Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- p.henderson@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272903
- Office Address
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041 (south entrance, lower ground) Meston Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Meston Walk
AB24 3UE
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
External Memberships
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Aberdeen and North East Scotland Local Section
- Research
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Research Overview
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9334-538X
SCOPUS Author ID: 7202609020
Education
Honours student projects include:
Green chemistry and sustainability
Assessment attitudes and metacognition
Motivation and self-determination during covid online learning
Learning in the laboratory
Outreach and recruitment
Liquid Crystals
Synthesis and characterisation
Structure-property relationships in dimers and oligomers
New molecular architectures and mesophases
Ferro- and anti-ferroelectric materials for display applications
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Undergraduate, 4 year, September start
- Undergraduate, 5 year, September start
- Postgraduate, 3 semester, September start
Courses
Teaching Responsibilities
I teach (lectures, labs, tutorials) on a variety of courses at all levels from access courses through to taught postgraduate masters. I coordinate a number of courses.
I was previously (2018-2025) the Chemsitry Director of Undergraduate Pathways, overseeing recruitment and teaching, learning & assessment on undergraduate degree programmes. I lead the Royal Society of Chemsitry accreditation of out undergraduate degree programmes twice during that time.
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
School Senior Personal Tutor
Elected member of Senate
