Graeme Jones

Biography

Dr. Graeme Jones SFHEA, FRSC, CChem

I graduated in Chemistry from the University of Liverpool and then went on to study for a PhD with Professor Ian Fleming FRS at the University of Cambridge. I spent two and a half years as a Western European Fellow of the Royal Society at the University of Lausanne working with Professor Pierre Vogel on stereoelectronic effects and eating lots of cheese and chocolate. I arrived at Keele in 1994 and together with Prof. David Morgan I managed the Chemical Ecology Research Group and had an international reputation for science communication travelling the world making models of DNA and presenting makeitmolecular and popular science shows (try Youtube). Over the years I managed to write a few research paper and pick up a few awards for my public science work see below.

In 2006 children arrived and I reduced my hours to 20% to allow my wife to continue to pursue her career and passed the research group onto the capable hands of Falko Drijfhout. Since then I have slowly built up my hours to a 70% contract which is now teaching focused. In 2014 I was luckily enough to attend a workshop on Team-Based Learning and since then I have been active on the TBL scene putting it into practice in my own teaching and promoting TBL within the UK and Europe. I am the Treasurer of the ETBLC and sit on the international TBLC Finance Board.  The Keele TBL group recently won the 2021 RSC HE Team Teaching Award and a 2022 Advance HE CATE Award.

Awards

• 2022 Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence together with Natalie Capel, Laura Hancock, Chloe Howe, Daniela Plana and Tess Phillips·         2021 Royal Society of Chemistry National Higher Education Team Teaching Award together with Natalie Capel, Laura Hancock, Chloe Howe, Daniela Plana and Tess Phillips
• 2009 Carbon Rapture, Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, London
• 2005 NESTA Dreamtime Award Fellow
• 2005 Royal Society Summer Exhibition Soiree Lecturer
• 2004 Finalist EU Descartes Prize for Science Communication
• 2004 The BA Lord Kelvin Award Lecturer
• 2004 Royal Society Summer Exhibition Lecturer
• 2003 Keele University Individual Award for Learning and Teaching Excellence
• 2002 Guinness World Record Holder for the largest model of DNA in the world
• 2001 Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Teaching Award

Research and scholarship

Educational research

1. Team-Based Learning with a particular focus on using TBL for the teaching of the physical sciences
2. Safety in undergraduate chemistry teaching laboratories
3. Development of new and improved undergraduate chemistry experiments
4. Use of AI in Chemistry Teaching

Chemical research

1. The use of microwaves to promote chemical reactions 

Teaching

• FYO-00189: Foundations of Chemistry
• CHE-10061: Practical and Professional Chemistry Skills
• CHE-10063: Chemical Structure and Reactivity
• CHE-10085: Chemistry Connections
• CHE-20055: Molecular Chemistry and Reactions
• CHE-20083: Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure (module leader)
• CHE-30037/44: Topics in Chemistry/Medicinal Chemistry
• CHE-30050: Chemistry/Medicinal Chemistry Research Project
• CHE-30051: Chemistry/Medicinal Chemistry Dissertation
• CHE-40048: Advanced Research Topics