Dear Chemistry Education Division member,
By now we must all be into the teaching year. I hope it's going well for you!
We have a lot of news this month from local and international conferences to special journal issues. If you work in and/or supervise student in Chemistry Education research, please consider contributing your experiences to the ACDS-funded project "Investigating landscape and developing educational resources".
Kind regards
Siobhán (on behalf of the Chemistry Education Division committee)
Siobhan.Wills@murdoch.edu.au
Community Projects
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Australian DBER: Investigating landscape and developing educational resources.
You are invited to participate in this survey to help us identify the educational needs and challenges faced by DBER (Discipline-Based Education Research) students in Australia and guide the development of tailored resources to support them. This survey is specifically for academics working in or supervising students in Chemistry Education Research (CER).
This project is funded by the Australian Council of the Deans of Science Inc via a T&L Grant awarded in 2024 (https://www.acds.edu.au/teaching-learning/teaching-and-learning-grants/) . Data collection and analysis is approved by the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (#45958).
Please complete the survey. Survey link: https://monash.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9tVC42ofGxtTSrs
Conferences and Meetings
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CLEAR25
Where: Online
When: May 8th
Registration: Free! Closes May 5th - https://clearsymposium.weebly.com/registersubmissions.html
Poster submissions: Closes March 28th -
https://clearsymposium.weebly.com/registersubmissions.html
The CLEAR Symposium is just around the corner!
What is CLEAR? CLEAR is a global virtual symposium connecting chemistry educators worldwide with the mission of improving the chemistry teaching laboratory for future generations through research. This symposium is also endorsed by the Canadian Chemistry Education Division, the American Chemical Society's Chemistry Education division, and other chemistry education divisions in Germany, UK, the larger Europe, and Australia.
This is a great opportunity to showcase your latest research, assessment, or evaluation in the chemistry laboratory and connect with peers. Posters will be presented electronically in the hour before the conference and/or the hour after, depending on the presenter's preference based on time zone.
You can submit a poster on your research related to labs at: https://clearsymposium.weebly.com/registersubmissions.html
If you have any questions, please email clearsymposium@gmail.com (mailto:clearsymposium@gmail.com) .
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Pacifichem 2025 - Symposium on Promoting Diversity and Multiculturalism in Chemistry Education – Call for abstracts
When: Closes April 2, 2025 (via https://pacifichem.org/scientific-program/abstract-submission)
This symposium invites chemistry instructors at all levels to discuss their experiences with chemistry education for students with diverse and multicultural backgrounds. This effort seeks to examine effective teaching strategies to create an inclusive and culturally respectful classroom environment. The student body is in flux and its demographic profile continually changes with time, and also international research and industrial collaboration have only increased in turn with globalization. Therefore, diversity and multiculturalism - through the lenses of ability, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, economic, cultural, and beyond – can be promoted in chemistry education. To improve students' learning experiences and likelihood of success, chemistry educators should refine their strategies, methods, and materials based on new information. This symposium seeks to further explore these ideas.
If you have any questions about the symposium, please contact the co-organizers; Akiko Nakamura smileychemist@gmail.com (mailto:smileychemist@gmail.com) , Alexandra Yeung alexandra.yeung@curtin.edu.au (mailto:alexandra.yeung@curtin.edu.au) , or Izumi Imai izuimai@c.sci.toho-u.ac.jp (mailto:izuimai@c.sci.toho-u.ac.jp)
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RACI CED Symposium 2025
When: 26-27 June 2025
Where: Monash University, Parkville campus
Conference Website: RACI CED Symposium 2026
Abstract submission closes: Friday 16 May 2025
Student and teacher (primary/secondary) Bursary Applications close: Friday 16 May 2025
Registration closes: Friday 6 June 2025
The 2025 symposium has an overarching theme: Connecting education research and practice.
This broad theme enables the community to identify the more specific topics that the meeting will address. Therefore, there will not be formal themes for the meeting.
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ASERA56 - Australasian Science Education Research Association conference
Where: Deakin Downtown, Dockland, Melbourne
When: July 1-4, 2025
Conference website: https://www.asera.org.au/2025-conference/
ASERA is one of the oldest and most highly regarded science education research associations in the world. They are proud to bring together science education researchers and educators from Australia, New Zealand, the region and the world to share ideas that change the nature and practices of science education through their annual conference.
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IUPAC 2025 - Chemistry for a sustainable future
Where: Kuala Lumper, Malaysia
When: 12-16 July, 2025
Conference website: https://iupac2025.org
Abstracts close: 30th March, 2025
IUPAC 2025 comprises two major IUPAC meetings, namely the 53rd IUPAC General Assembly (53GA) and the 50th World Chemistry Congress (50WCC), and together with other side-events, will attract more than 3,000 delegates from all over the globe. This marks the first time that these global chemistry extravaganzas are taking place in an ASEAN country, and this has created immense enthusiasm and excitement among chemists from this part of the world.
The theme of IUPAC 2025, "Chemistry for Sustainable Future", underscores our commitment to exploring chemistry's pivotal role in addressing global sustainability challenges. In addition to the scientific sessions on various disciplines in chemistry, IUPAC 2025 also includes a special cluster of symposia on "Chemistry and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)" focusing on chemistry providing solutions and remedies to SDGs.
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ISSOTL25 - Exploring the Changing Landscapes of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Where: University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand
When: 3-6 November, 2025
Conference website: https://issotl.com/issotl25
Call for proposals: Closes March 15th
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury welcomes you to submit a proposal for ISSOTL25 to be held in Ōtautahi Christchurch on the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
The theme, Exploring the Changing Landscapes of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, reflects the world-renowned landscapes of their South Island home. It also symbolises the upheavals, steady change, and standing landmarks that we encounter in our teaching and learning practices in tertiary education. As ISSOTL delegates come together to share their scholarship, works in progress, and innovative pedagogies, the conference theme provides a guiding framework and powerful metaphor for how we collectively engage with our own stories and accomplishments as scholars of our teaching and learning practice.
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BCCE 2026 - Call for Programs
Where: University of Wisconsin–Madison
When: July 26-30, 2026
Call for programs: Open August 1, 2025
Conference website: https://conferences.union.wisc.edu/bcce2026
Special Journal issues
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International Journal of Science Education
Special issue: Reexamining the utility and role of pedagogical content knowledge in the context of 21st century science education
Journal website: HERE
Abstract deadline: March 31, 2025
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Clarifications of fundamental concepts related to PCK from a philosophical perspective.
* Critical discussions on what constitutes PCK and what PCK should encompass in the contemporary science education context.
* Affordances and critiques of the Refined Consensus Model of PCK (Carlson et al., 2019) in studying the expertise of science teachers crucial for 21st-century science education.
* Examination of the role of PCK in studies of science teacher expertise required for teaching non-standard science content/issues (e.g., integrated STEM education, climate change, sustainability).
* Examination of the role of PCK in studies related to the implementation of new teaching approaches (e.g., transdisciplinary approaches, science-as-practice approaches).
* Analysis of the placement of PCK in policy documents concerning contemporary science education.
Contributions are encouraged from all levels of science education and from different countries and contexts that align with the focus of this SI.
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Siobhan Wills
Lecturer
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