Sustainability

The topics align to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular SDG 4 to ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. It also aligns to the Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2024) overall requirement for ‘effective and inclusive practice’, and in particular to Professional Values V1: Respecting individual learners and groups of learners, and V2: promoting engagement in learning and equity of opportunity, and to V4: the wider context.

It supports the Cardiff University Strategy ‘Our Future, Together’ in supporting  ‘an excellent educational experience for students of all backgrounds’ and the strategic priority of Culture, Cynefin and Community: “We value diversity and will take the necessary steps to be a genuinely inclusive, positively bilingual and anti-racist university, building values, thinking and actions for the long-term.

Structure

This theme has 4 subsections:

What do we mean by sustainability?

Here we provide some definitions of what we mean by the terms ‘Sustainability’, ‘Sustainable Development’ and ‘Education for Sustainable Development’.

Why Sustainability?

On this page we will look at the broad context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, The Well-being of Future Generations Wales Act (2015), and the QAA / Advance HE Education for Sustainable Development Guidance (2021), as well as the narrower contexts of our new strategy, ‘Cardiff University: Our future, together’, and links to the themes of Inclusivity and Employability.

Embedding Sustainability in learning and teaching

This page will look at some practical steps you can take to ensure that sustainability is embedded in learning and teaching in your context, including some ‘Top Tips’, links and resources to get you inspired. We will also look at how you can recognise, highlight and share good practice in the areas of Sustainability and Education for Sustainable Development that you may already be involved in.

Case Studies

Be inspired by case studies from across Cardiff University. Here we include some examples of Employability and Enterprise partnerships, as well as modules that successfully incorporate sustainability content and pedagogies. We also provide links and highlight case studies related to a variety of disciplines from other universities in the UK and around the world.