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University of Chichester
Learning andTeaching Conference 2014
Tuesday 10th June
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Key Note Speaker
Professor Carolyn Roberts
The Knowledge Transfer Network, and Frank Jackson Professor,
Gresham College, London
Email: carolyn.roberts@earth.ox.ac.uk
Carolyn Roberts is an applied environmental scientist with specific interests in sustainability and
resource management. She is currently a senior scientist in the UKTechnology Strategy Board-
funded ‘Knowledge Transfer Network’, and prior to that was Director of the ‘Environmental
Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network’ a similar national network based at the University
of Oxford.Both organisations link businesses with universities,securing technological innovation
to enable more environmentally-sensitive industry.
At the University of Gloucestershire she was Head of the School of Environment,and Director
of the national HEFCE-recognised Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning that
emerged from it – the Centre for Active Learning. Recognised for the quality of her teaching
through the award of a National Teaching Fellowship, and a Senior Fellowship of the Higher
Education Academy, she has also published books and papers on themes including innovation,
disability, employability, active styles of learning, and education for sustainable development.
She chaired the national advisory board for the Higher Education Academy’s Geography, Earth
and Environmental Sciences Subject Centre. Carolyn is currently the Chair of the national
chartering organisation Society for the Environment, and was formerly Chair of the national
professional body, the Institution of Environmental Sciences.
Welcome
‘The UK higher education sector is under increasing pressure to address the challenge of
embedding sustainable development in the curriculum and ensuring graduates are globally
aware and responsible citizens in the 21st century. Employers are demanding sustainability-
literate graduates, students are demanding future-proof skills, and the UK Government’s vision
for a new ‘green economy’ presents both challenges and opportunities for higher education
institutions’ (HEA, 2013).
According to a recent HEA and NUS report* more than 80% of students surveyed believe
sustainable development should be actively promoted and incorporated by UK universities
and that interest in sustainable development remains strong among students throughout their
university careers and with the introduction of increased tuition fees. To coincide with the
University of Chichester’s engagement with the HEA Green Academy programme, the aim of
this year’s Learning andTeaching conference is to highlight best practice in the enhancement and
embedding of education for sustainable development (EDS) within the curricula.

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“Work on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) helps
institutions and subject communities develop curricula and
pedagogy that will give students the skills and knowledge to live
and work sustainably’
[Drayson et al, 2013]
Fieldtrips are an important part of the pedagogy underpinning ESD
on the Tourism Management degree route - here students visit
Selsey to look at destination management issues

9.00am Coffee and Registration
Venue: Cloisters
Venue: Mitre Lecture Theatre
9.30am Welcome and Introduction
9.40am ‘Setting the Context’: Green Academy Programme
DrAndy Clegg, Programme Co-ordintor forTourism Management
and Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative
Writing, University of Chichester
9.50am ‘A Quality Education and Fit for Purpose’: Education for
Sustainability in Context
Professor Carolyn Roberts,The KnowledgeTransfer Network, and
Frank Jackson Professor, Gresham College, London
10.30am Education for Sustainable Development - Industry
Perspectives
Professor Jim Lynch OBE, Distinguished Professor of Life
Sciences, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey;
Chair of Governors, University of Chichester
10.55am Perspectives on Green Impact and ESD
CharlotteTaylor, Community Project Officer, NUS
11.15am Green Going - University of Chichester Perspectives
Kate Cathie, Environment Officer, University of Chichester
11.35am Refreshments: Cloisters
11.55pm Sessions 1, 2 and 3
Venues:
Strand 1 - Mitre Lecture Theatre
Strand 2 - LO6
1.15pm Lunch
Venue: Cloisters
Programme Outline
Morning Schedule

1.55pm Session 4
Venues:
Strand 1 - Mitre Lecture Theatre
Strand 2 - LO6
2.30pm Establishing a Baseline for ESD Engagement
Dr Hugh Dunkerley
2.40pm ‘Getting Sustainability into Your Degree Programme’:
A Student Handbook
Stefi Barna
3.00pm Session 5: Workshop Cafe
‘Getting Sustainability into Your Degree Programme’
Venues:
Workshop 1 - Cloisters
Workshop 2 - E124
4.00pm Q&A and Summary
4.15pm Learning and Teaching: Going Forward
4.25pm University of Chichester Module of the Year Award
Programme Outline
Afternoon Schedule

