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A vote for Claire Anderson is a vote for progress in pharmacy.
May 12, 2015
Professor Claire Anderson is standing for election to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society English Pharmacy Board. Why did you study pharmacy? My Grandfather, who sadly died before I was born, was a community pharmacist in a small village in North Wales. My Grandmother kept the pharmacy going and I have very early memories of it. My …
Pharmacy School Research Blog
March 31, 2015
Here is the latest Pharmacy School Research Blog, created by Jonas Emsley: Dear All, Welcome to the pharmacy school research blog which covers updates from our research activity including all the developments on big advances in research and publications, press releases in the pharmaceutical sciences 1. Outstanding result for research outputs in REF2014 The …
Felicity Rose’s blog for International Women’s Day
March 11, 2015
I have always had a keen interest in science, even from right back at primary school. I can remember eagerly working through my workbooks and even enjoying learning how to wire a plug! This continued through secondary school and I even came top of my year in physics in year 9. Following A-levels, I studied …
Li-Chia Chen’s blog for International Women’s Day
March 9, 2015
Clinical pharmacy My journey to become an academic reflects a global trend in the evolution of the pharmacy profession. I was trained as a hospital pharmacist in Taiwan. When I attended the undergraduate pharmacy programme, I was always taught that ‘clinical pharmacy’ is the future of the pharmacy profession. After I graduated, I practised as …
Rachel Elliott’s blog for International Women’s Day
March 6, 2015
Life skill 1: Changing my mind I love organic chemistry. Before I started my ‘A’-levels, I had read all the textbooks. I chose a Pharmacy degree so that I could learn medicinal chemistry, and l liked the security of a professional qualification. Planning on going back to uni for a PhD in medicinal chemistry, I …
Claire Anderson’s blog for International Women’s Day
March 4, 2015
Bearded committees Having worked as both a hospital and community pharmacist, one day I saw an advert for a job as a lecturer at King’s College London. Half of the role was to develop postgraduate education for community pharmacists and half to provide continuing education for community pharmacists (pharmacists this was in the dark days …
Cornelia de Moor’s blog for International Women’s Day
March 2, 2015
Small wonders I have always seen the beauty in small living things, ever since I found a worm in the lawn in my first summer. Much of my childhood was spent finding feathers, daisies, tadpoles, mushrooms, berries and critters. My parents, although slightly mystified, encouraged my interests. They gave me a camera, which I mostly …
An awful shame
January 5, 2015
Here is the sixth blog from our Emeritus Professor, Malcolm Stevens, FRS: Nitrogen fixers In 1967 the work of my small team at the Pharmacy Department, Heriot-Watt University, focussed on three related structures: triazines, which are six-membered rings containing three nitrogen and three carbon atoms; triazenes, which contain an array of three contiguous nitrogen atoms …
The Engleesh’ll Getya
December 8, 2014
Here is the fifth blog from our Emeritus Professor, Malcolm Stevens (FRS) Black-brick Universities 1965 was a great time to be looking for academic jobs in pharmacy. The Robbins Report of 1963 had recommended that 10 Colleges of Advanced Technology (CATs) should be upgraded to universities; five of these institutions had pharmacy schools and were …
School of Pharmacy Research Blog – October 2014
October 23, 2014
Dear All Welcome to the pharmacy school research blog which covers updates from our research activity including all the developments on big advances in research and publications, press releases in the pharmaceutical sciences Nottingham is the Top School of Pharmacy in England The 2015 Guardian University Guide and 2015 Complete University Guide have been published …
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