Dr Michael Batham

I am currently Laboaratory Manager for the Open Science on Campus Teaching Laboratories

I have an interest in communicating science to young persons. With a colleague Dr Rob Janes we have developed a talk called the Magic of Oxygen which we have delivered to Science Festivals, Schools and local branches of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

I have also worked on a number of television programmes. Firstly I worked on the second series of Coast BBC/ OU production on the episode about Salt from Maulden in Essex. Then I worked on the Coast episode at Port Sunlight where we made soap and had a T-shirt washing competion with the presenter Mark Horton. In 2009 I worked on the first series of Bang goes the Theory on an episode, which involved the depolymerisation of polystyrene. In 2010 I have been working for Plum Productions on a series about E-numbers and food additives.

I am currently working on remote access experiments for analytical instruments including High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Infra-Red and Ultra-violet / Visible spectrometers. I am also involved  developing and filming lab-cast experiments for our Science and Technologu modules.