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​Sustainability

Studying sustainability with Plymouth University

Plymouth University offers award-winning programmes with sustainability elements from a range of disciplines. Select the link below to see the latest programmes listing a sustainability element of teaching and learning:
 

Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) - Curriculum Support

Sustainability Teaching and Learning across the university is supported by the work of the Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF):
 
CSF provides curriculum and pedagogic support and coordinates cross-institutional research related to education for sustainable development (ESD).

View our February 2013 newsletter for Sustainable Education Developers.
 
What CSF offers
 
Resources:
  • Module guidance
  • Interactive teaching activities
  • Teaching guides
  • Briefing papers
 
Training and Events, and Student Experience:
  • Workshops – on ESD and the sustainable university
  • Seminars – Occasional ESD seminars organised through the Teaching and Learning Directorate
  • Student projects – Work based learning projects for students
  • Lectures by invitation
 
We advise on topics such as:
  • Policy and curriculum development
  • ESD resources and their usage
  • ESD pedagogic research
 
And also:
  • Attend and help advise meetings of curriculum and teaching and learning groups within Schools
  • Provide face-to-face training, staff workshops or lectures by arrangement
  • Provide information on further resources as requested
  • Help broker links with other Schools, and with national/international contacts

Background

CSF began in 2005 as one of Plymouth University’s four Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) funded Centres of Excellence for Teaching and Learning (CETLs), with the aim of developing and supporting the profile of sustainability across four ‘C’s: Curriculum, Campus, Community, and Culture.
 
A full programme of work over the five years of CETL funding (2005-10) ensued, contributing to Plymouth gaining recognition as top university in the national People and Planet Green League in 2010, and sustainability being endorsed at Plymouth as one of the university’s key platforms and identifiers.
 
Archived material from the CETL years including reports and evaluations as well CSF’s research and development output is available.

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Please get in touch if you would like to work with us:

Centre for Sustainable Futures
Teaching and Learning Directorate
Kirby Lodge
Plymouth University
01752 588890