Resources

Sustainability can be a rewarding but destabilising topic. You can support students and their learning by choosing pedagogic approaches to suit both the material, and your intended outcomes. Eden Centre departmental advisers are available to discuss possible approaches and activities.

Education for Sustainability Student Internships

The Education for Sustainability Internships Programme is designed to engage both undergraduate and postgraduate students as research interns, partnering with academic staff to embed sustainability into their courses. The programme focuses on integrating sustainability into the curriculum, supporting curriculum enhancement, and developing students’ research skills. Selected students will collaborate with staff to identify sustainability-related frameworks and propose curriculum changes. Academics are encouraged to apply, outlining curriculum redesign plans in partnership with students. This initiative builds on the success of previous research collaboration schemes and aligns with LSE's commitment to education for sustainability, stemming from the LSE 2030 strategy, which promotes global impact education, and the LSE Sustainability Strategic Plan.

Learn more about the initiative here

The Eden Catalyst Fund

The Eden Catalyst Fund supports evidence-based education enhancement and innovation projects related to various themes, including Education for Sustainability, with grants of up to £10,000. The fund backs initiatives that contribute to the development and delivery of education enhancement activities at the School.

Read more here.

Videos

Take a look at these videos below on the topic of sustainability. Further down this page, you can find information on further networks and helpful resources.

Content adapted from University of Plymouth with thanks.

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Dr. Jillian Terry (Assistant Professorial Lecturer and Co-Director of LSE100) discusses the embedding of sustainability in LSE100, LSE's flagship interdisciplinary course taken by all first-year undergraduates. Watch the video

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Dr Abby Innes from the European Institute tells us how embedding sustainability in her courses has led to improved learning outcomes and wellbeing benefits. Watch the video.

Climate crisis video - Nov22 - thumbnail

@MockCOP26 and the University and College Union - UCU have produced a short film highlighting the impacts of the climate crisis on students, pupils, and the education workforce. The film raises awareness to the parallels of how the climate crisis is affecting those in the Global South and the Global North, with case studies from India and England. Watch the video.

Some pedagogic approaches and tools

  • Critical reflection Reflexive accounts, learning journals, discussion groups

  • Systemic thinking and analysis Real-world case studies and critical incidents, project-based learning, stimulus activities, campus as a learning resource

  • Participatory learning Group or peer learning, developing dialogue, experiential learning, action research/learning to act, and developing case studies with local community groups and business

  • Collaborative learning Guest speakers, work-based learning, interdisciplinary/ multidisciplinary working

  • Thinking creatively for future scenarios Using role play, real-world inquiry, futures visioning, problem-based learning

AdvanceHE: resources to support your sustainable transformation strategy

The HE sector has a unique role and responsibility in protecting the planet and delivering on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This requires research that makes progress against the SDGs and graduates with the core sustainability competencies required to address financial, environmental and social sustainability. However, 1.7% of Global World Product (GWP) is spent in Higher Education, so the sector also has to take approaches to their people, practices and places that are consistent with the goals. 

Advance HE in collaboration with Times Higher Consultancy have developed a range of products for institutions and governments to support the higher education sector to promote and utilise the SDGs to drive institutional change across research and culture, curricula and civic responsibility.

Find out more on their website.

SOS-UK:helping students and educators promote environmental justice

SOS-UK is a student-led education charity focusing on sustainability that:

  • delivers programmes and campaigns that enable students and society to act on sustainability;
  • offers a range of learning opportunities and events to support sustainability action across the education sector and beyond;
  • carries out specialist research into sustainability and social responsibility of the education sector in the UK and internationally;
  • offers a range of services and packages to help drive sustainability through higher education institutions.

Green Careers Hub

The Green Careers Hub is brand-new government backed resource to give insight into the green jobs of the future launched by Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).

Learn more here.

Further resources for educators