Dr Sarah Walker
Teaching Fellow
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Personal statement
I joined the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry in January 2018 and specialise in teaching organic chemistry and spectroscopy, lead the departmental employability agenda and co-facilitate the industrial placement programme for MChem students.
Prior to my career in academia, I worked in the not-for-profit sector and also in industry.
I have an interest in chemistry education research with a particular focus on student employability skills, adoption of new teaching practices and comparison between experts and novices in solving chemical problems.
Prize And Awards
- Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Recipient
- 2021
- Teaching Excellence Awards 2020 - University of Strathclyde
- Recipient
- 2020
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Recipient
- 9/2019
- Runner up - RSC Organic Division Poster Symposium
- Recipient
- 2014
- Associate Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Recipient
- 2011
Qualifications
PGCert (Learning and Teaching)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Publications
- Tetrazine‐responsive self‐immolative linkers
- Neumann Kevin, Jain Sarthak, Gambardella Alessia, Walker Sarah E, Valero Elsa, Lilienkampf Annamaria, Bradley Mark
- Chembiochem Vol 18, pp. 91-95 (2017)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201600560
- Oxidative Heck desymmetrisation of 2,2-disubstituted cyclopentene-1,3-diones
- Walker S E, Lamb C J C, Beattie N A, Nikodemiak P, Lee Ai -Lan
- Chemical Communications Vol 51, pp. 4089-4092 (2015)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC00407A
- Palladium‐catalyzed direct C-H functionalization of benzoquinone
- Walker Sarah E, Jordan-Hore James A, Johnson David G, Macgregor Stuart A, Lee Ai-Lan
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol 53, pp. 13876-13879 (2014)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201408054
- Development of Pd(II) catalysed oxidative Heck reactions and CH functionalisations
- Walker Sarah
- RSC Organic Division Poster Symposium 2014 (2014)
- Ligand- and base-free Pd(II)-catalyzed controlled switching between Oxidative Heck and conjugate addition reactions
- Walker Sarah E, Boehnke Julian, Glen Pauline E, Levey Steven, Patrick Lisa, Jordan-Hore James A, Lee Ai-Lan
- Organic Letters Vol 15, pp. 1886-1889 (2013)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ol400539h
Teaching
My current teaching responsibilities include:
CH107 Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy
CH208 Fundamental Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopy
CH214/218 Practical and Transferable/Employability Skills
CH315/CH306 Practical and Transferable/Employability Skills
CH450/458 Distance Learning - Organic Chemistry
CH437 - Final year BSc programme Career Skills
I am also the Departmental Employability Lead.
Professional Activities
- Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student employability: An employer’s perspective
- Speaker
- 7/7/2022
- Outreach that reaches all
- Interviewee
- 6/7/2022
- Chemistry for All Outreach Grant Workshop
- Participant
- 23/9/2021
- Senate member - University of Strathclyde (Event)
- Member
- 8/2021
- Strathwide early career researcher seed funding proposals (Event)
- Advisor
- 26/7/2021
- Methods in Chemistry Education Research 2021
- Participant
- 25/5/2021
Projects
- Enhancing Chemistry and Science Career Motivation in Scottish Primary Learners.( Outreach Fund - Large Grants 2023)
- Scott, Fraser (Principal Investigator) Walker, Sarah (Co-investigator) Willison, Debra (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- ChemSTEP
- Willison, Debra (Principal Investigator) Scott, Fraser (Co-investigator) Walker, Sarah (Co-investigator)
- 20-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2024
- RSC funded ChemSTEP Outreach project
- Walker, Sarah (Co-investigator) Willison, Debra (Principal Investigator) Scott, Fraser (Co-investigator)
- Working with industrial partners and schools to provide chemistry-relevant career information to secondary school students in areas of low social-economic status. £25,000
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2023
- 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
- Examining the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Employability of Students - an Employer’s Perspective (Emma Burns)
- Walker, Sarah (Principal Investigator) Gibson, Lorraine (Co-investigator) Scott, Fraser (Co-investigator)
- 21-Jan-2021 - 20-Jan-2021
Contact
Dr
Sarah
Walker
Teaching Fellow
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Email: sarah.e.walker@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2439