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Paul Wyatt
Career
Paul did his degree in Natural
Sciences in Queens' College at Cambridge University. He then spent a
year as a schoolteacher at Bishop
Wordsworth's School in Salisbury before moving back to Cambridge to
do a PhD with Dr
Stuart Warren. His PhD was concerned with the
synthesis of enantiomerically pure phosphine oxides.
Paul then moved to Uppsala in Sweden on a Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellowship where he became a postdoctoral worker with Prof. David Tanner. It was here he worked on the synthesis of new aziridine ligands. One year later, in 1996, he took up his current post at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol. In 2003 Paul was
appointed Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Chemistry
and in 2005 also took on the Directorship of BRISTOL ChemLabS
- a HEFCE
Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning.
Teaching
Paul has a keen
interest in
teaching and in innovation of teaching.
Innovations include - An integrated first year laboratory. The introduction of Organic Chemistry Problem Classes - a masterclass format of seminar in which undergraduates present their answers to the rest of the class. General questions in level II examinations Distance Learning for placement students Online preworkshop questions. These efforts were recognised in 2003 with the Clifford Wharton Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the School of Chemistry which was then followed in 2004 with the Faculty of Science Teaching Award. Industrial CPD Paul gives Continuing Professional Development courses together with Dr Stuart Warren to international pharmaceutical companies on topics including Retrosynthesis, Asymmetric Synthesis, Modern Methods and Advanced Heterocyclic Synthesis. 2005 Organon, Oss, Netherlands 2004 Organon, Oss, Netherlands 2004 AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden 2004 SCI, Aston University, Birmingham 2003 AstraZeneca, Macclesfield 2003 Lilly, Windlesham 2003 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Alderley Park 2003 Solvay, Weesp, Netherlands 2002 SCI, University of Surrey, Guildford 2002 Organon, Oss, Netherlands 2002 Organon, Oss, Netherlands 2002 Lilly, Windlesham 2002 AstraZeneca, Avlon Works, Bristol 2002 AstraZeneca, Macclesfield 2001 Tocris Cookson, Avonmouth, Bristol 2000 Novartis, Basel, Switzerland 2000 Solvay, Weesp, Netherlands 2000 Tocris Cookson, Avonmouth, Bristol 2000 SCI, University of Surrey, Guildford 1999 Zeneca Agrochemicals, Jealott’s Hill 1999 AstraZeneca, Avlon Works, Bristol 1998 Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Alderley Park 1998 Organon, Oss, Netherlands 1998 SCI, University of Surrey, Guildford 1996 Organon, Oss, Netherlands |