Our Work

Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF)

Description

This CETL aimed to transform the University of Plymouth from an institution characterised by significant areas of excellence in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to an institution modelling university-wide excellence and, hence, able to make a major contribution to ESD regionally, nationally and internationally.

Contact: Anka Djordjevic, Centre Manager

Email: csf@plymouth.ac.uk 

Telephone: 01752 238 890

CSF worked to provide students across the university and its network of partner colleges with opportunities to engage critically with sustainability agendas and their social, ethical, professional and personal implications. The impact on student learning was reinforced through opportunities for action research projects into the greening of the campus and into community and regional sustainability initiatives.

Current Projects:

CSF focused its activities on:

• Curriculum: enhancing and embedding sustainability related learning and teaching across all faculties.
• Campus: promoting best environmental practice in university buildings and across the university landscape. 
• Community: advancing sustainability initiatives in the South West in active partnership with local communities, regional institutions and other. organisations (schools, businesses, commercial and non-governmental organisations).
• Culture: creating positive spaces for discussion and exchange towards a whole institution culture of sustainability.

These ‘core areas’ were addressed through four key cross-cutting ‘activity lines’ which were respectively, ‘Research’, ‘Change and Development’, ‘Evaluation and Monitoring’, and ‘Promotion and Dissemination’.
What was being offered to the wider teaching/subject community:

• A dedicated and fully equipped resource centre/teaching room (the Sustainability Commons) to seat around 50 at the Centre. 
• CSF website and newsletters.
• Publications. 
• Partnerships on ESD initiatives and research in south-west, nationally and internationally. 
• Regional and national seminars and conferences. 
• Research team and research papers (in press) on aspects of ESD in HE. 
• Expertise on ESD theory and practise and change strategies in HE in relation to curriculum, campus and community.
  

The University of Plymouth is committed to contributing to national and international efforts to embed sustainability in Higher Education. In responding to the global ecological crisis and accompanying economic and social challenges, CSF developed a Sustainability Policy that engages with students and staff and partners. 

 
All Our Futures Conference in Plymouth, 9 - 11 September 2008 

The aim of the conference was to explore, in the context of threat to our planet, how to shape and deliver an education for sustainable futures that brings hope, possibility and transformation. 
 

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