I wrote a few weeks ago about phrasing research questions and did so in a fairly generic way. I didn’t touch on how you find a good research question, a problem worth working on.
Research can be incremental, working carefully through possibilities and adding to the sum of knowledge about a specific sub-field. For example, synthesizing all molecules with [...]
Next week I’m off to present an Oral Byte at the Variety in Chemistry Education conference in Loughborough. Due to a minor scheduling class I’m there on the Thursday then off to London for Science Online London 2010 hideously early on the Friday morning. (I had to rebook my tickets after they published the programme for SOLO10 because the website said a noon start, the programme says a 10 am start – bah humbug advanced non-refundable rail tickets).
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Drug delivery is an area of research on the border of pharmaceutical science and medicinal chemistry. My experience of drug delivery is mainly concerned with using polymers to devise new ways of getting approved drugs into the human body. For example, a drug used in chemotherapy may well have extensive side effects when administered to a patient by intra venous infusion, yet [...]
I was asked a few weeks ago to give some advice on how to write a research proposal. I’m neither qualified nor able to give a definitive guide to writing a research proposal. I can, however, describe the process that I go through, and make a few suggestions.
The first thing you need is a research question. [...]
I’ve started a new page on this site: ‘Chemistry Online‘ (see bar above header image). I’d like to compile a list that demonstrates the diversity of online chemistry resources. I’ve started off with blogs, a couple of open science initiatives, the Periodic Table of Videos, and the 3 major publishing outlets for chemistry (Nature Chem, ACS [...]
September is shaping up to be a busy month.
It all starts on the 2nd of September when I’m off to the Variety in Chemistry Education conference over at Loughborough University. I’m presenting an oral byte called ‘From lo-tech to high-tech: Teaching spectroscopy with the writing on the wall’ which is restricted to 5 minutes in length and a maximum [...]
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