Dr Lorraine Gibson
Principal Teaching Fellow
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Personal statement
Line-managing a 15-strong team of teaching and scholarship members of staff in the PAC Teaching School my two key areas of focus include educational management and educational research leadership as outlined below and in the research section
Educational Management
Creating strong and focussed operational teams, assigning roles and responsibilities in the Teaching School to sustain, and enhance, high quality teaching, learning and assessment, leading to an enhanced student learning experience.
Design, create and embed key graduate and employability skills training (GEST) into all PAC programmes:
- Sustainability, ethics, entrepreneurship, enterprise and emotional intelligence into our programmes.
- Understanding employers’ perceptions of student skills when entering the workforce.
- Creating and designing new GEST programmes that are integrated vertically in our UG programmes.
Supporting and sustaining an outstanding student learning experience by shaping resilient student communities:
- Listening and responding to the student voice in student-staff liaison committees (SSLC), coordination of UG personal development advisor programmes, informal focus group sessions, on-line evaluation surveys and focus groups.
Curriculum Design and Re-Design
- Lead on articulation agreements with international institutions, develop associated curricula.
- Co-creation (of curricula, intended learning outcomes and critically aligned assessment plans) with students, staff and colleagues in ODSU.
- Embedding inclusive and accessible practice and assessment to ensure programmes are relevant to a diverse student population including students with protected characteristics.
Business Growth within the Teaching School.
- Creation and implementation of new UG and PGT programmes (including on-campus and on-line offerings to home, R.U.K. and overseas markets).
- Develop knowledge exchange opportunities to expand the Department’s forensic science capabilities by developing international summer schools and CPD workshops for overseas markets.
Implementation of quality audit processes and procedures to ensure all PAC UG and PGT programmes meet accreditation standards set by profession and statutory bodies, and standards written with the QAA Benchmark Statements for Chemistry and Forensic Science.
- Chair of the Teaching Committee and SSLC, first point of contact for colleagues in student business, student lifecycles and external examiners.
- PAC member of Executive Committee and Operations Committee, Disciplinary Committee, Honours Board, General Board B, Level 1 Complaints, the Equality Diversity and Inclusivity Department.
- PAC representative on a range of Faculty Committees including: Faculty Academic Committee, e-FIRST, on-line champions, Appeals Committee.
- PAC representative on Institutional Committees including: Senate, Education Strategy Committee, Education for Sustainability Committee.
- Design and run annual Teaching Away Days for the full chemistry staffing.
Area of Expertise
- Education management
- Education leadership
- Education-led research
- Heritage and conservation science - Indoor air pollution and remediation of gaseous pollutants
- Environmental remediation - sorption and photocatalysis of volatile organic compounds and potentially toxic elements
Prize And Awards
- UK & Ireland Green Gown Award 2022
- Recipient
- 8/11/2022
- Strathclyde Team Medal (member of the Departmental EDI Team)
- Recipient
- 12/10/2022
- Strathclyde Medal: Team Award
- Recipient
- 11/10/2022
- Strathclyde Medal Awards 2021 - PAC Teaching Lab
- Recipient
- 16/9/2021
- Undergraduate Practical Skills Grant Award
- Recipient
- 25/6/2021
- UK Anna Plowden Award for Research and Innovation in Conservation Science
- Recipient
- 2002
Publications
- Students as partners in nutrition education : co-developing an elective module through participatory workshops
- Wahid Maheen, Tinto Kirsty, Currie Susan, Gibson Lorraine, Cunningham Margaret Rose, Coubrough Katie, Temple-Atkinson Katriona, Klemm Nicholas, Clark Ben, Guan Yue, Houston Grace, McGaff Amy, Turgal Ebru, Wu Jia, Xie Xinyi, Yilan Sasanka
- SIPBS Postgraduate Research Day 2025 (2025)
- Sustainable! Impact of laboratory practice and student reflection
- Gibson Lorraine, Dodds Christopher, Magowan Hannah
- Variety in Chemistry Education and Physics Higher Education (2024)
- Empowering students to critically self-reflect on graduate competencies
- Ramsay Donna, Gibson Lorraine
- Variety in Chemistry Education/Physics Higher Education Conference 2024 (2024)
- ChemQuest - the education for sustainable development game
- Gibson Lorraine, Sprick Reiner Sebastian, Thomson Patrick, Stevens David
- Variety in Chemistry Education Physics Higher Education Conference (2024)
- Use of a one-page reference guide in on-campus timed exams : reflections and assessment of its impact on students in a post-open-book world
- Gibson van Mil Lorraine T, Shermer Gan, Thomson Patrick I T
- Journal of Chemical Education Vol 101, pp. 3344–3351 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00472
- Introducing graduate employability skills to year 1 chemistry students : reflecting upon impact
- Gibson van Mil Lorraine, De Pascale Egizia, Thomson Patrick I T, Walker Sarah, Scott Fraser J
- Journal of Chemical Education Vol 101, pp. 3003-3012 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c01287
Research Interests
Educational Leadership Research
Head of Education-Led research group. Current projects include:
- Education for sustainable development.
