New+sustainability+research+project.

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This project aims to investigate the ways in which lecturers in different disciplines approach teaching about education for sustainable development in higher education. Working with lecturers from across the various faculties of the university, the project intends to:

1. investigate lecturers’ beliefs about how to incorporate sustainable development in their teaching;

2. explore the ways and extent to which they are able to enact these beliefs through their teaching practices in the context of the UK higher education system;

3. assess the impact of their selected teaching strategies on student beliefs and understandings of sustainable development;

4. identify the possibilities and problems with incorporating sustainable development into higher education teaching in different disciplines;

5. serve as a 'pilot' for a potential, multi-university ESRC research application.

Please contact me if you would like to be involved and I can provide further information about the planned research. Debby Cotton (dcotton@plymouth.ac.uk)