Attended the 12th Irish Variety in Chemistry Education meeting yesterday. Good to catch up with everyone. It was fab to so many presenters highlight their publications of work done and underway. Thanks Claire McDonnell and Dr. Sarah Rawe PhD 🎓💙 for organising.

The Scottish Diversity in Science towards Social Inclusion Dream Team Strathclyde Institute of Education has published 'Someone Like Me: A Trial of Context-Responsive Science as a Mechanism to Promote Inclusion' in Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal - thanks also to the RoySocChem Scottish Education for their funding Dr Kirsty Ross (she/her) Jane Essex
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Very excited that the article I co-authored with the wonderful Dr. Maartje De Meulder is now available online: 'Language diaries in the study of language use and language choice: the case of Flemish Sign Language and Scottish #Gaelic '
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save the date! 🥳🥳
We try to keep on traditions in this case and would like to invite you to our summer symposium on chemistry education - revival.
More information to follow.

Speakers include Dr Audrey Cameron, OBE, HonFRSC , Jane Essex , Stephanie Urwin, Harvey Newman, Ioanna Hadjispyride, Jake Redpath and Thomas Boers. Networking afterwards.

I’m delight to share details of this to be held ⁦The University of Edinburgh⁩ on Tuesday 12th Feb 2024 from 5-7 pm. Very well done to ⁦Nghị Nguyễn⁩ for organising it! I will be speaking, as will my esteemed colleague ⁦Dr Audrey Cameron, OBE, HonFRSC⁩ #chemistryforALL

The The ASE Inclusive Science Education meeting with Rob Butler is always a highlight. Today’s speaker is Dr Audrey Cameron, OBE, HonFRSC who is talking about her pioneering work in sign language in STEM. A fantastic conceptual tool for many learners, not just those with hearing impairment.

Neurodiverse scientists in the workplace

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A new Comment article from Jane Essex on supporting neurodiversity in STEM

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A reminder it's our next Inclusive science group meeting this Wednesday at 4pm. Join Jane Essex as we hear from Adam Wray - ACE Tiverton School

Come along to ask questions or just to listen. No expectations - we just want to support teachers.

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Register for this years Royal Society of Chemistry Science & the Parliament #SatP23

📅 Wednesday 22nd November
⌚️ 1200 - 1900
📌 Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh

Registration 👉 shorturl.at/drGJS

#RSC_Scotland #ChemEd #SciComm #RealTimeChem #Time4Chem

Teach HE Chem in the UK/Ire? We're looking at student anxiety in the chemistry labs and have a study ready to go. Interested in helping out? Let me know!

#chemed folks I am looking for great examples, and practitioners, of inclusive practice in FE and HE chemistry for those with disabilities. People like Dr Audrey Cameron, OBE, HonFRSC and ChemBAM who are changing how we think about chem ed. Suggestion, please!

Thinking about applying for the BA Childhood Practice Strathclyde Institute of Education? Join us for this information session and find out more about the course and how it is designed to fit around your life and work.

🗓️2nd October
⏲️7pm
🖥️on Zoom

Sign up here forms.office.com/e/AVs5euA9BN

Voices of the unheard: diversifying approaches to capturing, understanding and positioning the voices of participants in language and literacy research
BERA Literacy and Language SIG Zehui Yang Karen Forbes Barbara Skinner Jane Essex
#BERA_LitandLang

Register here: bera.ac.uk/event/voices-o…

Hearing about science education as a research field, it was good to hear tribute paid to former Keele University 🐿️ staff member, Richard Kempa, cited as a pioneer.

Diversity in Science towards Social Inclusion presenting the forth presentation at the #esera2023 . The talk is given by Jane Essex and Dr Inge Birnie
Erasmus+ #erasmusplus

The last presentation by the Diversity in Science towards Social Inclusion team, here at esera2023 It will be great to see the work of our different teams in one ‘zipped up’ session.

Chemistry teachers in Scotland
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