Paul Adams
Creator & designer
Bournemouth and Poole College
In the short term, I plan on completing my the access course and gaining a place to university. In the long term I hope to gain a masters, and PhD in Phamacological sciences. My experience with technology and creating this website provides the skills I need to "get a foot in the door". With technology moving so quickly, scientists in any field, need to have the ability to quickly shift and learn new techniques of investigation. With this in mind, I hope to go further in exploring Pharmacoinformatics being the study of pharmacology and computational systems of the future.
I have experience in working in Bars and restaurants which helped develop my "people" skills. Along with my position held as an SME for a large technological company supporting mobile devices, have also given me skills to get me ready for the challenges of university. This has also given me the opportunity to develop this website and Google Chrome Extensions.
Other information
In this section, you can find out other relevant information about the Access course. Such as my assignments, the assignment schedule (to see just how busy it's been) and the references and links I used throughout the Access course section.
Course countdown
| WC | WK | Assign deadline | General info | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/1 | 14 | Maths for Scientists 2 | Bank Hol Mon | Submit portfolio for Cava | Submit portfolio for Cava | Submit portfolio for Cava | Submit portfolio for Cava | |
| 8/1 | 15 | Access Exam Week | CAVA moderator visit | UCAS deadline | Biology (am) Psychology (pm) | |||
| 15/1 | 16 | |||||||
| 22/1 | 17 | Study skills 2 | ||||||
| 29/1 | 18 | |||||||
| 5/2 | 19 | |||||||
| Half term HOLIDAY | ||||||||
| 19/2 | 20 | Environmental Science -Planet life support systems | Staff development day N/A to group 2 and 3 | |||||
| 26/2 | 21 | Volunteering week | Blended Learning week | Blended Learning week | Blended Learning week | Blended Learning week | Blended Learning week | |
| 5/3 | 22 | Study Skills 3 | National careers week | Student Feedback Conference | Student Feedback Conference | |||
| 12/3 | 23 | Bio chemistry 1-Practical test | ||||||
| 19/3 | 24 | Genetics 1 - presentation | Community & Social Action Day | |||||
| 26/3 | 25 | Maths for scientists 3 Lab skills |
End of Term | |||||
| Easter Holiday | ||||||||
| 16/4 | 26 | Biology - Genetics 2 Psychology 2 - Essay |
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| 23/4 | 27 | Biochemistry 1 - Essay | ||||||
| 30/4 | 28 | Environmental Science 3 presentations - in class | Student Forum week | |||||
| 7/5 | 29 | Environmental Science 3 presentations - in class | Bank Hol Mon | |||||
| 14/5 | 30 | Access Exam Week 2 Psychology 3 - report |
Physical Chemistry - Exam (am) | |||||
| 21/5 | 31 | Environmental Science 3 Conservation & Management Biology - Plants and people |
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| Half term HOLIDAY | ||||||||
| 4/6 | 32 | Maths for Scientists 4 | ACCESS - FINAL First submissions | ACCESS - FINAL First submissions | ACCESS - FINAL First submissions | ACCESS - FINAL First submissions | ACCESS - FINAL First submissions | ACCESS - FINAL First submissions |
| 11/6 | 33 | |||||||
| 18/6 | 34 | ACCESS - FINAL Second submissions | ACCESS - FINAL Second submissions | ACCESS - FINAL Second submissions | ACCESS - FINAL Second submissions | ACCESS - FINAL Second submissions | ACCESS - FINAL Second submissions | |
| 25/6 | 35 | |||||||
| 2/7 | 36 | Submit results to CAVA | Access celebration Day | END OF THE YEAR | ||||
| 9/7 | Final CAVA Moderator | Staff development day | ||||||
Assignments list
Here's a list of all my assignments that I'm able to upload. For example, in Chemistry we had to make a poster as an assignment which I'm not able to upload since it's not digital. Also we had several exams during the course, most of which I'm not able to upload. But I've tried to put the assignments in a suitable structure so that they are in the order that we handed them in for each subject.
| Access to Science Assignments | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Biology | Chemistry | Psychology | Lab skills |
| Cell biology | Chemistry poster evaluation | Exam | To be completed or uploaded |
| Exam | Exam | Psychological disorders | No more assignments |
| Genetics presentation | Biochemistry section 1 + Exam | To be uploaded | No more assignments |
| Plants and People Part A | Fate of the Enzyme - Biochem assignment 2 | No more assignments | No more assignments |
Links and references
The links and references that I've (re)found for knowledge for the access course or building the website can be found here. The image is the roadmap that I had made myself for a previous version of the website. (I wanted to put it here somewhere). Some of references were quite simply notes I had taken in class, but others are from sources where I had to write the information from scratch, only those pages I have included here.
| Access to Science references as of 8th May 2018 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biology | Chemistry | Psychology | Lab skills | Website |
| What is DNA | Class notes | Anxiety and Disorders | Class notes | W3 schools |
Feedback form
The feedback form below is just a small thing to give me any feedback about the website or anything to do with the subjects. It is all appreciated.