Spanning two days, this virtual event, by way of a keynote session, oral presentations and workshops, provided a space to discuss and share latest practices in sustainability. Entitled Front, Centre and Now: Sustainability as a Core Purpose of Higher Education, the event provided the opportunity for students, staff and other colleagues to share their innovation, research, and other activity about sustainability and climate change among a network of peers. What should our sector be doing? How can it be doing more? With time running out, how do we bring about change to ensure sustainability is ‘front and centre’ in the mission of higher education?
Date: 29-30 March 2022
Location: Virtual
Who: HE lecturers, programme leaders and senior leaders
Symposium aims
The aims of this symposium were to: provide an open and supportive environment within which to share and discuss contemporary practice and initiatives in sustainable education; provide evidence-informed examples and ideas for university staff and students to overcome the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals and addressing sustainability within in higher education.
Who should attend?
This symposium is aimed at HE lecturers, programme leaders and senior leaders who wish to learn about the latest sustainability innovations and showcase their own initiatives.
Programme and abstracts
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Sustainability symposium session abstracts
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Sustainability symposium programme day one - 29 March 2022
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Sustainability symposium programme day two - 30 March 2022
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Keynote Speaker
Panel conversation
Why the QAA-Advance HE ESD Guidance Matters to Students
Joining Jim and Simon will be:
- Chairs: Patrick Baughan, Advance HE; Jason Leman, Advance HE and; Kim Ansell, Advance HE.
- Vanique Kruger, Elected Sustainability Officer, The Students’ Union at UWE, Education Undergraduate.
- Megan Robinson, Student intern leading on the SDG curriculum mapping at Southampton University, Environmental Science Undergraduate.
- Evan Botwood, President, The Students’ Union at UWE, Philosophy graduate.
This session will explore student expectations and demand for the QAA-Advance HE Education for Sustainable Development guidance to inform and help structure university formal and informal curricula. Simon and Jim will briefly introduce the ESD guidance, its aims and ambitions before Megan, Vanique and Evan provide their perspectives on current and future students’ expectations and demand for ESD in every discipline and how the ESD guidance can facilitate institutions meeting this demand. facilitate this. The panel will discuss the issues raised and respond to questions posed by the audience.
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