- Practical chemistry home-kits to supplement 'bench chemistry' experience.
- Student, staff, and employer reviews to feed back into development of new graduate attribute training and employability skills development.
- Student projects and internships focussed on the creation of new graduate attributes and employability skills training.
- Creation, development, and implementation of practical home-kits to enhance a student’s learning experience in practical chemistry and forensic chemistry
- Creation of intended learning outcomes (ILOs) using the BOLD approach to curriculum design and associated critical assessment of ILOs; working together with colleagues in OSDU.
- Evaluation of inclusive practices during assessment: A review of marking procedures in final year project theses.
Empowering staff to develop independent careers in teaching, learning and scholarship.
Developing national and international communities of practice on education-led scholarship and pedagogy.
Heritage Science and Environmental Remediation
My interdisciplinary research uniquely combines heritage science and material science. It thrives through regular and sustained collaborations with chemical engineers, architects, conservation scientists, conservators, environmental scientists and technology companies. In both key areas of research LTG has an international reputation being recognised as a U.K. authority evidenced by invitations to write 3 review articles in 2013, referee grants and papers (approx.10 per y), organize international symposia and conferences (every 2 y), being an invited member of 2 European Network grants in 2008 and 2013, giving over 10 presentations at international conferences and publishing papers with international colleagues (most recently from North America, the Netherlands and Ireland). LTG’s research group currently includes 3 PhD students and 1 PDRA. Previously supervised 10 PhD students as first supervisor (all completed), 5 PhD students as second supervisor, 3 PDRAs, 2 visiting researchers and1 MPhil student. Each year the research group is complemented by 3-4 UG students undertaking final year projects (supervising over 60 UG projects since 1999).
Current PhD students (as Co-I)
Ahmed Alhidan, Mahid Haidar, Mohammed Gusbi
PhD students completed (as PI)
Ruth Idialu Ofure, Niki Hamilton, Gina Gabriel, Iain Rushworth, Khalid Mohammed N Alotaibi, Gemma Mitchell, Abdunaser Ewlad-Ahmed, Salah Idris, Claire Robertson, Claire Watt
PhD students completed (as Co-I)
Alsaleh Hussain, Klthom Mohamed Aboshlah Nshnsh, Maura Malgaretti, Abimbola Oladimegi Famuyiwa, Bushra Salim Al-Wahaibi
Postdoctoral Research Assistants (as PI)
Egizia, Margaret Smith, Claire Robertson, Jim Lewicki
Professional Activities
- Students as Partners in Curriculum Innovation: Co-Designing a Nutrition & Ageing Module
- Contributor
- 17/12/2025
- Methods in Chemistry Education Research
- Participant
- 21/5/2025
- STEM CULTURE-GAPS Participatory Workshop
- Participant
- 22/4/2025
- 16th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality in Heritage and Historic Environments (Event)
- Advisor
- 18/11/2024
- QAA Scotland (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 9/2024
- Sustainable! – Impact of laboratory practice and student reflection
- Contributor
- 29/8/2024
Projects
- CULTURE-GAPS in STEM – Collaborative University Learning for Targeting Under-representation in Research and Education – Addressing Attainment GAPS in STEM
- Cunningham, Margaret Rose (Principal Investigator) Gibson, Lorraine (CoPI) Wahid, Maheen (CoPI) Tinto, Kirsty (CoPI) Currie, Susan (CoPI)
- Wellcome Trust – Internal Funding Call Award as part of the Collaborative Cultures Funding Call 1
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Surveying Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Content Within the Pure and Applied Chemistry Curriculum
- Reilly, Donna (Principal Investigator) Gibson, Lorraine (Principal Investigator) Sprick, Seb (Principal Investigator)
- Year 4 student placement
- 12-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Developing a Home-Kit: Teaching Paper Chromatography Through Guided Inquiry-Based Learning
- Gibson, Lorraine (Principal Investigator) Thomson, Patrick (Co-investigator) Bannerman, Daniel (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 15-Jan-2022
- Research Interns@Strathclyde - Examining the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on teaching practices within the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- Walker, Sarah (Principal Investigator) Scott, Fraser (Principal Investigator) Gibson, Lorraine (Principal Investigator)
- Research Interns@Strathclyde summer project
- 05-Jan-2021 - 27-Jan-2021
- Staff Lessons on Learning to be Learned from from Lockdown - a Staff Perspective
- Gibson, Lorraine (Co-investigator)
- 05-Jan-2021 - 27-Jan-2021
- Undergraduate Practical Skills Grant Award (RSC funded £8100)
- Gibson, Lorraine (Principal Investigator)
- 25-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
Contact
Dr
Lorraine
Gibson
Principal Teaching Fellow
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Email: lorraine.gibson@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2795