Posts by: William Scott

About William Scott

Bill Scott in an emeritus professor at the University of Bath where he was director of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment [CREE] and a deputy-director of the University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment [I-SEE]. He was founding editor of the academic journal Environmental Education Research, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a director of the community interest company South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition, and a Trustee of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and the Forest of Avon Trust. His research focuses on the role of learning in sustainable development, on the contributions that educational institutions can make to this, and on the problems of researching the effectiveness of such activities. Of particular interest are: [i] conceptual issues to do with the nature of education and professional development; [ii] pedagogical and evaluative issues about processes of learning and teaching; and [iii] ethical questions about the focus and limits of such interventions. These issues are addressed through research, consultancy, development and evaluation studies, through teaching, through writing and reviewing, and through working closely with research councils, government, industry, NGOs, and other agencies in the UK and in other countries.