Staff profile

staff list  BackDr Kevin Carlton

  • Job title: Principal Lecturer
  • Dept: Geographical and Life Sciences
  • Tel: 01227 782275
  • Campus: Canterbury
Dr Kevin Carlton

PhD(Kent), MEd (Brunel), BSc (Bristol), PGCE(St. Mary's), MInstP, CPhys, FHEA - Principal Lecturer

Teaching Responsibilities

BA/BSc:- physics, electronics, computer interfacing, maths, radiographic science, science of music, environmental science. PhD:- NMR research

Research Interests

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, latest project involves using the NMR MOUSE to investigate human skin. Also research into Science Education.

Post Held

Kevin Carlton is a principal lecturer in the Science Department at Canterbury Christ Church University. He teaches the Physics and Electronics parts of the courses with Dr. David Andrews.

Teaching Experience

He was formerly a secondary school teacher at Cranford Community School in Hounslow and Barnhill School in Hillingdon before moving on to teach Physics and Computer Science at Uxbridge College . Whilst at Uxbridge he obtained a master's degree in education from Brunel University. He subsequently joined Canterbury Christ Church University in 1989.

Research Interests

His special research interest is in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, particularly in the field of diffusion studies. At the moment he is researching in this area with the NMR group. at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he obtained his PhD in 1998. His latest project involves using the NMR MOUSE to investigate human skin.

Publications

He and Eric Parkinson have written a number of books on science for primary teachers including:

  • "Electricity and Magnetism - Photocopy Masters" NES Arnold
  • "Teaching Technology" NES Arnold
  • "Physical Science a Primary Teacher's Guide" Cassell
  • "The Environment a Primary Teacher's Guide" Cassell

and Kevin has written a number of articles including:

  • Carlton, KJ (2008) Old technology learns new tricks Physics Education pp 567-8.

  • Carlton, KJ, Lisgarten, D & Shimmin J (2008) Photography simplifies small-scale measurements Physics Education pp 8-9.

  • Carlton, KJ & Lisgarten, D. (2006) Home-made head tanks can be used to demonstrate Darcy's Law Physics Education Sept. 2006, pp376-77.

  • Carlton, K. (2003) I-science is i-deal. Letter in Physics World p21. May 2003

  • Routley, Nathan R and Carlton, Kevin J (2004) The Halo system – a lightweight portable imaging system Magnetic Resonance Imaging 22 (2004) 1145-1151 ISSN: 0730-725X

  • Carlton K, Nicholls M and Ponsonby D (2004) Using spreadsheets to teach aspects of biology involving mathematical models J. Biological Education 38 (4) 183-186.   ISSN:

  • Carlton K J (2002) Controlling high power devices with computers or TTL logic circuits Physics Education 37 (4) 329-334. ISSN: 0031-9120

  • Routley N, Carlton KJ, Mallett MJD & Blumler P (2001) Investigation of (human) skin using surface NMR techniques. Canterbury Christ Church University College 1pp.

  • Carlton K.J., Nicholls M.K.(2001) A practical to investigate Darcy's law of hydraulic flow and to teach about rate of change, Physics Education, 36, 3, p236-242
  • Carlton K.J. , Halse M, Strange J (2001) NMR stray-field analysis of oil drop size distribution in peanut cotyledons, European Biophysics Journal, 29, 8, p574-557
  • Carlton K.J. , Halse M, Strange J (2000) Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of Bacteria Colonies in the STRAFI Plane, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 143, 1, p24-29
  • Carlton K.J. (2000) Teaching about heat and temperature, Physics Education, 35, 2,p101
  • Carlton K.J., (1999) Teaching electric current and electrical potential, Physics Education, 34, 6 p341-345
  • Carlton K.J., (1997) Fourier Transforms and k-space - with applications to MRI, Clinical MRI, 6, 4, pp132-137
  • Carlton K.J., (1996) Radio Frequency Coils in MRI, Clinical MRI, 6, 2, pp68-73