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Lee McMahon
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Senior chemistry technician | PhD student in Chemical Education | Science enthusiast
Delighted to be awarded the Technical Services Excellence Award 2025 from Heriot-Watt University. Special thanks to all my fantastic colleagues that nominated me!
June 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Delighted to share the first co-author publication of my PhD. A massive thanks to everyone on the team!
Let me know your thoughts 💭 ✏️

A Six-Week Student-Led Project Designed to Provide Insight into Modern Photochemistry Research | Journal of Chemical Education pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A Six-Week Student-Led Project Designed to Provide Insight into Modern Photochemistry Research
An advanced chemistry laboratory project has been developed to introduce final year undergraduate students to organic photocatalyst design using benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole (BTZ) photocatalysts, prepar...
pubs.acs.org
March 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A very merry Christmas and a happy new year to all my connections. Wishing everyone all the best from me and my best pal Joey. 🎄
December 25, 2024 at 7:05 PM
The third year chemists decided to take a break from studying and build me a Chemis-tree. 10/10 for effort. The snowman is my personal favourite. 🎅
December 7, 2024 at 11:19 AM
With Spotify wrapped taking over the world I thought would share mine. Clearly a big fan of my PhD supervisors podcast - Beyond Survival: The New Teacher Podcast. A fantastic listen and lots of wisdom from Colin McGill and his colleagues at Edinburgh Napier University.
December 5, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Successful open day today at Heriot-Watt University. Great to see so many enthusiastic scientists come through the door! An exiting journey awaits! 🧬🧪
September 28, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Something I always tell my students is the best way to learn is failure.

Practicing what I preach today as it turns out pitching a business idea to a panel of experts in one minute is not my strong point! Delighted for the winners though, innovation and creativity at its finest! #PitchPerfect
September 12, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Reposted by Lee McMahon
Super article on university lab teaching. #ChemSky #ITeachChem #ChemEd
September 10, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Looking forward to welcoming our amazing chemistry students back tomorrow! The goal this year is to incorporate new teaching approaches into my sessions inspired by my recent educational research to improve students overall learning experience! 🔬📚 #Chemistry #TeachingInnovation #HigherEd #HWU
September 8, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Keeping up with the times and excited to have migrated to Bluesky from X. The chemical education research community continues to thrive, and I'm thrilled to be part of it! Looking forward to sharing insights from my ongoing research and engaging with everyone on here. #ChemEd #ScienceEducation
September 3, 2024 at 1:01 PM