Dr Dylan Williams MChem, PhD, MRSC, NTF

Dr Dylan Williams

School of Chemistry
Associate Professor in Chemistry Education

Contact details

Telephone
(+44)(0) 121 414 3462
Email
d.williams.12@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Chemistry
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dylan is an Associate Professor in Chemistry.

Dylan has developed a number of innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the chemical sciences which have made use of Context and Problem Based Learning (C/PBL), gamified approaches to learning and digital laboratory environments.

Dylan was the Director of Learning and Teaching in the School of Chemistry at the University of Leicester between 2017 and 2021 and was the leader of the Leicester Chemical Learning Enhancement and Pedagogy group in the same period.

Dylan’s work has gained external recognition resulting in the award of a National Teaching Fellowship and a Royal Society of Chemistry HE Teaching Award. In 2017 Dylan was a member of the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence Leicester Natural Sciences teaching team.

Qualifications

  • Teaching Excellence Award, University of Leicester, 2019
  • RSC Higher Education Teaching Award, 2018
  • National Teaching Fellow, 2017
  • Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (Leicester Natural Sciences team), 2017
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2014
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2012
  • University Teaching Fellow, University of Leicester, 2012
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education, University of Leicester, 2012
  • PhD in Chemistry, University of Liverpool, 2008
  • MChem in Chemistry, University of Liverpool, 2003

Postgraduate supervision

  • Erlina, University of Leicester, Graduated 2020
  • Harvey Broad, University of Leicester, Commenced October 2021

Other activities

  • Dylan is a committee member (and former Secretary) of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Higher Education Group. Dylan has contributed to the group’s work in raising the profile of Scholarship in Teaching and Learning in the Chemical Sciences (e.g. through organisation of the Variety in Chemistry Education conferences).
  • Dylan has been a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Education Awards panel since 2020.
  • Dylan has been a member of the Association of National Teaching Fellows (ANTF) since 2017.
  • Dylan has been a committed member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC) since 2008. Dylan has supported the RSC’s work through contributions made to network meetings, national conferences and working groups.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Mahomed, M, Sisodia, L, Williams, DP & Villa-Marcos, B 2024, '', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 101, no. 6, pp. 2570-2575.

Erlina, , Williams, DP, Cane, C, Hairida, Ulfah, M & Wafiq, AF 2024, '', Chemistry Education Research and Practice.

Brass, R, Braithwaite, E, Edwards, HE, Kaur, J, Kleanthous, A, Madhlangobe, TT, Mistry, AD, Suma, A, Hin, SLF & Williams, DP 2024, '', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 101, no. 9, pp. 4030-4036.

Broad, H, Carey, N, Williams, DP & Blackburn, RAR 2023, '', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 664鈥�671.

George-Williams, SR, Blackburn, RAR, Wilkinson, SM & Williams, DP 2022, '', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 99, no. 3, pp. 1383鈥�1391.

Williams, DP 2022, '', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 99, no. 4, pp. 1642鈥�1650.

Erlina, E, Cane, C & Williams, DP 2021, '', Jurnal Pendidikan IPA Indonesia, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 60-68.

Williams, D 2020, '', International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 454.

Battersby, GL, Beeley, C, Baguley, DA, Barker, HD, Broad, HD, Carey, NC, Chambers, ES, Chodaczek, D, Blackburn, RAR & Williams, DP 2020, '', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 97, no. 8, pp. 2226-2230.

Williams, DP & Karim, K 2020, '', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 97, no. 11, pp. 4039-4043.

Williams, DP, Hin, SLF & Erlina, E 2019, '', New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences.

Blackburn, RAR, Villa-Marcos, B & Williams, DP 2019, '', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 96, pp. 153-158.

Williams, DP 2018, '', New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, vol. 13.

Erlina, Cane, C & Williams, DP 2018, '', Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 95, no. 6, pp. 991-995.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Williams, D 2019, . in MK Seery & C McDonnell (eds), Teaching Chemistry in Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Tina Overton. Creathach Press, pp. 123-136. <>