Category: Nuggets
Starting scholarship conversations in the Durham Physics Department
We report on a successful teaching symposium at Durham – and share how you can host your own!
PER Across the Pond: Reflections from the McMaster PER Symposium
McMaster University in Canada hosted its first Physics Education Research and Practice Symposium, featuring a keynote from Nobel Laureate Prof. Carl Wieman, other amazing talks by Canadian physics education researchers, and an amazing discussion panel on The Future of Physics with two Nobel Laureates, the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, and a…
Teaching Programming Across Disciplines Book launched
For the past two and a half years, a community for those who teach programming to students in disciplines outside of pure computer science has been building, centred around the University of Edinburgh, and the (for historical reasons) pairprogramming.co.uk website and blog.
PER at the SUPA Annual Gathering
Victoria M. Arbour, University of Glasgow The 2026 SUPA Annual Gathering featured a dedicated PER theme session, bringing together researchers from across Scotland to share work on feedback literacy, AI tutoring, student reasoning, and more. On May 20, 2026, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) held its Annual Gathering at the University of the West…
“Where Do I Appear in the Statistics?” Physics Education Through an Intersectional Lens
As a PER community, we must look beyond broad categories and ask whose experiences our datasets erase. If our analyses overlook those at the intersections of identity, we risk reinforcing the very inequities we aim to challenge.
From Cautious Ambition to Coordinated Action: Reflections on the “Decolonising the Physics Curriculum” workshop
The physics community wants to change its curriculum. What it needs now is confidence, capacity, and shared resources.
The role of Inter Rater Reliability in the qualitative analysis of interview data
Consistency in coding is central to the integrity of qualitative analysis
Student generated content with PeerWise
Unleash the creativity of your students with this free resource that allows generation and sharing of multiple choice questions.
The educational benefits and impact of a student co-created outreach instrument
Building an auroral simulator as part of an undergraduate final year project, how the idea was developed and the impact of sharing it with colleagues in Dundee.
An intervention for imposter phenomenon in physics undergraduates
Understanding and addressing imposter phenomenon in physics undergraduate students may lead to improved retention of under-represented groups.
