Education for Sustainability

My teaching philosophy

I am involved in lecturing, tutoring, and marking on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Environmental Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Carbon Management, as well as supervising Masters dissertations (see main page for details). I love teaching, and I aim to facilitate Education for Sustainability, rather than Education about Sustainability. Amongst other things this means offering students the opportunity to learn skills as well as facts, to explore their own questions, and to develop their own thinking on the complex moral, social and political issues involved. For me, sustainability and good teaching are both personal concerns as well as academic interests, and I hope to encourage in students a serious engagement with questions of sustainability, as well as the necessary intellectual rigour in approaching them.

Here are some examples of feedback I've received from students recently:

"The lectures I've had from you have always been very inspiring"

"Your essay feedback was the best I have ever received throughout both undergraduate and postgraduate studies! It was fantastic, really constructive."

"I think you've been a fantastic tutor - asking very thought provoking questions and helping to steer the discussion in a new direction."

"I've had great use of the material you had in your lecture as well as the references you gave us. It's really helping me keeping on track and connecting it with the carbon-cutting aspects of the assignment... thank you for a really good lecture!"

"You did a wonderful job leading the discussion, maybe the best discussion leader ever!!"