Staff Directory: Dr Nigel Freestone

A chemist by training, Nigel has been at the University of Northampton for 20 years and has a wealth of teaching experience.

• 1986 PhD (Nuclear Chemistry), University of Leicester.
   Title: Purification of uranium hexafluoride by non-aqueous means
• 1983 MPhil (Electrochemistry), University of Southampton.
   Title: Anodic oxidation of lead in sulfuric acid
• 1981 B.Sc.(Hons) Chemistry, University of Bradford.

In collaboration with the Charted Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) he pioneered the development of first degree level courses in wastes management in the United Kingdom. Northampton is now widely regarded as a Centre of Excellence in Wastes Management education, training, consultancy and research, and currently offers the largest portfolio of courses in the world in this new discipline. In addition Nigel has published several hundred current awareness and historical features in chemistry-based magazines and journals.

Other Activities

Developed the curriculum for the national standard and advanced training courses in recycling for WRAP

Administration

• Head of Division
• CAF Field Chair Environmental Science

Member of

• School of Science and Technology Quality Standards Enhancement Committee
• Academic Quality & Standards Committee
• Member of Academic Audit Review Committee

APL Officer for the University

Director of SITA Centre

Other Interests

• Science writing
• Compiling puzzles
• Leicester City FC
• Music
• Dogs

Course Leader for:

• MSc Wastes Management
• FdSc Wastes Management
• BSc Environmental Science

Undergraduate Modules

• ENV1001 Air & Water - Principles
• ENV1004 Environmental Issues
• ENV1008 Landfill Science
• ENV1010 Wastes as an Environmental Issue
• ENV1016 Fundamentals of Environmental Science
• ENV2025 Wastes Management
• ENV2032 Waste Collection, Sorting and Transfer
• ENV2035 Work Based Learning in the Wastes Industry
• ENV3012 Hazardous Wastes Management
• ENV3018 Wastes Minimisation & Recycling

HNC Units

• Applying Environmental Science to the Management of Wastes
• Managing Facilities within the Wastes Industry
• Managing the Handling and Disposal of Wastes
• Investigating Analysing and Reporting on a Wastes Management Topic

Postgraduate

• ENV020 Advanced Thermal Wastes Management Technologies

• History of Chemistry
• BPEO

Other publications

Books

• Freestone, N.P. & Holloway, J.H. (1991) Advances in Actinide and Lanthanide Halide Synthesis. Van Nostrand.
• Freestone, N.P. & Holloway, J.H. (1993) Thorium Halides Supplementary Volume. Gmelin Institute.

Current Awareness Articles

• Applied Highlights , a review of chemical breakthroughs with potential industrial implications, published in Chemistry & Industry six times per year since March 1989.
• Progress in Organic Intermediate Synthesis, a review of current trends in organic synthetic processes, published monthly in every issues of Performance Chemicals from August 1987 to February 1997.
• Distillates , a critical review of chemical discoveries and breakthroughs, published quarterly in Education in Chemistry from 1988 to 1992.

History of Chemistry Articles

• Chemical Calendar, published monthly in Chemistry in Britain from October 1988 to February 1991.
• On This Day, published twice monthly in Chemistry & Industry from March 1989 to June 1996.
• A History of Chemistry, published in all four issues of Education in Chemistry in 1990.

Selected Papers and Other Publications

• Freestone, N.P. (1988), Chemistry Save Medical Trees from Extinction. New Scientist 1643; 13
• Freestone, N.P., Phillips, P.S., Alder, R.W. (1992), Chemistry in Comics, Chemistry in Britain 28, 30-32.
• Freestone, N.P., Hall, R.J., Phillips, P.S., (1994 ) Having the Last Laugh, Chemistry in Britain 30, 48-53.
• Freestone, N.P., Hall, R.J., Phillips, P.S., (1994), Dealing with Leachate, Chemistry in Britain 30, 828-830.
• Freestone, N.P., Phillips, P.S., (1997) Chemistry of Landfill, Education in Chemistry, 34, 11-14.
• P. S. Phillips, K. Holley, M.P. Bates and N. Freestone (2003) , Corby Waste Not: A critical appraisal of the UK's largest holistic waste minimisation project; Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 36,1-33
• P.S. Phillips, N. Freestone, M.P. Bates, T. Coskeran and A. Woolridge (2005). The new technologies workstream for solid waste in England: Demonstration to evaluate the most cost effective methods to manage BMSW. 20 th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management 3-7 April, 2005, Pp. 234-244. Philadelphia , USA . ISSN: 1091 - 8043

External Examinership

• External for a review of wastes management provision at UWIST (2000 & 2007), Lauder College (2006)
• External expert advisor for the accreditation of postgraduate courses by the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (2001, 2002 & 2003)
• Appointed external examiner for a range of masters degrees in wastes management at the University of Central Lancashire (September 2003).
• External Examiner for MPhil and PhD students at the Universities of Central Lancashire (2005, 2006), Glasgow Caledonian (2006), DeMontfort (2005, 2006).and Swansea (2008)