Dr Ella Gale presented a talk on 'Glassware Heroes: A Virtual Reality Game to Teach Glassware Assembly That Reduces Mistakes Made by Laboratory Novices', in which she described the development and testing of an immersive, virtual reality (VR) laboratory simulation to teach correct glassware assembly procedure before entering a wet lab.

The work has co-authors from the School of Chemistry including former undergraduates Adam O'Sullivan and Diana Uchaeva, former PhD student Josh Dunn, and Dr Amy McCarthy-Torrens. 

Dr Karen Parrish presented a workshop on 'Using light to drive reactions: A photoredox catalysis experiment for 3rd year undergraduate students', where she demonstrated an experiment conducted in the teaching labs that employs an anti-Markovnikov addition to an alkene in the presence of a blue light and a photocatalyst.

Elsewhere, Dr Juliet Collins and Dr Francesca Dennis gave a talk entitled 'Undergraduate students as chemistry lecturers - Peer-to-peer teaching and authentic assessment'. They described how taught students on the final year Chemistry (MSci) course were tasked with creating taught content and delivering a lecture and problem session to their peers to assist with revision for a final year general chemistry exam paper.