Overall objective: Led and supported by our Strathclyde Centre for Sustainable Development, we will equip our current and future generations of students, staff and stakeholders with the knowledge, skills and innovations needed for their life and careers in actively promoting and delivering climate action and sustainable development.
Students
Partnership is at the heart of the learning experience at Strathclyde – students are partners in enhancing their experience, engaging in decision-making and in enacting change. This partnership extends to all of our activities related to sustainable development and climate action, and we will engage with our student body on a number of levels to ensure they are fully engaged and ready to drive change as responsible global citizens.
- Ensure all of our students are conversant with the pertinent issues related to climate change and sustainable development.
- Support student led and student focussed events both internally and externally (including those with international counterparts) to drive awareness, activism and build networks for sustainability and climate action.
- Embed climate change, climate action and sustainable development across our curricula.
- Enable and support students to evaluate their personal development in terms of climate change and sustainable development skills and competencies.
- Engaging with external partners to provide our students with real life experience and opportunities to build their skills and competencies through secondment/placement and graduate opportunities
- Through Strathclyde Inspire stimulate and encourage students to engage in new business, product/service ideas supporting the green industrial transition, and support these through alignment to investment and supporting activities.
- Support and provide opportunities for lifelong learning.
Staff
In order to drive and accelerate the outstanding education and student experience we need to ensure that all of our staff (academic and professional) are conversant and engaged with sustainable development and climate action across their teaching, research and operational activities. We intend to achieve this by:
- Ensure all of our staff are conversant with the pertinent issues related to climate change and sustainable development.
- Support academic staff to embed climate change, climate action and sustainable development across our curricula, building the relevant skills and competencies in our graduates.
- Drive innovation in our teaching and learning to support the skills and competencies needed for rapid and just transition social, economic and environmental transitions.
- Support events both internally and externally (including those with international counterparts) to drive awareness, activism and build networks for sustainability and climate action which support our student experience.
- Through Strathclyde Inspire stimulate and encourage staff to engage in new business, product/service ideas supporting the green industrial transition, and support these through alignment to investment and supporting activities.
- Through our industrial partnerships open opportunities for industry to work with academics/researchers at the University and to understand key challenges in practice, and offer to staff opportunities work in industry to see first hand where research can make real impact.
Stakeholders
We acknowledge that a key role of our institution is to support stakeholders from across all sectors to accelerate the prioritisation of sustainable development and climate action within their own environments. We intend to achieve this by:
- Providing world leading capacity building opportunities through our partnerships and executive education offerings.
- Deliver bespoke training and knowledge exchange opportunities to our partners and stakeholders.