Kitchen Chemistry at the ASDC 2023

The Kitchen Chemist was a conference delegate at the 2023 edition of the annual conference of the Association of the Science and Discovery Centres. The conference took place at the W5 discovery centre in Belfast. The name comes from the five question words, Who, What, Where, When, and Why. Although I didn’t have the opportunity to play the visitor I […]

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Kitchen Chemistry in South Africa 2023

Usually Scifest Africa would be a destination for the Kitchen Chemist, but that was not to be in 2023. Instead I headed to Durban to work with with Umjikelezo We-Science cooperative, putting on Kitchen Chemistry shows at schools and working with Science Centre staff and the staff of the Durban Natural History Museum. After a week working in Durban, with […]

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Kitchen Chemistry in Viet Nam 2023

At the end of March through to the beginning of April I was fortunate to be involved with a project that took me all the way to Viet Nam. Most of the time the project involved me in rather different presentations, although Kitchen Chemistry featured in some of those. We started in Ho Chi Minh city, then visited Can Tho, […]

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Norwich Science Festival 2023

It is hard to credit that we are now more than four months away from the Norwich Science Festival, but so we are, and starting to think about next year’s edition. No Kitchen Chemistry this year, instead I was there with “The Sound of Science” show. In that show I talk about the physics behind musical instruments, and get to […]

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Kitchen Chemistry in Brunei

The reason this trip seems a long time ago, is that it was! The Kitchen Chemist returned from Brunei at the end of January, having spent nearly two weeks there with the Brunei Primary Stem project. This is a British Council funded HE Partnership as part of their Going Global Partnership scheme. I was able to deliver workshops that combined […]

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Catching up in the Chemist’s Kitchen

The Kitchen Chemist has just returned from New Zealand. It took a couple of years to get there as they closed the borders during the pandemic. I was there on an Erskine Fellowship to teach at the University of Canterbury The slideshow below shows some of the places I managed to visit and sights we saw. These include the West […]

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Kitchen Chemistry is back in action

This year Kitchen Chemistry has started emerging again after all the restrictions on travel an gatherings. The majority of bookings are made almost a year in advance so it takes a little while to gain momentum again. I have, however, had some things to do in the meantime. The first was an online presentation to the a University of the […]

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Kitchen Chemistry in New Zealand

I was invited to speak at a conference in New Zealand in July this year, and of course I took the opportunity. On the way there, and back, I stopped off in Hong Kong again. The first visit was for some more Kitchen Chemistry, but I also had a chance to meet up with our university partners. Once I arrived […]

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2019 Tour to Thailand and Hong Kong

I worked with the International Office at the University of East Anglia again this year and was asked to visit schools in Bangkok and Hong Kong, which I did at the end of May and beginning of June. I was looked after very well in both places by UEA representatives so I was spared all sorts of otherwise potentially embarrassing situations. It turned out that timings were such in Bangkok that not only did I have time for some sightseeing, but I was also able to fit in some university visits and a presentation at the Sirindhorn Science Home while I was there.

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Scifest 2019

This year Scifrest Africa made sure that it celebrated the International Year of the Periodic Table. Not only did they construct a giant illuminated periodic table, but also there were a number of lectures on the programme about the periodic table. As Curator I was able to have some influence on the programme, but I was involved with workshops, as […]

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