About Me

Professor Michael Seery BA BA MA MSc PhD SFHEA NTF CChem FRSC

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I am Deputy Director and Head of International Foundation Programme at the Centre for Academic Language and Development, University of Bristol, and am also a Visiting Professor at the Open University.

My interests broadly focus around scholarship of learning and teaching, and systematic reform of higher education practice. I am a chemist and was previously Professor of Chemistry Education at the University of Edinburgh. My research focusses on learning in physical (especially laboratory) and digital learning environments, as well as promoting accessible and inclusive practices. I have long interest in academic writing, as a writer, editor, and in the support of others to write for academic and professional domains.

I am an experienced academic leader and I have acted as an external reviewer in a number of universities, and consultant advisor on a broad range of projects relating to my interests in universities including HKUST, Copenhagen, and Edinburgh (after my time there). At heart I am a teacher, and my focus always returns to improving learning and teaching, whatever the context.

I’m a keen amateur historian, and recently completed my BA in history at the Open University. My interests in history tend to centre around social life in the long eighteenth century. I’ve written some local history books as well as a book on how an education infrastructure developed in Ireland in this period. I also love urban history, and used to maintain a blog about the history of Dublin streets. My degree dissertation was on Welsh emigration to Ireland in the nineteenth century.

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