Pharmacists working alongside GPs to improve patient care: an idea that has come of age
March 17, 2015
Plans announced today by the Royal College of General Practice (RCGP) and Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) to have an “army” of pharmacists to help treat patients at GP practices across England have been welcomed by staff in the the School of Pharmacy who have undertaken research in this area. Follow the action on Twitter at …
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 Insider’s Guide to the Life Academic
February 12, 2015
The American comedian Lois C.K. in his act described the pursuit of undertaking a doctorate of philosophy as ‘not particularly impressive, as you basically just study one thing for three years’. What he doesn’t elaborate on though is just exactly how much breadth, adventure and variety there is to studying ‘just one thing’. Last week, my …
National Cancer Day (4th February)
February 4, 2015
If you’re not currently aware, today is National Cancer Day! Cancer seems to have filtered into my life as of late from the Cancer module last semester to volunteering at Cancer Research UK and I’m sure most peoples lives have been touched by the disease. Although no doubt we think of loved ones daily, today …
An insider’s look at a Centre for Doctoral Training
February 2, 2015
When I first thought about doing a PhD, I had no idea there were so many different things to consider: country, university, school, academic group, funding, research area… this list goes on and could probably be a publication in itself. Everyone stressed the importance of picking the right topic, and I found, not surprisingly, this …
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 …
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