Presentations

‘Setting the Context’: Green Academy Programme
DrAndy Clegg, Programme Co-ordintor forTourism Management and
Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Senior Lecturer in English and CreativeWriting
A brief introduction to the conference with reference to the University’s engagement
with the HEA Green Academy Programme, and the resultant inclusion of ESD as a
priority in the University’s new Learning and Teaching Strategy.
Keynote
‘A Quality Education and Fit for Purpose’: Education for Sustainability in
Context
Professor Carolyn Roberts,The KnowledgeTransfer Network, and Frank
Jackson Professor, Gresham College, London
The purpose of education, and particularly Higher Education, has been debated for
millennia.Popular opinion counterposes‘employability’ with high academic achievement,
the discovery of new principles with their application,and the growth of self-awareness
with the accumulation of knowledge. Given the uncertainty and speed of change of the
world with which students must engage after they leave university, the perplexity of
educators is perhaps understandable – in practice they need to embrace all of these
concepts simultaneously.Superimposed onto this complexity,many universities want to
be seen as distinctive in what they can offer to potential students, whilst also chasing
the elusive beast of ‘student satisfaction’.
The talk will invite you to participate in a stroll around the worlds of Education for
Sustainable Development, and active styles of learning, in the company of Alice.
Education for Sustainable Development - Industry Perspectives
Professor Jim Lynch OBE, Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences, Centre for
Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey; Chair of Governors, University
of Chichester
Sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a
certain level indefinitely. It influences all aspects of life, and can be analysed using
Participatory Social Analysis and at the process level by Life Cycle Assessment.
Industry has had a negative influence by carbon emissions generating climate change.
Bioenergy is an ameliorative option but needs to be viewed in the light of global food
security and the competition for land.The transdisciplinary nature of sustainability
means that it needs to be considered across all courses in arts and sciences. In
application it is vital to develop public private partnerships, especially at the regional
level.

Perspectives on Green Impact and ESD
CharlotteTaylor, Community Project Officer, NUS
An overview from the NUS on initiatives designed to support student and staff
engagement in ESD.

Green Going - University of Chichester Perspectives
Kate Cathie, Environment Officer, University of Chichester
An overview of the work currently being undertaken in the University, reflecting
on the successes of the Green Impact Scheme, and projects being undertaken by
students.
Establishing a Baseline for ESD Engagement
Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Senior Lecturer in English and CreativeWriting,
A report on research work being undertaken in the University to establish a baseline
for ESD and how many modules currently incorporate some element of ESD.
‘Getting Sustainability into Your Degree Programme’: A Student
Handbook
Stefi Barna, Lecturer in Global Public Health, University of EastAnglia
The University of East Anglia’s Future Skills Initiative aims to deepen employability
skills and ensure that graduates leave with the skills to become effective future lead-
ers and to help bring about a more just and sustainable world. The Handbook aims
to capture the unique perspectives and approaches inherent in each academic disci-
pline, and to serve as a forum for discussion and debate, via three questions:
• What are the links between your discipline and a more sustainable world?
• What knowledge and skills do your graduates need in order to bring that world
about, as professionals, citizens and leaders?
• How should those knowledge and skills be acquired?
Conceptual frameworks will be shared from Business and Management, English, Media
Studies, History, Maths, Social Work and the health professions.
This presentation will also provide the focus for the afternoon’s workshop cafe where
colleagues will be encouraged to think how they could embed ESD within their own
modules.

Session 1:
Time: 12.00pm to 12.20pm
Strand 1 (MLT): Embedding Critical Perspectives on Sustainable
Development into the Portsmouth Geography
Curriculum
Dr Julia Brown, University of Portsmouth
Strand 2 (LO6): Recycled, Re-seen - How andWhy Found, Recycled and
Appropriated Materials are Used in FineArt
Victoria Brown, University of Chichester
Session 2:
Strand 1 (MLT): PALWeek: Learning Sustainable Development in Design
and Engineering
Dr Nigel Garland and Dr Zulfiqar Khan, University of
Bournemouth
Strand 2 (LO6): Students as Producers of Sustainability
Hugh Dunkerley, University of Chichester
Session 3:
Strand 1 (MLT): Good ManagementTheories for Good Management
Practice: Reflections from Students onTheir Business
School Curricula
Dr Denise Baden, University of Southampton
Strand 2 (LO6): Music and Sustainability
Dr Rod Paton, University of Chichester
Session Programme


Session 4:
Strand 1 (MLT): Embedding Education for Sustainable Development -A
Case Study ofTourism and Events Management
Dr Andy Clegg, University of Chichester
Strand 2 (LO6): Thinking for Global Citizenship
Mary Young, University of Chichester
Session 5: Workshop Cafe
‘Getting Sustainability intoYour Degree Programme’
Faciliator: Stefi Barna, Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Dr Andy Clegg, Dr
Duncan Reavey and Kate Cathie
Venue: Cloisters and E124
Session Programme

