Elements of Sustainable Chemistry

Research publications

Publications from researchers in the Elements of Sustainable Chemistry (ESC) research hub can be found below. Where possible, links or copies of seminar material are provided.

Research articles
  • Delaney, S., Donnelly, S., Rochette, E. and Orgill, MK. (2024) A system mapping activity to visualize lithium’s interconnectedness to societal and environmental aspects of the green energy transition, Chemistry Teacher International, https://doi.org/10.1515/cti-2023-0051
  • Schultz, M. and Delaney, S. (2022). Development, Use, And Evaluation of Chemistry Outreach Activities Related to the Periodic Table and Sustainability, Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 99, no. 12, pp. 3921-3929, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c01035
  • Schultz, M., Chan, D., Eaton, A. C., Ferguson, J. P., Houghton, R., Ramdzan, A., Taylor, O., Vu, H. H. and Delaney, S. (2022) Using Systems Maps to Visualize Chemistry Processes: Practitioner and Student Insights, Education Sciences, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 596, https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12090596
  • Delaney, S., Fehervari, A., Moon, V. and Schultz M. (2022) Building More Sustainably with Concrete: A Guided Inquiry Investigation, Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 99, no. 12, pp. 4169-4174, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00344
  • Delaney, S., & Schultz, M. (2022). Honouring the Ethos of Co-design methodology in Contemporary Socio-scientific Teaching Research (Version 1). Deakin University. https://hdl.handle.net/10779/DRO/DU:21132343.v1
  • Delaney, S. and Schultz, M. (2021). Investigating sustainable chemistry – a control-of-variable guided inquiry practical activity making sustainable concrete, Lab-Talk. vol. 65, no. 4. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.560343677084166
  • Schultz, M., Lai, J., Ferguson, J.F. and Delaney, S. (2021). Topics Amenable to a Systems Thinking Approach: Secondary and Tertiary Perspectives, Journal of Chemical Education, vol. 98, no. 10, pp. 3100-3109, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00203
  • Delaney, S., Ferguson, J.F. and Schultz, M. (2021). Exploring opportunities to incorporate systems thinking into secondary and tertiary chemistry education through practitioner perspectives, International Journal of Science Education, pp. 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2021.1980631
  • Delaney, S. and Schultz, M. (2020). Chemistry activities addressing global challenges – hands-on practical activities focussed on sustainability, Lab-Talk, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 43-49. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/aeipt.229960
  • Eaton, A. C., Delaney, S., and Schultz, M. (2019). Situating Sustainable Development within Secondary Chemistry Education via Systems Thinking: A Depth Study Approach. Journal of Chemical Education, vol 96, pp. 2968-2974. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00266