DrStephen Northey
Research Director
Institute for Sustainable Futures
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- Research DirectorInstitute for Sustainable Futures
FUNDED RESEARCH
Current research interests:
- Long-term scenarios for battery related mineral and metal supply chains
- Development of large-scale datasets for benchmarking industry environmental performance (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, water use intensity, etc.)
Broader Areas of Expertise:
- Sustainable development
- Mineral and metal supply chains (particularly copper, steel, gold, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earths, platinum group elements and zinc)
- Life cycle assessment (LCA), especially water and mineral resource use impact assessment methods
- Environmental performance indicators, benchmarking and communication
- Scenario modelling
- Industrial ecology, material flow analysis (MFA)
- Carbon footprint
- Water footprint, water accounting, regional water stress
- Mineral resource availability and depletion
- Mining, mineral processing and metallurgy
- Corporate sustainability reporting
- Long-term scenarios for battery related mineral and metal supply chains
- Development of large-scale datasets for benchmarking industry environmental performance (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, water use intensity, etc.)
Broader Areas of Expertise:
- Sustainable development
- Mineral and metal supply chains (particularly copper, steel, gold, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earths, platinum group elements and zinc)
- Life cycle assessment (LCA), especially water and mineral resource use impact assessment methods
- Environmental performance indicators, benchmarking and communication
- Scenario modelling
- Industrial ecology, material flow analysis (MFA)
- Carbon footprint
- Water footprint, water accounting, regional water stress
- Mineral resource availability and depletion
- Mining, mineral processing and metallurgy
- Corporate sustainability reporting
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTAustralian Research Council16 Jun 2025 - 16 Jun 2030People funded by this grant:
- Barnett M,
- Fabijanic D,
- Giurco D,
- Matthews J,
- Mouzakis K
- GRANTDeakin ARC Training Centre Resource efficient alloys in a circular economy [23194]Australian Research Council1 Aug 2024 - 30 Jul 2029People funded by this grant:
- Giurco D,
- Student 1 S1,
- Northey S,
- STUDENT 2 S2
- GRANTQuadrature Mineral Availability for Renewables PEMMSS [23204]Quadrature Climate Foundation3 Jun 2024 - 2 Jun 2026People funded by this grant:
- Giurco D,
- Dominish E,
- Kowald J,
- Calisa R,
- Northey S
- GRANTAustralia-Japan Foundation Grant - Workshops on Responsible Raw Materials [23201]DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & TRADE4 Mar 2024 - 20 Dec 2024People funded by this grant:
- Dominish E,
- Northey S,
- Nansai K,
- Mclellan B,
- Kishita Y
- GRANTEcologically responsible mining to fuel a green energy transition (20247)Australian Research Council1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Northey S,
- Maron M,
- Bull J,
- McDonald-Madden E,
- Valenta R
- GRANTBattery Materials for a Circular Economy: Advancing Certification and Improving Life-Cycle Impacts for Market Advantage - 18052FUTURE BATTERY INDUSTRIES CRC LIMITED1 Nov 2020 - 1 May 2025People funded by this grant:
- Giurco D,
- Dominish E,
- Jazbec M,
- Northey S,
- Rutovitz J
- GRANTBattery Industries and Sustainable Development: Transforming Metal Supply Chains : 19294University of Technology Sydney1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2023People funded by this grant:
- Northey S
