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Create Sustain Ability
14 May 2010
ESD and the Academy
Heather Luna
Project Coordinator
Higher Education Academy
ESD Project
Outline
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Context and challenge
Background to HEA ESD Project
Current and future programme
HEFCE’S sustainable development
ambition
‘Our vision is that within the next ten
years, the higher education sector
will be recognised as a major
contributor to society’s efforts to
achieve sustainability – through the skills
and knowledge that its graduates learn...,
its research and exchange of knowledge...,
community and public policy engagement,
and through its own strategies and operations.’
- Sustainable Development in Higher Education
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09
HEFCE
• We ask the Academy to consider how it can support the
implementation of our Sustainable Development Strategy
and Action Plan (HEFCE 2009/03).
• We would like the Academy to recognise Education for
Sustainable Development (ESD) as a cross cutting priority
and to continue to proactively encourage and support ESD
through the ESD Project group and Subject Centre
networks.
• We welcome the Academy’s intention to set up a small
group to advise on ESD activities and ask that the Academy
works with sector bodies, such as the Environmental
Association for Universities and Colleges, to support ESD.
• We would like the Academy to continue with the
development and publication of a sustainability policy for
its own operations.
Scottish Funding Council
Sustainable development – We look to
the Academy to work with us in
delivering our sustainable development
strategy for Scotland’s HEIs, and to
support institutions in the development
of appropriate knowledge, skills and
attributes among learners.
HEFCW
We invite you to facilitate institutions in their
curriculum design to take account of emerging
and ongoing priorities, as appropriate.
In this context we would like you to continue to
facilitate the sector in delivering the priority and
supplementary actions set out in the Welsh
Assembly Government’s document: Education for
Sustainable Development and Global
Citizenship (ESDGC) - a Strategy for Action, as
identified in the 2008/09 grant letter.
This includes exploring the potential for extending
the Academy’s student volunteering awards to
Wales, as part of the global citizenship agenda.
A growing movement...
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UN Decade for ESD (2005-15)
DIUS Sustainable Development Action Plan
HEFCE’s Strategic Review of SD in HE and SD Action Plan (2009)
HEFCE’s Carbon Reduction Target and Strategy for HE (2010)
HEFCW Corporate Strategy and Plan
HE Academy ESD Project - recognised as a priority
Sustainability CETLs and a growing number of leader HEIs
People and Planet ‘Green League’
Future Leaders Survey
Green Gown Awards
Rise of Regional Centres of Expertise
Universities UK SD Group and Statement of Intent
Academy/SFC review of sustainability in the Scottish HEI sector
ESDGC curriculum audit of HEIs in Wales
Some challenges for the ‘sustainable
university’, how to...
• bring together and reconcile agendas coherently: eg.employment,
internationalisation, enterprise and sustainability
• spearhead sustainable development regionally with stakeholders, and
support healthy and sustainable economies and communities
• model sustainability on campus, procurement, food and resource use
etc
• anticipate social, economic and ecological change, particularly related
to climate change
• ensure ‘sustainability literacy’ of staff and students
• get all this to be a central part of the HEI’s culture
HE Academy Education for
Sustainable Development (ESD)
Project
Purpose: ‘to help institutions and subject
communities develop curricula and pedagogy
that will give students the skills and
knowledge to live and work sustainably.’
The Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD) Project
• Began early 2005 with support of Forum for the
Future, as special theme within Academy’s
programme
• First stage: audit of subject communities carried out
by 18 of the 24 Subject Centres
• Culminated in the “Dawe Report”, available from
website: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/esd
HE Academy ESD
(Project)
Aims
1 ‘To research and support the development of ESD in
the HE sector, particularly within subject communities’.
2 ‘To build capacity internally and amongst individuals,
subject communities and institutions to embed ESD in
curricula and pedagogy’.
3 ‘To assist the coordination and dissemination of
policy, research and practice relating to ESD in
institutions, the HEA and the wider field’.
Work in 2009-10
• Publish Earthscan book on contribution of disciplines to ESD
(in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Futures)
SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
Perspectives and practice
across higher education
Stimulating new thinking
Work in 2009-10
• Internal briefing on ESD for Academy and briefing event
• Two single institutional strategy and change events in
Scotland (QMU and Edinburgh)
• Workshop at HE Academy conference in 2010
• Green Gown Awards judging
• ESDGC HE Network in Wales (coordination of meetings)
Sustainability in Higher Education Developers
(SHED) Networks
‘SHED-Share’
Run by Academy ESD in collaboration with the Environmental
Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC)
SHED-Share: information, announcements, queries, with
the potential to develop discussions, joint proposals etc
Communication
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Bi-monthly e-Newsletter
Weekly e-Bulletin
Academy ESD website
Sustainability in HE Developers network
(SHED)
The Academy ESD Website
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/esd
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Our strategy
Publications
Latest news on ESD in the HE sector
Information on all of our projects
Regional networking lists for the South West, Scotland and
Wales
ESD events, past (including presentations) and future
Links to disciplinary-specific ESD resources via Subject Centres
Bi-monthly e-Newsletter (sign up on the site)
Links to relevant policy documents/web pages and partners
Plan of Work 2010-2011 (highlights)
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Student engagement research
Student engagement event
Produce a Learning and Teaching Framework for ESD
Two single institutional strategy and change events in Scotland
Coordination of Sustainability in Higher Education Developers
(SHED ) network (with EAUC)
• Fund seven small curriculum development grants around
interdisciplinarity
• Subject Centre interdisciplinary research grants
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Interdisciplinarity Grants
Real-World Learning for Sustainable Environmental Management
Dr Ros Taylor, Kingston University
Sustainability: Past, Present and Future
Ingrid Mainland, UHI Millennium Institute
Problem-based Learning in Virtual Interactive Educational Worlds for
Sustainable Development (PREVIEW-Sustain)
Simon Bignell, University of Derby
Making the Transition to Interdisciplinarity: Effective strategies for early student
support
Dr Zoe Robinson, Keele University
ESD in the Professional Curriculum
Prof Colin T. Reid, University of Dundee
Interdisciplinary Learning in ESD at Taught Postgraduate Level: Researchinformed capacity building for curriculum development
Prof Lindsey McEwan
Interdisciplinarity, Design Thinking & Sustainable Development: Strategies for
UK higher education
Simon O'Rafferty, UWIC
Academy ESD management
• David Sadler has overall responsibility
• Planning Group meetings – open to all Subject
Centre representatives
• Advisory Group (chaired by Prof Steve Martin. Has
met twice to date)
HEA ESD Staff
(all part time)
‘Field’ team
• Dr Simon Smith, PRS, Project Manager
• Project Coordinator: Heather Luna
• Prof Stephen Sterling, U of Plymouth, Senior Advisor
Academy York team
• Laila Burton (York Project Co-ordinator)
• Jonathan Payens (York Project Officer)
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• Alastair Robertson (Head of Policy and Partnerships,
Scotland)
Key sites
• Higher Education Academy ESD Project
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/esd
• HEFCE’s online resource for sustainable development in HE
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/susdevresources/
• Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC)
http://www.eauc.org.uk
• Student Force for Sustainability www.studentforce.org.uk/
• Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) at UP
www.csf.plymouth.ac.uk