Chemistry without a lab
My very first trip to India was a whistle stop tour. In four days I visited ten schools in two cities and performed ten shows. Air travel being what it is, I flew in and out of Delhi. Delays on the way, however, ensured that I had to run from International Arrivals to Domestic Departures in order to catch my […]
» Read moreThe final international trip for the Kitchen Chemist in 2024 was to South Africa and Brunei at the end of July/beginning of August. Both legs of the trip were very busy and fulfilling in different ways. On my first day in Johannesburg, a Sunday, I was whisked off to the Alexandra township to work with tutors at the Sakhimfundo Foundation, […]
» Read moreThe Science Festival in Ljubljana took place from 31 May to 2 June in 2024: it’s called Znanstival and is organised by the local science centre Hiša Experimentov (The House of Experiments). Once the presenters had all ensured that their equipment was present and correct we had the opportunity to watch the “graduation” of the students of the Inspire course. […]
» Read moreApril saw the Kitchen Chemist back in Viet Nam. We has a similar itinerary as the first time, first stop Can Tho in the Mekong Delta, where we worked with Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy (CTUMP). Once again we introduced the students and staff to aspects of Kitchen Chemistry, but this time using puddle chemistry for some qualitative […]
» Read moreThe end of January 2024 saw The Kitchen Chemist setting off for Malaysia. I was once again working with the International Office of the university. I had the opportunity to visit a number of schools in Johor Barhu (also known as JB), which is at the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula. There I gave Kitchen Chemistry: Seconds, the second […]
» Read moreThe Kitchen Chemist was a conference delegate at the 2023 edition of the annual conference of the Association of the Science and Discovery Centres. The conference took place at the W5 discovery centre in Belfast. The name comes from the five question words, Who, What, Where, When, and Why. Although I didn’t have the opportunity to play the visitor I […]
» Read moreUsually Scifest Africa would be a destination for the Kitchen Chemist, but that was not to be in 2023. Instead I headed to Durban to work with with Umjikelezo We-Science cooperative, putting on Kitchen Chemistry shows at schools and working with Science Centre staff and the staff of the Durban Natural History Museum. After a week working in Durban, with […]
» Read moreAt the end of March through to the beginning of April I was fortunate to be involved with a project that took me all the way to Viet Nam. Most of the time the project involved me in rather different presentations, although Kitchen Chemistry featured in some of those. We started in Ho Chi Minh city, then visited Can Tho, […]
» Read moreIt is hard to credit that we are now more than four months away from the Norwich Science Festival, but so we are, and starting to think about next year’s edition. No Kitchen Chemistry this year, instead I was there with “The Sound of Science” show. In that show I talk about the physics behind musical instruments, and get to […]
» Read moreThe reason this trip seems a long time ago, is that it was! The Kitchen Chemist returned from Brunei at the end of January, having spent nearly two weeks there with the Brunei Primary Stem project. This is a British Council funded HE Partnership as part of their Going Global Partnership scheme. I was able to deliver workshops that combined […]
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