Earlier this year I decided that I would work towards improving my data analysis and visualisation skills. I bought a book entitled Visualise This which proved a very interesting read. There were practical exercise in R, a statistics programming tool. There was also some information about generating interactive graphics for the internet – exactly what I
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Making the case for “chalk and talk”…

Posted on 2 October 2014 by Paul Brennan

Yesterday, I spent a very interesting morning at the University of Bath with Professor Michael Danson. I attended my first Enzyme Kinetics lecture for over twenty years. I went to observe Michael’s lecture because he doesn’t use slides for his lectures. Rather he uses the white board and derives enzyme kinetics equations with the students.
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