Michael Seery

@mkseery.bsky.social

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Deputy Director of Centre for Academic Language and Development, University of Bristol. National Teaching Fellow. Visiting Professor at OU. Interested in all things higher education and history 🏳️‍🌈 🇮🇪

Ireland, 1485-1798: colonial laboratory? Fri, Sep 26 • 2:00 PM
Screen grab showing subtitles "This lets some of the salt and minerals evaporate so they don't build up in the soil."
Plaque for Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society WILLIAM HENRY CLAYFIELD (1772-1837) CHEMIST, BOTANIST, GEOLOGIST, BALLOONIST LIVED HERE 1814-1837
At registration desk waiting for people to arrive
Groups of presenters and discussants posing for photo
White horse shape carved out chalk soil on steep hill side
Peter Boyle launching book with a slide showing Brian McMurry in the background
Extract reads: “facing his students on a Monday morning in January, wearing the same dark suit that he purchased in 1989 at Rothmans when he was first starting to teach and realized he needed formal professional attire.”
Dear Michael Although retirement is still some way off,
Trinity College Dublin: 300 YEARS OF CHEMISTRY Edited by Peter Boyle, contributors John Boland, Peter Boyle David Grayson, John Kelly and Brian McMurry This new book will be launched by Professor Peter Morris of the Science Museum, London, on Monday 30 June 2025 at 5.00 pm in the Tercententary Theatre, TBSI building. The launch will be preceded by a lecture at 4 pm by Professor Morris, on "Form and Function: The History of the Chemistry Laboratory, 1700-2005". All interested are welcome to attend.
I'm 46, earn £25k and have £6k in my pension. Can I quit my job and retire for good?
Clue prompt: Hounds in races. As in labs? (7)
Clear Symposium programme
There is what Francis said and what Francis is thought to have said. There is what Francis did and what Francis is thought to have done. The myth machine applauded the synodal pope, the pope who gave jobs to women, the pope who did not judge homosexuals, who protected victims of clerical abuse and held bad faith episcopal managers accountable, who said aborted babies went to heaven although unreformed church teaching left hell as a definite prospect. But these versions of the pope are illusions with little or no substance.
Train schedule showing a series of cancelled trains.
Connect Join us for an enlightening physics conference experience.
Conference title: Landed estate collections in the National Library of Ireland.
Chart showing earnings by year after graduation. 10 years after graduation the amounts are €965, €1070, €1360 respectively for degree, masters, PhD.
“Yet now, even though he has never lived in Ireland, Cork declares an affection for the place that will always be a part of him. He shares family photos of him with his wife Rebecca and their children, all full of smiles, on various trips to the southwest.”
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Book cover for ‘Education in Wicklow’
Review of Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor
Scene showing dodgy acting - Charles I character looking especially distressed
‘We believed in Wilson and he betrayed us' More ominously, others expressed their dread of the future: Now we must drill hatred into our children from their earliest age, so that in thirty years, when the time is ripe...
Book cover of ‘Travellers in the Third Reich’
Student-staff relationships A positive course climate and strong student-instructor relationships can enhance student self-efficacy in undergraduate STEM courses by fostering a more supportive and engaging learning environment. Be approachable, available, and attentive to students’ needs. Employ a conversational tone and use accessible language. Create ample opportunities for instructor-student interactions, both in whole-class and one-on-one scenarios. Allocate time for student questions and concerns. Pedagogical practice Adopting student-centred pedagogical practices is an effective way to promote student learning and enhance student self-efficacy. Employ active learning pedagogies in your classes, especially for subjects commonly perceived as challenging, such as mathematics and physics. Provide students with collaborative and peer-based learning opportunities. Proactively provide individual attention and feedback to students in science laboratories to help strengthen the positive effects of active learning on student confidence. Structure tutorial classes around mentored individual thinking and problem-solving activities. Certain teaching and learning practices may have a detrimental effect on student self-efficacy by heightening levels of stress and anxiety. Avoid cold calling in undergraduate courses. Avoid using personal response systems for timed and graded tasks. Precede active learning activities in science laboratories with sufficient instruction, especially in laboratories in which the students have differential levels of previous experience. Assessment Most students favour continuous assessment over exams and express a greater confidence in their ability to perform well on continual assessment tasks compared to exams. Design your courses to include non-exam modes of assessment. Utilise frequent, low-stake assessments to promote positive assessment experiences and help students build a robust sense of subject-related confidence over time. Supplement…
Screengrab of HISTORYHIT title screen for programme “A WORLD TORN APART: THE DISSOLUTION THE MONASTERIES” presented by PROFESSOR SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB
THE WESTERN WIND. SAMANTHA HARVEY. Com Toibín. Long Island. Our Evenings. Alan Hollinghurst. Hilary Mantel. The Mirror & the Light. Claire Keegan. Small Things Like These. DONAL RYAN. queen of dirt island. PROPHET SONG. PAUL LYNCH. J.L.Carr. A Month in the Country C.J. Sansom. Dark Fire. The Party * Tessa Hadley. WILLIAM DALRYMPLE * THE GOLDEN ROAD. Achemy * S.J PARRIS. Heresy * S.J.PARRIS. Politics On the Edge * Rory Stewart. THE OTHER RENAISSANCE * PAUL STRATHERN.
Favourite artist of each month of year showing each month = Rufus Wainwright.
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Figure legend reads: Summary of the knowledge elements and extractions that students associate with each of the four reaction mechanisms, organized by whetherthey pertain to the substrate, reaction conditions, or product.
Youtube page showing tile for each of the four speakers
Cover of Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
Flyer showing team prize for excellence in HE - with pictures of winners who are lab development team at Nottingham
Flyer for webinar on transforming the lab practical for a new generation
Book cover of Western Wind
Laboratory benches before students entered class
compendium of images with people I have interacted with over my career
10 Guiding Principles listed are: 1. Create laboratory environments that are accessible and conducive to learning. 2. Ensure coherence with intended learning goals among the professional learning community for staff involved in teaching laboratory classes. 3. Incorporate pre-laboratory activities so that students can prepare for learning in a complex environment. 4. Design scenarios to promote dialogue. 5. Include tangible opportunities for students to learn about safe and sustainable practices. 6. Model modern scientific work practices through facilitation of group and interdisciplinary work. 7. Embed opportunities for creativity and open experimentation. 8. Implement a variety of assessment types to align with intended learning goals. 9. Establish common formal and informal feedback protocols and opportunity for students to use feedback to inform future approaches. 10. Provide a mechanism by which students can document and showcase their learning.