Title: Embedding Critical Perspectives on Sustainable Development into the
Portsmouth Geography Curriculum
Contributor(s): Dr Julia Brown, Senior Lecturer in Geography
Institution: Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth
Contact: Julia.brown@port.ac.uk
Sustainable Development is the buzz-word of our generation: “like motherhood and apple
pie, nobody could be against it” (Terborgh,1999), but there is a danger it “has come to mean
everything, and thereby risks ending up meaning nothing” (O’Riordan,1993).While the origins of
sustainable development are worthy, the reality of balancing its three pillars (economic, social and
environmental) is challenging, and the concept is at risk of co-option by big business, its radical
elements lost in institutional ‘green’ box-ticking exercises. Thus embedding a critical perspective
on Sustainable Development is crucial. Exploring the very real challenge of translating Sustainable
Development policy into meaningful change and equity is fundamental to my units. In Sustainable
Environmental Management (Level 5) students are enthused and encouraged to delve and to
evaluate, to recognise that there are a spectrum of views from weak to strong sustainability, that
those at opposite ends of the spectrum have very different ideas about the environment and how
best to manage it. In my Level 6 unit, Environment and Development, students travel to Uganda
and conduct research into the reality of managing natural resources sustainably. Learning is taken
out of the lecture theatre and into the reality of life with all its challenges and paradoxes,producing
graduates capable of independent thinking with a global perspective.
Venue: LO6
Title: Recycled, Re-seen - How andWhy Found, Recycled andAppropriated Materials
are Used in FineArt
Contributor(s): Victoria Brown, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art
Institution: Department of Fine Art, University of Chichester
Contact: v.brown@chi.ac.uk
The precedent of appropriating materials and recycling work has been set by 20th century artists
and is continued by Fine Art students. I will be using photographs of graduate work to discuss the
ways in which found recycled and appropriated materials and objects develop the link between
studio practice and contextual studies/art history.
Session 1

Title: PALWeek: Learning Sustainable Development in Design and Engineering
Contributor(s): Dr Nigel Garland and Dr Zulfiqar A. Khan
Institution: Sustainable Design Research Centre, Bournemouth University
Contact: ngarland@bournemouth.ac.uk / zkhan@bournemouth.ac.uk
Institutional guidance highlights the wider qualitative aspects of sustainability, however these
are largely ignored within engineering education in favour of quantitative methods.To encourage
understanding of these aspects a course was developed as part of induction for BSc Design
Engineering and MEng Engineering students.The one week course has been delivered to mixed
groups of first and second year students since introduction in AY2010-11 and has evolved from
examining “social usefulness” to include “material utilisation” and “future vision”.The one week
assessed programme employs PBL and PAL methodologies to promote student engagement with
the concepts of sustainable development. Each group is issued with a variation of the brief but
with common underlying themes.The key to success has been the avoidance of didactic elements;
students are expected to present their findings at daily presentations before a short micro-seminar
and adaptation re-shapes their objectives. Students are not told who will be presenting for their
group and no notes are allowed,ensuring all members know and understand the work done.Outputs
have shaped how sustainable development is understood within the context of design engineering
from a practical as well as educational perspective and resulted in a number of published works.
Venue: LO6
Title: Students as Producers of Sustainability
Contributor(s): Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing
Institution: Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Chichester
Contact: h.dunkerley@chi.ac.uk
The risk with any teaching is that students become passive receivers of knowledge. How can we
avoid the transmission model of education while engaging students with issues of sustainability?The
last thing we should be doing is preaching at them. In this session I will discuss how I am intending
to use the Student as Producer model to get students to interrogate questions of environmental
sustainability for themselves.
Session 2

Title: Good ManagementTheories for Good Management Practice: Reflections from
Students onTheir Business School Curricula
Contributor(s): Denise Baben, Senior Lecturer in Management
Institution: School of Management, University of Southampton
Contact: dab@soton.ac.uk
We asked our final year undergraduates to reflect on the extent to which business school curricula
promoted or inhibited socially responsible business practices.The consensus was that currently most
models and courses ignored issues relating to sustainability, ethics and responsibility, and judged
business success solely in terms of profit maximisation. Most students believed this was wrong and
suggested ways in which the curricula could be changed. In this session I plan to briefly highlight
the issues, the students’ views and the way in which we are aiming to more effectively embed
sustainability into our business school curriculum. In particular I highlight the importance of the
metrics by which we judge success. For example, the metrics and outcomes used to signify ‘success’
throughout the business curriculum are typically related solely to financial performance, so success
in an entrepreneurship module may be measured by growth, in a strategy module by profit, in an
HR module by performance,in finance by return on investment and so on. Alternative more socially
oriented metrics such as jobs created, employee satisfaction, carbon footprint, product quality etc.
are rarely considered as desirable outcomes in their own right. I end with discussion about how this
can be addressed.
Venue: LO6
Title: Music and Sustainability
Contributor(s): Dr Rod Paton, Senior Lecturer in Music
Institution: Department of Music, University of Chichester
Contact: r.paton@chi.ac.uk
This presentation will present some ideas towards a model of musical pedagogy which provides
musicians with the skills needed within rapidly changing cultural musical paradigms. In this model,
the musician’s work is contextualised within a community based model as distinct from the consumer
based model which has been culturally dominant for so long.As populations age and as we develop
a greater understanding of the benefits of music in health and social care, so the training of
musicians will need to re-focus, away from executive and technological skill and towards creative
self-sufficiency.Reference will be made to current projects in care homes in Dublin,singing for health
in alliance with a local GP practice and in an acute mental health facility all of which inform and
drive modules in community music and the postgraduate ‘Lifemusic’ training programme.
Session 3

