Lee McMahon

Happy new year everyone! Wishing you all a fantastic 2026 🎉

Delighted to be awarded the Technical Services Excellence Award 2025 from Heriot-Watt University. Special thanks to all my fantastic colleagues that nominated me!

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...

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 very merry Christmas and a happy new year to all my connections. Wishing everyone all the best from me and my best pal Joey. 🎄

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. 🎅

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.

Successful open day today at Heriot-Watt University. Great to see so many enthusiastic scientists come through the door! An exiting journey awaits! 🧬🧪

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

Super article on university lab teaching. #ChemSky #ITeachChem #ChemEd

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

Thank you very much, Rae! I am glad you enjoyed it! Keep in touch.

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