Talks and Presentations

  • Guardian green

    It is notoriously difficult to capture education activities focused on sustainability in a picture – quite often they look like a bunch of people sitting around talking – an accurate reflection of reality in many ways.  So well done to...

  • EE in the USA: not an academic in sight

    I'm watching part of the recent White House summit on Environmental Education on You Tube.  Worth a view if only for the unusual introduction by moderator Marcia McNutt to the Panel on 21st Century Environmentalism: Shaping the Emerging Vision for Environmental...

  • The purpose of research is ... to sophisticate our beholding of the world

    A really enjoyable day in Plymouth, yesterday, at the first PedRIO conference where I chaired a session on sustainability and learning which explored a range of interconnected research topics carried out within the University. Joanna Blake and Stephen Sterling talked...

  • Aims and the Curriculum

    I made a short presentation on "Aims and the Curriculum" at the recent South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition seminar which focused on forthcoming changes to national and school curriculums.  The meeting looked in particular at the recent expert panel report...

  • If only we'd listened to Daisaku Ikeda

    In a mailing to the SHED-SHARE network last week, Manchester's Adele Aubrey wrote: "... Daisaku Ikeda actually proposed the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.  ... Ikeda believes the decade of education for sustainable development should be promoted with the...

  • So, What are universities for?

    Stefan Collini seems to be wherever you look; well, his book reviews are: THE, the Observer, and the Economist – which goes to show something of my narrow reading these days.  But for someone like me, who is a part-time student...

  • Speaking in Inverness – sort of

    Perhaps oddly, I gave my first talk via Skype the other day.  To Inverness, virtually, then, at a conference on Educating for a Low Carbon Future organised by the University of Highlands and Islands, SEAM Centre at Inverness College, CIFAL...

  • More frequent flier points anyone?

    As is drearily predictable, the BBC's much trailed new Earth science programme – Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey – turned out to be another excuse for collecting air miles and for presenters to have fun.  For once, however, Brian Cox missed...

  • The idea of the graduate attribute

    I am recently returned from an HEA policy think tank on Graduate attributes and the green economy. This is the two-page stimulus paper I drafted for the event: The idea of the graduate attribute This is appealing, seductive almost, and...

  • In praise of the LHC

    I should declare an interest at the outset: I am a big fan of the Large Hadron Collider, and in complete awe of its purpose. There is a story (true, I'm told) of an American physicist appearing before an Senate...