Dr Gemma Houston
Teaching Associate
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Prize And Awards
- Nominated for 'Above and Beyond Teaching Award' - Long List Teaching Excellence Awards
- Recipient
- 20/5/2026
- Celebrate HER (Women+ in Leadership) Award Nomination
- Recipient
- 13/2/2024
- Strathclyde Union's Teaching Excellence Awards 2023
- Recipient
- 5/2023
- Strathclyde Union's Teaching Excellence Awards 2018
- Recipient
- 5/2018
Qualifications
Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) - January 2021
International professional recognition of commitment to learning and teaching, and alignment of applied practice to the UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF)
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Publications
- Stabilization of purely elastic instabilities in cross-slot geometries
- Davoodi Mahdi, Houston Gemma, Downie Jenna, Oliveira Mónica SN, Poole Robert J
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol 922 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.473
- Flow focusing with miscible fluids in microfluidic devices
- Houston Gemma, Capobianchi Paolo, Oliveira Monica S N
- Physics of Fluids Vol 35 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0118087
- A practical guide to inductions for improvement of resilience in large cohorts
- Henderson Emma, Houston Gemma C
- Perspectives on Enhancing Student Transition Into Higher Education and Beyond (2023) (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8198-1.ch002
- Control of purely-elastic instabilities in cross-slot geometries
- Davoodi Mahdi, Houston Gemma, Domingues Allyson, Downie Jenna, Dennis David, Oliveira Mónica SN, Poole Robert J
- Science Talks Vol 3 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2022.100054
- Purely-elastic instabilities in two-fluid flows through a flow focusing microfluidic device
- Oliveira Monica, Houston Gemma
- 18th International Congress on Rheology (2020)
- Viscoelastic effects for mixing enhancement in multiphase flows
- Oliveira Monica, Houston Gemma
- The British Society of Rheology Winter meeting 2018: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Complex Flows of Complex Fluids (2018)
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Professional Activities
- MAE Bulletin - Issue 2 July 2026
- Contributor
- 9/7/2026
- Engineering Success: Supporting Students to thrive.
- Speaker
- 2/7/2026
- MAE Summer Celebration
- Participant
- 19/6/2026
- MAE Teaching & Learning Team
- Contributor
- 19/6/2026
- EAN Congress 2026: Evolution or revolution?
- Organiser
- 17/6/2026
- Y1 PDA Workshops
- Speaker
- 16/6/2026
Projects
- Standardised MAE Exam Guidelines and Checker Form Implementation
- Saleem, Umer (Project Lead) Johnston, Daniel (Academic) Ahmad, Bilal (Academic) Houston, Gemma (Academic)
- This internal teaching enhancement project focused on the development and implementation of standardised exam guidelines and a department-wide exam checker form. Initiated in response to inconsistencies in assessment practices, the project aimed to improve clarity, consistency, and quality assurance across undergraduate and postgraduate examinations. It was completed in collaboration with academic and administrative staff within MAE and launched in July 2025.
- 01-Jan-2024
- EPSRC National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) Innovation Placements 2019 [Funding: £4 137 ]
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator) Houston, Gemma (Co-investigator) Rycroft, Ewan (Co-investigator)
- EPSRC National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) Innovation Placements
(Gemma Houston & Ewan Rycroft European School on Rheology)
2019
Funding: £4 137
PI/Supervisor: M Oliveira - 07-Jan-2019 - 06-Jan-2019
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Houston, Gemma
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator) Zhang, Yonghao (Co-investigator) Houston, Gemma (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 02-Jan-2023
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Contact
Dr
Gemma
Houston
Teaching Associate
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: gemma.houston@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 574 5068