To provide students with more and better higher-level skills and greater awareness of the real-world relevance of chemistry.

To develop one of a broad range of C/PBL resources; to increase the number of C/PBL practitioners in HEIs

Roadmap Theme: Underpinning Science

Level: Early undergraduate 

Resource: Chemistry’s interfaces: from hamburgers to U-boats

The three component units of this problem are:

• Chemical Biology & Food (protein structure and function, the structure and role of phospholipids in cell membranes, the enzyme catalysed breakdown of food, including aspects of chemical kinetics and thermodynamics in a biological context, cellular chemistry, molecular recognition, the use of physical techniques e.g. fluorescence to probe biological processes)
• Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanoscience (physical basis of the unique physical and chemical properties of metal nanoparticles and medical applications of metal nanoparticles)
• Analytical Science (compounds such as PCBs, radionucleides, plastics and carbon isotopes and the wider anthropological impact of humans on the oceans and land, geochemical and archaeological analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry and XRF)

Increased awareness of C/PBL among HEI community; increased confidence with C/PBL and use of C/PBL within HEIs; graduates with improved higher-level skills