Led by Dr Jennifer O'Brien PFHEA, Academic Lead for Sustainability Teaching and Learning and Honorary ITL Fellow

Monday 14th November 2022, 14:00-15:00, online 

What should an inclusive, empowering, sustainability education look like? As a student, would you like your course units to include more sustainability learning*? Are you experiencing great sustainability teaching that we should roll out to more students? Do you have frustrations about our sustainability teaching and learning? Do you have enough ‘green*’ support in your broader University experience? As teaching colleagues, do you have excellent practice that you would like to share? Would you welcome any support for your (broadly speaking) teaching, or personal development? How can we underpin our Teaching and Learning strategy with sustainability? These are just a few of many questions these sessions could address….

Led by Jen O’Brien, the University’s Academic Lead for Sustainability Teaching and Learning, these online drop-in Sustainability Teaching and Learning Listening sessions are deliberately open and flexible. They designed for you to share your thoughts. There is no formal presentation, depending upon numbers we might generate breakout groups or jus discuss together, maybe even one-to-one. You can stay for the hour, or pop in for five minutes. The discussion will underpin our new Sustainability Teaching and Learning strategy. An anonymised summary of the discussion and Jen’s action points developed from it will be shared through ITL. If these sessions don’t fit in with your diary and you’d like to chat, feel free email Jen to arrange another time (Jennifer.obrien@manchester.ac.uk)

*At UoM we use sustainability terms interchangeably and unapologetically (there is a discussion there alone!). ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Green’ are used here as short hand for teaching and learning around environment, sustainable development, the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change education, and so forth etc, etc, etc. If you are interested in this discussion, however defined, you are most welcome.

This panel was chaired by Dr Julian Skyrme, FRSA (Director of Social Responsibility). The panel included Dr Jennifer O'Brien, PFHEA (Academic Lead for Sustainability Teaching and Learning and Honorary ITL Fellow), Professor Senathirajah Ariyaratnam, SFHEA (Lead for Social Responsibility in Dentistry and National Teaching Fellow), Dr Philip Drake FHEA (Director of the Justice Hub and Director of Social Responsibility for Law), Professor Claire McGourlay PFHEA (Director Manchester Innocence Project and National Teaching Fellow)

Thursday 19th May, 2022 - 14:00 - 15:00 

This panel session discussed what Service Learning is and the multiple benefits it offers to learners and societies. The panel shared their experience of projects that have been making a positive impact to teaching and learning, research and social responsibility for over 10 years and teased out their broader learning experiences of Service Learning that could be adopted and adapted by any discipline across the University.

A recording of the session is available to view on the Video Portal. Please remember to log in via the button on the top right to be able to view the video.

Led by Kevin Harding, Lecturer in Fashion Technology, and Charlene Gallery - Reader in Digital Fashion Business & Technology

Wednesday 8th November 2023, 14:15-15:45, on campus 

With the importance of sustainability in today's world, it is essential to empower the next generation of graduates to become employable and sustainable change-makers. In this workshop, we aim to share insights and work collaboratively on integrating ESD principles into academic units. 

Participants are encouraged to bring an existing unit, or one currently in development, to be worked on during the workshop. Our goal is to provide a collaborative and practical experience that enables academic staff to create or modify units that promote employability and sustainable change-making.

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop, you will:

• Gain a working understanding of ESD and its core competencies. 
• Be introduced to learning design strategies that utilise co-creation, transformative pedagogy, active learning and authentic assessment. 
• Have an opportunity to work on an existing unit or one currently in development.