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April 23, 2026 –
School: School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience Program: Undergraduate programmes in Physiology, Pharmacology, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Sciences Units: Skills Unit (Attended by about 165 to 170 students) How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate? Sustainability has been embedded …
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April 20, 2026 –
School: School of Medicine Program: MBChB Medicine (five-year undergraduate medical programme) Units: Pre-clinical teaching (Years 1-2), Clinical teaching (Years 3-5), Student Choice Projects, Year 5 electives How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate? Sustainability is integrated through a …
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April 20, 2026 –
School: Veterinary School Program: Veterinary degree programmes (veterinary science and veterinary nursing). Units: Introduction to Sustainability How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate? Sustainability has been integrated through a structured, curriculum-wide approach aligned with a formal curriculum review …
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April 20, 2026 –
School: School of Biological Sciences Program: Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes across Biology, Zoology, Plant Sciences, and the MSc Science Communication Units: Biology (1st year), Ecology and Conservation (2nd year), Research Projects (BSc and MSci), Green Planet and Blue Planet How is sustainability included in these …
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April 20, 2026 –
School: School of Biochemistry and Biomedical Science Programmes: Undergraduate programmes including Biomedical Sciences (BMS), Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM) programmes, Biochemistry programmes and MSc Biomedical Sciences Research. Units: Laboratory-based teaching (Year 1-2), taught units incorporating interactive workshops (Year 2), Final-year undergraduate and MSc research projects, …
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April 20, 2026 –
School: Department of Theatre Program: BA Theatre and Performance Studies Units: Applied Theatre (Year 2), Making Theatre (Year 1), Interpreting Plays (Year 2) How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate? Sustainability is embedded directly into students’ creative and …
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April 20, 2026 –
School: Dental School, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Program: Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS), Dental Therapy or Hygiene (BDT/H) Units: Oral Biology and Biomaterials (Year 1), Clinical Skills Lab (Year 2), Research (Years 3-4) How is sustainability included in these units? How did you …
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October 30, 2023 –
Unit name: International Trade (new 3rd year unit launched in 22/23), Summer Dissertation (MSc Economics, Finance, and Management) How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate? At first glance, this unit might not obviously link to sustainability. Indeed, not all …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series Programme Name: Geography How is sustainability included in the program? There was never a concerted, centralised effort to include sustainability into the curriculum in Geography, but it has emerged as a major theme throughout the programme due to its inescapable relevance …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series School: Biological Sciences Program: Biology Units: Ecology (2ndYear), Conservation Biology (2ndYear), Final Year Project (BSc and MSci) How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate? In Ecology, I took over an existing unit and reframed …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series School: Interdisciplinary (based in Geography) Unit name: Sustainable Development What is the unit and what does it cover? It’s an interdisciplinary open unit which takes a challenge-focussed approach to teaching the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). The main body of the …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series Programme name: PGCE What is the program (PGCE) and what does it cover? PGCE, or Postgraduate Certificate in Education, is a postgraduate secondary teacher training course. Our students are divided into separate subject specialisms (e.g., Geography, Maths, English) and they spend …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series Focus: How the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are embedded in teaching. How is sustainability included in it? How did you decide what was appropriate? We teach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of sustainability reporting, as global standards …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series Unit names: US Foreign Policy, Politics of Human Rights, Thinking Politically, Climate Crisis and International Security (Masters) How is sustainability included in these units? Sustainability is weaved into all these units through the inclusion of a variety of relevant discussion topics, …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series Programme: Civil Engineering How is sustainability included in it? Most of the design work in the programme is iterative rather than transformative, with sustainability teaching emerging organically from the content. We don’t have a sustainability stream or pathway or teaching group …
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December 12, 2022 –
Read the full series Program: English MA Units: Diverse Perspectives, Critical Animal Studies, Writing in the Elements Full What do these units cover? The units cover a range of topics. In the case of ‘Diverse Perspectives’, only some of this unit is on sustainability. For …
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