Thomas Rodgers
| Thomas Rodgers | |
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| Born | Thomas Lawrence Rodgers |
| 🎓 Alma mater | UMIST[1] (MEng) University of Manchester[1] (PhD) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Laboratory Education Digital Education Teaching and Scholarship |
| 🏅 Awards |
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Thomas Lawrence Rodgers is a British chartered chemical engineer and a Reader in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester.[2]. His research is based on chemical engineering education and teaching development, specifically on how students learn during laboratory classes, focusing on how they prepare and how they interact with teaching materials as well as their engagement with rich media and online flexible learning interactive materials [3]. He is also involved with research on mixing and the scale-up of formulated product manufacturing [4]
Education
Thomas completed his Master of Engineering in Chemical Engineering with Chemistry degree at UMIST in 2007.[1]. Upon graduation, he read his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Manchester on Multiple-Scale Approach to Understanding Formulated Product Production and obtained his PhD in 2011 [5]
Research and career
Thomas completed his postdoctoral research at Durham University under the supervision of Prof. Mark Wilson and Prof Tom McLeish. His work focused on protein allostery.[6]. In 2013, he joined the University of Manchester as a lecturer in Chemical Engineering and was later promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer in 2017 and then Reader in 2022 [2][3]. From 2019 to 2020 Dr Rodgers was the discipline head of education for chemical engineering at the University of Manchester [7]
From 2015 to 2018, Thomas was a member of EPSRC Early Career Manufacturing Forum.[8] linking with EPSRC manufacturing policy and strategy. His research on manufacturing focuses on mixing and electrical resistance tomography [4][9]
Thomas’s research is currently based on chemical engineering education thus he is a member of the IChemE’s Education Special Interest group committee.[10] and has published articles in The Chemical Engineer [11] and Times Higher Education Campus [12] amongst many others [13]
In 2024 he was made a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers.[1]
Notable work
Rodgers developed the Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) training programme for the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Manchester with colleague Jenny Slaughter.[14][15]. He has then grown this to produce a peer mentored route for GTA recognition [16]
Thomas is the developer of Graphical Chemical Engineering Design [17][18]. This is an online resource of interactive graphs that can be used for chemical engineering unit operations. It is freely available for anyone to use and is currently used for teaching at a number of universities around the world.
Awards
- IChemE Morton Medal 2024[19]
- University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Award 2024 – Educational Leadership, and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery[20]
- Student's Union’s Inclusive and Accessible Teaching Practice Award 2023[21]
- University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Award 2021 – GTA mentoring[22]
- University of Manchester EPS Teacher of the Year 2016[23]
Selected publications
Thomas Rodgers, William Lionheart, Trevor York; Chapter 19 Industrial Process Tomography in Andy Adler, David Holder (eds.) Electrical Impedance Tomography, Methods, History and Applications, 2nd Edition, 2021, CRC Press, ISBN 978-0367023782.
Thomas Rodgers; Chapter 20 Sustainable Separations in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum in Gyorgy Szekely, Dan Zhao (eds.) Sustainable Separation Engineering, 2 Volume Set: Materials, Techniques and Process Development, 2022, Wiley, ISBN 978-1119740087.
Thomas L Rodgers, Phil Boulton and Percy van der Gryp; Interactive Graph Resource for Chemical Engineering Design, 2024, The Chemical Engineer, https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/features/interactive-graph-resource-for-chemical-engineering-design/.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 ORCID. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - ORCID". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 University of Manchester. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - University of Manchester". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Linkedin. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - Linkedin". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 ITOMS. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - ITOMS". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ University of Manchester. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - Thesis". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ Mark Wilson. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - Durham University". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ Thomas Rodgers. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - University of Manchester". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ EPSRC (8 January 2015). "Dr Thomas Rodgers - EPSRC". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ ISIPT. "ISIPT". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ IChemE. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - IChemE". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ IChemE. "TCE". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ THE (3 May 2023). "THE". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ Scholar. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - Google Scholar". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ University of Manchester. "Mentoring Excellence". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ Slaughter, Jenny; Rodgers, Thomas; Henninger, Claudia (2023). "An Evidence-Based Approach to Developing Faculty-Wide Training for Graduate Teaching Assistants". Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice. 20 (4). doi:10.53761/1.20.4.17.
- ↑ Rodgers, Thomas (2024). "Mentoring Excellence: What do the Mentors Gain from Graduate Teaching Assistant Peer Mentoring?". Postgraduate Peadogogies. 4.
- ↑ University of Manchester. "Graphical Chemical Engineering Design". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ Rodgers, Thomas; Bolton, Philip; van der Gryp, Percy (2023). "An interactive graph resource for chemical engineering teaching". Education for Chemical Engineers. 45: 80–89. doi:10.1016/j.ece.2023.08.004.
- ↑ IChemE. "Morton Medal". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ University of Manchester. "Dr Thomas Rodgers - TEA". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ University of Manchester. "Student Union Awards 2023". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ University of Manchester. "Mentoring Excellence - TEA". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ University of Manchester (31 October 2016). "Dr Thomas Rodgers - Teaching". Retrieved 26 September 2024.
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