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WHO WE ARE

I’m Laura Underwood, and I have been running Chemistry Communications since 2007. I started my career in web design and content writing, and I then went on to teach Communications courses at MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada.

From there, I went on to work on online learning projects around the world, supporting organisations such as the Open University, FutureLearn, The University of Dundee, The University of the West of Scotland, The University of Zurich (in collaboration with the Harvard Kennedy School) and many others. I currently split my time between Canada (GMT-7 timezone) and Scotland (GMT).

I am lucky to now have a small core team of three, as well as some trusted consultants who we work with regularly. Between us, we provide learning design, content authoring, graphic design, media production, quality assurance and maintenance capability for our clients.

We’ve had the pleasure of working with clients worldwide on a wide range of educational projects and have led course productions in subject areas including Technology, Education, Communications, Sociology, Health and Social Care, Marketing, and Business. 

For all of our courses, I lead on the learning design and strategy. I’m interested in how the course works for the learners as a journey, how we can use what we know about cognition and behaviour to motivate and engage them, how we can aid their memory and retention, and how we can help them to develop skills that ultimately make a positive impact in their lives.


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WHAT WE DO

Learning Design
We can help you designyour course from the ground up.

Course Production
We’ll take the lead on coursedevelopment through tolaunch and facilitation.

Quality Assurance
We’ll review existing coursesand help you optimise forbest results.

Web Development
We’ll build your educationalwebsite or set up your LMS.

Information Design
We’ll design graphics andvisualisations to help explaincomplex material.

Video & Interactive
We’ll produce scripts, storyboards, videos andinteractive content.

OUR WORK

The GROW Observatory

The GROW Observatory  https://growobservatory.org GROW is a European community of growers, scientists researchers and others passionate about the land, working to better manage soil and grow food, wh…

University of Dundee

https://siscc.dundee.ac.uk The Knowledge into Action at Scale project, run by University of Dundee, The University of the West of Scotland and the Scottish Improvement Science Collaborating Centre, de…

Open University

Details Laura freelanced with the Open University, the UK’s largest distance-learning institution, in 2014-2015. She researched and created concepts for assets used in social science modules, …

Hult International Business School

Hult International Business School http://www.hult.edu Hult offers undergraduate, master’s and MBA degrees, and executive education to students in campuses around the world. We worked with Hult’s …

Covenant Health

The Challenge With hundreds of staff needing access to thousands of files, this healthcare organization took the plunge to build a corporate intranet. They called us in to help with structuring, writi…

Olds College

Project Outline   Laura worked with Olds College on an Open Education Resource (OER) on the subject of Professional Communication. She worked with a small, distributed team to design and develop …

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