Sustainability in Learning and Teaching: Making it Happen offers three essential perspectives on why a focus on sustainability must be central for higher education institutions, and how this focus on sustainability can be embedded into learning and teaching. To be shared in the webinar will be guiding resources, practical strategies and concrete examples. The webinar will bring together insights borne of major projects and of extensive practice of effecting change at both institutional and disciplinary levels. With the need for work towards a more sustainable planet growing ever more urgent, the webinar will offer a powerful, practical opportunity to reflect upon our roles and potential as educators to support a more sustainable future.

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The Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education Dr Tahl Kestin (Monash University):

What are the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals? Why must these be a central concern of universities across the globe? How can universities contribute to the achievement of the goals through their research, operations, and leadership - and, very importantly, their learning and teaching? In this presentation, Tahl will address these questions as she introduces major Sustainable Development Solutions Network resources for higher education institutions, Getting Started with the SDGs in Universities, and its recently released follow up, Accelerating Education for the SDGs at Universities. Tahl’s presentation will point to some of the key steps, tools and tips of focus in this body of work, as well as some of the many case studies that illustrate how universities are leading major developments towards a more sustainable planet.

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Integrating Sustainability in Science Curricula 
Professor Kathryn Williams (University of Melbourne)

As a former member of the University of Melbourne Sustainability executive, Kathryn has contributed to the University’s Sustainability Charter and Sustainability Plan 2017-2020. She is co-author of Education for Sustainable Development, which establishes a framework to guide sustainability teaching and learning at the University of Melbourne. She currently serves as a Sustainability Fellow in the Faculty of Science, identifying pathways to embed sustainability values, knowledge and skills in science curricula. Kathryn will share what she has learnt about how sustainability figures in science curricula, and opportunities and challenges for doing this better.  

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Integrating Sustainability in Mainstream Business Curricula  Associate Professor Harsh Suri (Deakin University)

Harsh will speak on practical approaches to support SDG integration within business disciplines with particular reference to her work in the Deakin Business School. Harsh will highlight some approaches that have been especially effective, including the development and issuing of a major survey that proved to be a key starting point for informing collegial reflections and connections about sustainability in the curriculum. Harsh will also share some examples of the fruits of this work – examples of how sustainability has come to assume greater focus in the faculty's learning and teaching, and how it is contextualised in disciplines, aligned in curricula and scaffolded across courses. As part of her presentation, Harsh will also introduce the PRME Blueprint for SDG integration into curriculum, research and partnerships, a key resource to support SDG integration into business school curricula. 

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