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Craig Campbell

@craigdcampbell.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Oxford. Lover of practical science, curly arrows, puns, vibrato and Scotland's greatest invention, the deep-fried battered Snickers (with chips) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ChemSky #ChemEd #OrgChem

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Malcolm Stewart @malcolmstewart.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
How can group work and experimental design better engage 1st year undergraduates in analytical chemistry labs? Our approach is out now in the J.Chem. Ed! #ChemEd #Oracy pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @jamiewilmore.bsky.social @charlottehancox.bsky.social @craigdcampbell.bsky.social
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Introducing Group-Based Experimental Design to UK First-Year Undergraduates: An Investigation of Solvent Polarity
Motivated by low student engagement in a traditional expository solvatochromism first-year undergraduate practical, and preuniversity student misconceptions around solvation, we have developed an acce...
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Malcolm Stewart @malcolmstewart.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@craigdcampbell.bsky.social and I have a new paper out that’s only taken about 4 years to get there! Thanks to all the co authors for their valuable input into making this the paper it is! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Development of three Higher Education professional learning networks in response to COVID-19: a case study
The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic brought in-person teaching to an abrupt halt in March 2020 posing the problem of how to continue to deliver undergraduate courses remotely. This paper presents a ...
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Malcolm Stewart @malcolmstewart.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
What an amazing #ViCEPHEC25 conference organised by @cate-cx.bsky.social and team. My team even won a poster prize @craigdcampbell.bsky.social
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Just finished teaching my introductory course on Organic Reaction Mechanisms to our Year 1 chemistry undergraduates. I wrote this paper to share the unique approach, in which we develop some simple rules so students can predict mechanisms rather than just learn them. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Priority and Selectivity Rules To Help Students Predict Organic Reaction Mechanisms
Organic reaction mechanisms lie at the heart of developing an understanding of how the molecular world functions. However, many students simply try to memorize mechanisms, or use their knowledge of th...
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Claire Murray @drclairemurray.com · 15/11/2024
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Craig Campbell @craigdcampbell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I am one of those 1,000,000+ new additions to Bluesky! - Looking forward to it expanding ever further so I can casually browse the latest chemistry developments, practically and in chemical education research!
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 16/11/2024
Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky! 18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️
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