Panellists Glenn Hurst
Glenn Hurst completed an integrated MChem from Durham University and PhD from Newcastle University in the UK. He was appointed Associate Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of York in 2014, was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2017 and to Associate Professor in 2020 where he works in the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence. His research interests lie within chemistry education, specializing in adopting systems-thinking approaches within all levels of green and sustainable chemistry education. He was recognized by Jisc as one of the top ten social media superstars in higher education in 2017, was a finalist in the Times Higher Education ‘Most Innovative Teacher of the Year’ in 2018, highly commended for ‘Teaching Excellence’ in the Educate North Awards 2019, won the American Chemical Society Committee on Environmental Improvement Award for Incorporation of Sustainability into Chemistry Education in 2019, won the Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Teaching Award 2020, a JoVE Innovation in Instruction Award in 2021 and gained a National Teaching Fellowship in 2021. Peter Mahaffy Peter Mahaffy is a 3M National Teaching Fellow, Professor of Chemistry at the King’s University in Edmonton, Canada, and director of the King’s Centre for Visualization in Science (www.kcvs.ca), which provides digital learning resources used by a half-million students, educators, and the public from over 100 countries each year. His current research and professional work is at the interfaces of chemistry education, systems thinking and sustainability, the uses of interactive technological tools to facilitate the learning of science, and the responsible uses of chemistry. Mahaffy served for six years as chair of the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry’s (IUPAC) Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) and member of the IUPAC Bureau, where he co-facilitated the process to obtain UN designation of 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry and served on the IYC-2011 Management Committee. He was a charter member of the International Council of Science (ICSU) Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science and served on the temporary working group on education and outreach for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. He served on the American Chemical Society (ACS) presidential working group to help professional chemists communicate climate science to the public and is past co-chair of Alberta’s Quality Assurance Agency for universities (Campus Alberta Quality Council).
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