Sustainability and environmental responsibility is increasingly growing in importance.
Solving the environmental problems of the planet will one day become the
responsibility of future scientists. For this reason, and with the introduction of new
chemical legislation (REACH) driving change it is essential that current students are
given a broad introduction to sustainability and environmental responsibility in order to equip them as graduates for future practice in the chemical sciences. At the University of Bradford the aim is to teach sustainability and environmental responsibility by
embedding it throughout the entire chemistry curriculum rather than teaching it in
standalone lectures. Once this has been established within chemistry it is expected that this will potentially provide a template for other areas of laboratory science within the
university.
In order to achieve the aim of this project, students, staff and potential employers tookpart in surveys with a view to inform curriculum development. Examples of best
practice were sought and used as guidance for the development of directed learning
activities for use as post lab questions and utilisation of the twelve principles of green chemistry.
Green chemistry metrics were applied to undergraduate experiments to test how well they would work in terms of ease of use, applicability and judging ¿greenness¿. It was
found that these were not very effective for use within an undergraduate laboratory due to applicability and judging ¿greenness¿, however this work highlighted other areas for
improvement. As a result of this work an environmental assessment metric system was
developed for use within an undergraduate setting. / Ecoversity at the University of Bradford
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/5345 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Ridley, Amy N. |
| Contributors | Lucas, Beverley J., Munshi, Tasnim, Scowen, Ian J. |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Department of Chemical and Forensic Science |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, MPhil |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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