The Sustainable University: Progress and Prospects

Stephen Sterling is Professor of Sustainability Education and Head of Sustainability Education at Plymouth University, and former Senior Advisor on ESD to the Higher Education Academy. A member of the UNESCO Expert Reference Group for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), he is well known as a leading voice in this field both nationally and internationally, through his extensive publications record. He was a founder of the Education for Sustainability Programme at London South Bank University, and current roles include External Examiner for the Sustainable Development Programme at St Andrews and membership of the HEFCE Sustainable Development Steering Group. Larch Maxey is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Sustainable Futures, Plymouth University, he is founding chair of Plymouth Incredible Edibles, a student, staff and community food initiative. He has been teaching, researching and practicing sustainability since 1991. His 45 publications include the book Low Impact Development: The Future in Our Hands (2009) and Small is Successful (2011). Larch has co-run several sustainable education projects, was founding Chair of Swansea University's Sustainability Forum and is currently Director of Research with the Ecological Land Cooperative and co-founder of the Transition Research Network, which brings together researchers and Transition Initiative practitioners. Heather Luna is a freelance education for sustainability consultant, having worked with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) as a project coordinator from 2005-2011. Her publications include the upcoming HEA policy think tank piece on graduate attributes and the green economy in the 21st century. She is a tutor on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and University of Bradford Postgraduate Certificate in the Circular Economy, and was an economics lecturer in NYC and in England. She founded Sustainable Thornbury, a Transition Initiative, and is active in the collapsonomics and Dark Mountain dialogue and explorations.