Chemistry activities
Over the past few years, the Chemistry staff have been heavily involved in the School’s and university’s programme of outreach activities, running a variety of successful masterclasses and workshops, both here on the Mile End campus and also in schools and various locations across the UK and also Ireland.
Recent Workshops include:
Spectroscopy Masterclasses
Always popular, these give you the chance to have your own samples run first hand on one of our 4 NMR machines or 2 mass spectrometers, followed by a masterclass on interpreting the results and also a tour of the facilities at Queen Mary.
Salters’ Festival of Chemistry
Each year around Easter time, we host the ever-popular Salters’ Institute Chemistry Festival. Teams compete over a number of chemical exercises for prizes and the day concludes with an exciting and explosive demonstration lecture.
Magic Molecules
This highly practical and fun talk is aimed specifically for younger students (5-11 year olds), but may also be adapted for a non-scientific audience of any age, such as a youth club or society. It aims to demonstrate the fun and relevance of chemistry in the modern world through a serious of bright, loud and often smelly demonstrations, using everyday objects and chemicals!
Other topics on which we can supply speakers include:
- Chemistry and Cancer
- Colourful Chemistry
- Environmental and Forensic Chemistry
- Why study chemistry?
- Careers in Chemistry/Science
We also participate in a variety of university-wide outreach activities and university-taster days.
For more information please email us on sbcs-admissions@qmul.ac.uk