Title: Embedding Education for Sustainable Development -A Case Study ofTourism
and Events Management
Contributor(s): Dr Andy Clegg, Programme Co-ordinator Tourism Management
Institution: School of Enterprise, Management and Leadership, University of Chichester
Contact: a.clegg@chi.ac.uk
Sustainability is now regarded as an important skill for those graduates entering tourism and event
related occupations. The aim of this presentation is to demonstrate how ESD has been embedded
within theTourism and Event Management programmes at the University of Chichester. Integrating
industry recognised frameworks for sustainable development, staff have engaged with public and
privatesectororganisationstofacilitateanappliedapproachtothedeliveryofESD,andindoingsohas
addedrealcurrency,credibilityandlegitimacytothelearningexperience.Carefulmoduledesignforthe
delivery of ESD facilitates clear progression between theory and application,and involving destination
management and event professionals in the learning,teaching and assessment process has facilitated
a better understanding of how higher education is equipping Tourism and Event Management
graduates with up-to-date knowledge of the principles and practices of sustainable development.
Venue: LO6
Title: Thinking for Global Citizenship
Contributor(s): Mary Young
Institution: University of Chichester
Contact: m.young@chi.ac.uk
The session would provide a brief overview of a project led by Mary, which was undertaken inWest
Sussex with primary teachers and the LEA Citizenship/PHSETeam in 2010.The resulting materials
have been used widely in primary schoolsWest Sussex and beyond and also with student teachers
at the University.
Using a set of Learning Objectives for KS 1 and 2 related to Citizenship/PHSE/Global Citizenship,
the group looked at how pupils and teachers could effectively engage through topic work with the
concepts of Global Citizenship/Sustainability in a critical way by thinking of key philosophical (as far
as possible)questions to discuss in the classroom.
This idea has been used in many primary schools in order to show how issues such as social justice,
environment and interdependence can be linked to any primary school topic. For instance, in the
topic of ‘Houses and homes’, environmental questions could be:‘Do you think some people throw
too much away? Could I throw less away? How can I make my home environmentally friendly?What
benefits and what problems can new houses bring to a local area?Where would it be sensible and
not sensible to build a house?
Session 4

ATFIELD, R. AND KEMP. P. (2013) Enhancing Education for Sustainable
Development in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing, Tourism,
HEA, York.
CLEGG, A. AND GUTIC, J. (2013) Integrating the ‘VERB’ model into an
undergraduate tourism management degree programme, in ATFIELD, R. AND
KEMP. P. (2013), Enhancing Education for Sustainable Development in Business and
Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing, Tourism, HEA, York.
DRAYSON, R., BONE, E. , AGOMBAR, J. AND KEMP, S. (2013) Student Attitudes
Towards and Skills for Sustainable Development, HEA, York.
UK NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO (2010) Education for Sustainable
Development in the UK in 2010, UNESCO.
UN ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE (2012) Learning for the Future -
Competencies in Education for Sustainable Development, UN, Switzerland.
HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY - Education for Sustainable Development
resources available online at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/education-for-
sustainable-development
Useful Resources
A date for your diary:
Learning andTeaching
Conference June 9th 2015:
Reconceptualising the Student
Experience - Students as
Partners
Conference Organiser:
DrAndy Clegg
Principal Lecturer for Learning and
Teaching, University of Chichester
Email: a.clegg@chi.ac.uk
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Enhancing education for
sustainable development in Business
and Management,Hospitality,Leisure,
Marketing,Tourism
Edited by Richard Atfield and Patsy Kemp March 2013
Enhancing education for sustainable
development in Business and Management,
Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing, Tourism
Chapter 11 Integrating the ‘VERB’ model into an
undergraduate tourism management degree programme
Andrew Clegg and Jorge Gutic, University of Chichester
Edited by Richard Atfield and Patsy Kemp
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Student attitudes towards and
skills for sustainable development
Rachel Drayson, Elizabeth Bone, Jamie Agombar and Simon Kemp
September 2013

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