Fensham Medal - For Outstanding Contribution to Chemical Education

In a push to formally recognise those who tirelessly promote chemical education activities the RACI created a new prestigious award for Outstanding Contributions to Chemical Education to be awarded annually from 2010.

The award is named after Professor Fensham who elaborated and popularised the notion of “Science for all” where school science must be designed to prepare all students for the future rather than simply prepare those few whose chosen profession will involve science.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KIERAN LIM

His innovations and insights into chemistry and other disciplines, have been developed into study resources, lesson plans and learning objects that have been disseminated and adopted internationally.

Associate Professor Kieran Lim FRACI CChem has been active at primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education, in the continuing professional development of school teachers, and in the wider community. He has been involved in the teaching of every subdiscipline of chemistry – general chemistry, analytical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry and spectroscopy – and at all university levels. His innovations and insights into the connections between the various chemistry subdisciplines, and between chemistry and other disciplines, have been developed into study resources, lesson plans and learning objects that have been disseminated and adopted internationally.

Professor Lim has fostered interest in chemical science through his involvement in local community groups and schools, and most recently as a contestant in the Australian pilot of ‘I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here!’ He has been active in both the RACI and the Science Teachers’ Association of Victoria (STAV). He is a Director of the Australian Chemistry Enhanced Laboratory Learning (APCELL) project, and a member of the Active Learning in University Science (ALIUS) project. He was on the Advisory Committee for the F-10 Australian Science Curriculum and a co-author of the RACI’s resource book React to chemistry for the 2011 National Science Week.