selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- Revisiting the Research-Teaching Nexus Framework: Two case studies introducing research into programme level, undergraduate teaching. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 33:259-272. 2022
- The benefits of sustained undergraduate inter-programme collaborations between international partners. Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. 1:31-42. 2018
- A framework for student-instructor partnerships. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 32:454-462. 2018
- Student Perceptions of Staged Transfer to Independent Research Skills During a Four-year Honours Integrated Science Undergraduate Program. Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 8. 2017
- A Catalogue of Ancient Egyptian Sundials. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 47:375-385. 2016
- New Interdisciplinary Science Course for First-Year Faculty of Science Students: Overview and Preliminary Results from the Pilot. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching. 9:43-43. 2016
- Stars of the Dead. Scientific American. 313:70-75. 2015
- Classification of Ancient Egyptian Astronomical ‘Diagrams’. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 46:66-75. 2015
- Ancient Egyptian Diagonal Star Tables: A New Fragment, and Updates for S16C and S1C. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 45:197-208. 2014
- An Ancient Egyptian Diagonal Star Table in Mallawi, Egypt. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 44:457-463. 2013
- Diagonal star tables on coffins A1C and S2Hil: A new triangle decan and a reversed table. PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/ Egyptology. 10:1-10. 2013
- Astronomy, Egyptian 2012
- Sopdet/Sothis 2012
- Problem-based learning: undergraduate physics by research. Contemporary Physics. 53:39-51. 2012
- A Tiny Adventure: the introduction of problem based learning in an undergraduate chemistry course. Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 11:33-42. 2010
- Emergence of pre-genetic coding in a model pre-biotic ecology. Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry. 9:93-99. 2009
- Astronomical ceilings. Egyptian Archaeology. 30:11-13. 2007
- Two Fragments of Diagonal Star Clocks in the British Museum. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 33:257-260. 2002
- The Karnak clepsydra: an ancient scientific instrument. Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society. 66:18-20. 2000
- Shadow clocks and sloping sundials of the Egyptian New Kingdom and Late Period: usage, development and structure. Bulletin of the British Sundial Society. 98.3:30-36. 1998
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article
- Learning Science Without Boundaries: Pedagogical Innovations that Shape the Integrated Science (iSci) Program at McMaster 2012
- Stretching, Crossing & Breaking Boundaries in the Administration of an Interdisciplinary Science Program 2012
- Designing a Modern Science Teaching Laboratory – an Interdisciplinary Approach 2012
- Evidence-based Program Design: Integrated Science 2010
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book
- Down to the Hour: Short Time in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Ed. 8. Ed. Symons, Sarah. 2019
- PossiBiLities A Practice Guide to Problem-based Learning in Physics and Astronomy 2005
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chapter
- Sopdet/Sothis. 1-1. 2023
- A problem-based learning approach to mathematics support?. 84-88. 2021
- Sun and stars: astronomical timekeeping in ancient Egypt. Ed. Symons, Sarah. 14-51. 2019
- Astronomy, Egyptian. 1-3. 2019
- A survey of astronomical tables on Middle Kingdom coffin lids. 608-612. 2017
- Challenges of interpreting Egyptian astronomical texts. 379-401. 2016
- Contexts and elements of decanal star lists in ancient Egypt. 91-122. 2015
- Egyptian “star clocks”. 1495-1500. 2014
- Agent-based models of ancient Egypt. 129-146. 2008
- A star’s year: the annual cycle in the ancient Egyptian sky. 1-33. 2007
- Egyptian shadow clocks. 13-20. 2002
- The “transit star clock” from the Book of Nut. 429-446. 2002
- Accuracy issues in ancient Egyptian timekeeping. 111-114. 2000
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conference paper
- Electromagnetic theory by problem-based learning. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 574-578. 2005
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conference poster
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