Seamus Delaney

Seamus is a Senior Lecturer (Science and Technology Education), and Science, Technology, Environmental Education (STEE) Discipline Head in the School of Education, Deakin University, Australia. He is the Socio-Ecological Nexus strand co-leader within Deakin's new Centre for for Regenerating Futures.

Seamus has worked as a classroom teacher, Head of Science, Head of eLearning, teacher educator and researcher in both Australia and Switzerland over his last 15 years. Seamus’ research interests are chemistry education, the incorporation of augmented and virtual reality into teaching and learning, and science education in out-of-school/informal learning contexts. He is currently the President of the Chemistry Education Association (CEA), Victoria and a committee member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Green and Sustainable Chemistry National Division. Seamus leads and collaborates on a number of projects delivering innovative teaching and learning resources and professional learning opportunities for educators both in Australia and overseas. He has led curriculum and research consultancies for governments on chemistry, science and technology curriculum as well as national large-scale assessments. Seamus completed his PhD at the School of Chemistry, Monash University. Seamus is a International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) task group member of ongoing projects focussed on re-positioning chemistry as the sustainability science, and he co-founded Elements of Sustainable Chemistry (https://eschemistry.org), an interdisciplinary group with other Deakin Science researchers.