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Dr. Premnadh M Kurup
BSc, MSc, BEd, MEd, PhD. CChem MRSC (UK), MRACI CChem

Lecturer

Room/Location: 3.16b Education
Ph: 5444 7311
Fx: 5444 7800
Email: p.kurup@latrobe.edu.au

Teaching Areas

• Science education

Research Interests

• Students’ beliefs, understandings and intentions to act regarding environmental issues and socio scientific issues.
• Educational issues of the Greenhouse effect and global warming.
• Scientific literacy in science education.

Recent Publications and Presentations

Research- based

• Kurup, P.M., Hackling, M.W., & Garnett, P.J. (2005). High school students’ beliefs and understandings about the Greenhouse effect, and intentions to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse 2005, Melbourne, November, 2005.
• Kurup, P.M, & Hackling, M.W. (2005). Role of high school students’ beliefs about, understandings of, and intentions to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and greenhouse effect. Paper presented at the Western Australian Science Education Association (WASEA) Poster and Discussion Forum, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Nov. 2005. 
• Kurup, P.M., Hackling, M.W., & Garnett, P.J. (2005). The Greenhouse effect: What are students being taught? What they are learning? Paper under preparation for submission in a Journal in Science Education.
• Kurup, P.M., Hackling, M.W., & Garnett, P.J. (2005). Ideal and actual scenarios of high school students’ beliefs, understanding and intentions to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Paper under preparation for publication in one of the Science Education Journals.
• Kurup, P.M. (2004). Secondary students beliefs about, understanding of, and intentions to act regarding the Greenhouse effect. Paper presented at the Western Australian Science Education Association (WASEA) Poster and Discussion Forum, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Nov. 2004.
• Kurup, P.M., Hackling, M.W., & Garnett, P.J. (2002). Understandings of, beliefs about, and intentions to act regarding the Greenhouse effect. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Chemical Education, Beijing, China, August, 2002. p.64.

Associations

• Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
• Royal Australian Chemical Institute