General
- HEPS Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability
The University of Brighton is a partner in the Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (HEPS). Forum for the Future worked with 18 universities and colleges to find ways to deliver education in a way that boosts sustainable development. Universities can make a significant contribution towards sustainable development through research, improving the curriculum and environmental action such as developing green buildings. The final report of HEPS is an account of innovative solutions for implementing sustainability in higher education. - HEPS Learning and skills for sustainable development: developing a sustainability literate society
Guidance on integrating sustainability literacy within the HE curriculum - The Sustainable Development Research Network - run by the Policy Studies Institute - offers a round up of SD related activities and reports etc.
- The SDR-Network Mailing is a moderated information resource and dissemination service for SDR-Network members. You can make use of this service by posting details (in a word document or text of an email) of forthcoming events, funding opportunities, job vacancies, research outputs, policy developments, consultations, etc to Kate McGeevor (k.mcgeevor@psi.org.uk). To join or leave this list, or change your details, please follow the links from http://www.sd-research.org.uk/about/join.php.
- "Greener by Degrees:Exploring Sustainability through Higher Education Curricula" by Carolyn Roberts & Jane Roberts, which covers a range of disciplines. Published by the Centre for Active Learning at the University of Gloucestershire, this publication (available online) explores different aspects of sustainability in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
- Dawe, G, Jucker, R, Martin, S (2005) Sustainable Development in Higher Education: Current
Practice and Future Developments, A report for the Higher Education Academy.
- Kagawa, K., Selby, D., and Trier, C., (2006) Exploring Student perceptions of interactive pedagogies in education for sustainable development, Planet No.15 p 53-56
- Magnier, K., (2006) Sustainability as a troublesome concept in the GEES disciplines, Planet No 17, p 32-33
- Selby, D. (2006 The Catalyst that is sustainability: bringing permeability to disciplinary boundaries, Planet No.17 p 57 – 59
- UK Government, (2005) Securing the Future, The Stationery Office
- Mapping ESD to the curriculum - presentation from the SDRG Forum 2007 by Jenny Elliott
- Universities and Sustainable Development: the necessity for barriers to change.
This paper, in the journal Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, reviews recent developments in England in relation to higher education and sustainable development, raises questions about the role that universities in a liberal democracy might have in relation to this, argues that sustainable development is an important focus for universities, but that their freedom to explore this idea in ways that make contextual sense to them and their stakeholders needs to be safeguarded against too instrumentalist and prescriptive a view which would actually serve only to inhibit the possibilities for sustainable development, and concludes that universities need to establish effective barriers if their staff and students are to have their necessary freedom to research, teach and learn protected.
Scott WAH & Gough SR (2007) Universities and Sustainable Development: the necessity for barriers to change; Perspectives: Policy & Practice in Higher Education; 11(4) 109–118
- Higher Education Academy Education for Sustainable Development project. Includes a quarterly newsletter.
- Learning and skills for sustainable development. This guidance, produced by Forum for the Future and the Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (HEPS), explores how to integrate sustainability literacy into the provision of all higher education courses and provides a toolkit.
Of particular interest are pp. 23-27 which list different approaches to integrating sustainable development into the curriculum that have. been tried in UK universities (although most of the approaches listed are in fact sustainable development-oriented programmes, rather than examples of SD being integrated into other programmes).
Forum for the Future (2005) Learning and skills for sustainable development: developing a sustainability literate society. [Accessed 2008 from http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/node/432.]
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University Leaders for a Sustainable Future aims to support sustainability as a critical focus of teaching, research, operations and outreach at colleges and universities worldwide through publications, research, and assessment.
agriculture
anthropology
architecture
- DEMI is a web-resource based at Goldsmiths College bringing together wide ranging information on design for sustainability.
- Design & Sustainability is a report by Forum for the Future, Design Council, the RSA and the Design Business Association. The Government is also bringing together expertise through a new Sustainable Design Forum to champion eco-design, and promote best practice tools and approaches which can be adopted by designers.
area studies
art
- Access to Art. This CUPP course involves University of Brighton art students as art advocates for artists with learning disabilities, allowing the artists to develop their artistic skills, access equipment and integrate into the mainstream arts course at Sussex Downs College. The FE students spend the first term exploring fine art, textiles and print making. They then specialise in the second term, building their portfolio of work. The University students gain important skills in working with others and developing their professional practice. Access to Art is already a national award winner (Higher Education Active Community Fund Student Volunteering Awards) and was assessed as “a truly pioneering project and one that should be picked up far and wide”.
biology
- Bioscience Subject Centre resources
- How to make your teaching more sustainable. The Centre for Bioscience has produced a series of short information sheets to support bioscience (and other) staff in making their teaching practices more sustainable. They include hints and tips on practical steps to improving sustainability in lectures, practical sessions, tutorials, lectures, on fieldtrips and also your office or working area. The sheets also contain some ideas on introducing sustainability issues to students and into teaching.
business
computer science
cupp
- Presentation on the Community University Partnership Programme from the SDRG Forum 2007
- Community University Partnership Programme at the University of Brighton
- Access to Art. This CUPP course involves University of Brighton art students as art advocates for artists with learning disabilities, allowing the artists to develop their artistic skills, access equipment and integrate into the mainstream arts course at Sussex Downs College. The FE students spend the first term exploring fine art, textiles and print making. They then specialise in the second term, building their portfolio of work. The University students gain important skills in working with others and developing their professional practice. Access to Art is already a national award winner (Higher Education Active Community Fund Student Volunteering Awards) and was assessed as “a truly pioneering project and one that should be picked up far and wide”.
design
- Toolbox for Sustainable Design Education from Loughborough University
- DEMI is a web-resource based at Goldsmiths College bringing together wide ranging information on design for sustainability.
- Design & Sustainability is a report by Forum for the Future, Design Council, the RSA and the Design Business Association. The Government is also bringing together expertise through a new Sustainable Design Forum to champion eco-design, and promote best practice tools and approaches which can be adopted by designers.
economics
education
engineering
environment
geography
information science
languages
law
linguistics
modules
pharmacy
- Bioscience Subject Centre resources
- How to make your teaching more sustainable. The Centre for Bioscience has produced a series of short information sheets to support bioscience (and other) staff in making their teaching practices more sustainable. They include hints and tips on practical steps to improving sustainability in lectures, practical sessions, tutorials, lectures, on fieldtrips and also your office or working area. The sheets also contain some ideas on introducing sustainability issues to students and into teaching.
politics
rural development
schools
sociology
sport
tourism