Rate My Professor Siobhan Wills

Dr Siobhan Wills serves as Senior Lecturer in Chemistry in the School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics at Murdoch University, joining the institution as new staff in 2024. Previously, she was a Lecturer in the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Wills earned her BSc International (Hons) in Chemistry and French from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and completed her PhD in carbohydrate chemistry at UWA under the supervision of Associate Professor Keith Stubbs. After her doctorate, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the research department of Bayer Crop Science in Frankfurt, Germany, before returning to Australia for her academic appointment at UNSW.

Her primary research focus lies in chemistry education and the scholarship of teaching and learning, complemented by interests in carbohydrate chemistry and small molecule synthesis. She has published on student attitudes toward online assessments, equitability in digital assessment, perceptions of ineffective assessment practices in science education, and the role of generative AI in feedback. Notable publications include 'Towards Nickel–NHC Fluoro Complexes—Synthesis of Imidazolium Fluorides and Their Reactions with Nickelocene' (Molecules, 2024), 'What Does Success Mean to Chemistry Students? Exploring Definitions, Supports, and Barriers' (2025), 'Equitability factors impacting attitudes relating to digital assessment' (2023), 'Chemistry students' changing attitudes to online assessments', 'I try my very best and then I send it to the wizards who make up numbers: science students' perceptions of (ineffective) assessment and feedback practices' (2023), 'Designing online pre-laboratory activities for chemistry undergraduate laboratories' (2019), and her PhD thesis 'Investigations into carbohydrate-based scaffolds for biological and materials applications' (UWA). With 163 citations on ResearchGate across 16 publications, her work influences pedagogy in undergraduate chemistry. Wills serves as the contact for the Chemistry Discipline Network and participates in Royal Australian Chemical Institute events.