ProfessorStuart Thickett

Teaching Expertise, Awards and Innovation

Stuart has broad teacihng experience in chemistry, chemical engineering (including topics in materials science and polymer chemistry) since 2010, at UNSW, The University of Sydney and the University of Tasmania. An award winning educator Stuart received a Teaching Merit Certificate from the University of Tasmania in 2017 and the Executive Dean’s Award for Development and Innovation in Teaching and Learning in 2018, as well as three student-nominated Teaching Appreciation Certificates (2022, 2023, 2025).

Stuart has led major curriculum renewal and innovation: in 2016-18, Stuart led the redesign of the first year Chemistry laboratory program to introduce a competency-based, criterion-driven assessment model to ensure the development of student proficiency in a laboratory setting. In 2022-24, Stuart led the introduction of a new final-year polymer chemistry laboratory program as a cross-institutional project with Flinders University, South Australia. This program enabled the connection of theoretical concepts in polymer science with experimental practice and characterisation skills.

Stuart is also committed to the development of digital learning tools in chemistry to build digital literacy amongst students and help develop job-ready skills and expertise.

Current teaching responsibilities

KRA343 Structure and Materials, Unit coordinator and topic lecturer (Molecular Spectroscopy and Symmetry)
KRA113 Chemistry 1A, Topic lecturer (Chemical Thermodynamics)
KRA242 Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Topic lecturer (Chemical Kinetics and Surface Chemistry)
KRA341 Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Topic lecturer (Polymer Chemistry)