As part of Goal 4 of our Strategic Plan – Sustainability and its delivery through the Sustainability Implementation Group and SMP Education Programme, an online booklet has been produced for each school to help colleagues identify how they will include and highlight sustainability in their programmes, where this has not been done already.
The Sustainability School Booklets are available to all staff and students. Professor Simon Kemp and the current sustainability interns are visiting each of the faculties and schools to provide further support and work with colleagues to take the next steps with sustainability in the curriculum. If you would like a meeting or to discuss this further, please contact Simon on [email protected]
What is Goal 4 of the Strategic Plan – Sustainability?
Education is key to the University’s Sustainability Strategic Plan and delivery of Goal 4 of this Plan will ensure that sustainability is embedded in all taught courses at the University by 2025.
Great progress has been made towards Goal 4 of the Strategic Plan. Last year a group of interns, together with Professor Simon Kemp, mapped the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) to each of the undergraduate programmes.
Interestingly, all programmes map to numerous UN SDGs:
University Level – Count of modules Mapped to SDGs
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University level results
- 1582 total compulsory modules were mapped
- Goal 9 ‘industry, innovation and infrastructure was most commonly mapped
- Goal 2 ‘Zero Hunger’ was the least commonly mapped
- The average number of goals mapped to each module was 2.6
Additionally, Professor Simon Kemp is leading a workshop on Embedding the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in the curriculum (online) Wednesday 29 March, 14:00 – 15:00. This will provide colleagues interested in sustainability education, and in particular programme teams working towards embedding the SDGs through Programme Approval and Review (PAR), with a brief overview of the UN SDGs, outline work already undertaken, promote available support and guidance including a new toolkit for PAR and provide examples of how the SDGs have been embedded successfully in Chemical Engineering programmes. Book your place via Staffbook (type Development Goals in the search box).
This work also formed the basis recently for a very engaging Student Co-design panel on this topic, the results of which will be used to inform the next steps of the project and shape its deliverables.
If you have any queries on this work, please feel free to contact the Sustainability Education Project team on [email protected].
Read previous SUSSED posts on Sustainability.
