Professor Mark Lorch

ASCENTS 1-2-1 Jan 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024
A previous RCT pilot study (Sharpe, Abrahams & Fotou, 2017) found that academically asymmetrical paired mentoring intervention (the one-to-one pairing of undergraduate STEM students with disadvantaged Year 11 students) had a statistically significant... Read More about ASCENTS 1-2-1.

Flow: A place-based citizen science approach to increase widening participation in the chemical sciences from areas of high social deprivation. Jan 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2022

RSC COVID-19 Head of Department Grant Jun 1, 2020 - Jul 31, 2022
?10,000 of funding broadly for research enablement and researcher development in the chemical sciences in 2020. It should not replace or reduce institutional or funding agency support for departments.

Heads of Department may allo... Read More about RSC COVID-19 Head of Department Grant.

ECPE PPF: Getting the Plastics Circular Economy Message Out: Arts Research and Performance as a Route to Shared Arts and Science Impact and Engagement Nov 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2020

Molcraft: Exploring molecules in Minecraft Jul 1, 2015 - Dec 31, 2016
Molcraft, will use the popular computer game Minecraft as a tool for visualising and exploring chemical and protein structures. The project will develop a 'world' populated with key structures, functional groups and molecules of interest. The world w... Read More about Molcraft: Exploring molecules in Minecraft.

Hit or Myth Sep 1, 2016 - Jul 1, 2017
Hit or Myth aims to tests life-hacks which are strongly rooted in chemistry. Life-hacks offer techniques and tips which improve time management and make our lives generally more efficient. The Internet is full of these hints, but how do we know which... Read More about Hit or Myth.

Interreg - Sullied Sediments Jan 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2020
Our inland waterway ecosystems provide a circulatory system for both our urban and rural communities: a transport system bringing goods and removing waste; while in parallel also providing ‘oxygen’ promoting health of the wildlife and humans, whether... Read More about Interreg - Sullied Sediments.