Chemistry: Careers Programme: (CP16) Teaching in Higher Education (UK and USA) (1L) New
Dr Deborah Longbottom
Session Summary: In this session, Deborah will outline the opportunities that exist in both the US and the UK respectively for university jobs that are teaching-focused. She will highlight the differences which exist between the countries and explain how to prepare and apply for these positions.
Speaker Biography: Deborah Longbottom has been a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Chemistry for several years and has recently taken on the post of Head of Graduate Education. She was previously a Senior Research Associate in the group of Steven V. Ley, which followed post-doctoral studies with K. C. Nicolaou at The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California and experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Deborah currently lectures courses in the Department to first and final year students ('Reactions and Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry’ and 'Medicinal Chemistry' respectively) and is involved in many aspects of outreach work. Her research interests have encompassed both natural product synthesis and method development and most recently, a fruitful research collaboration with the O'Reilly group at Warwick University has led to interesting investigations on the synthesis and utility of polymers functionalized with organocatalytic species.
Postgraduates in the Department of Chemistry
Number of sessions: 1
# | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
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1 | Fri 3 Jun 2016 13:00 - 14:00 | 13:00 - 14:00 | Department of Chemistry, Unilever Lecture Theatre | map | Deborah Longbottom |
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1 hour
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