Sustainability and Schools - Research by Dr Andrea Wheeler - How Can We Design Schools As Better Learning Spaces and To Encourage Sustainable Behaviour? Co-Design Methodologies and Sustainable Communities.

Research Diary

PAST EVENTS

December 2007 - February 2008

February 2008

4th February: "Capitalism and Nature" SERG, The University of Manchester.

5th February: Rubert Wegerif, School of Education and Lifelong Learning. University of Exeter. LSRI Seminar "Dialogic Education and Technology: Expanding the Space of Learning" 4.30-6.00pm.

6th February: Architectural Staff Meeting. The Mondraft Gallergy 1-3pm

12th February: SEDU Course about Performance/Activity Review. 9.30-12.00pm

13th February: Medici Fellow's Presentation to the School of the Built Environment, The Monodraft Gallery, 1-3pm.

15th February: The Human Development and Capability Association, Capability and Education Network Seminar, The School of Education, The University of Nottingham, 10.00 - 4.00 pm

19th February: "Sustainable Schools and Sustainable Behaviour" paper presented within the seminar series of the Learning Sciences Resource Institute (LSRI) Labs, The University of Nottingham. 19th February 2008, 16.30-18.00. Abstract available at: http://portal.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/Seminars/Lists/Events/DispForm.aspx?ID=40

25th February: Meeting with Natalie Crozier, Medici Fellow. 1.30pm.

26th February: Meeting in the Integrative Learning Studio, Hallward Level 1 to progress planning for collaborative research projects with regard to new learning spaces in Nottingham with Associate Professor Peter Jamieson of The University of Melbourne and Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, 9.30 - 11. 30 pm.

28th - 29th February: British Council for School Environments (BCSE) Study Tour of Hampshire Schools.

January 2008

7th - 9th January: "Flying Start" a National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurs (NCGE) Conference, York.

14th January: CREDE Away Day, Attenborough Nature Reserve. 9.30-3.30pm

15th January: Whole School Orientation, The Dearing Building, Jubilee Campus. 9.00-13.00pm

16th January: Agent Based Modelling. UKERC UK Energy Research Centre.

17th January: Meeting with First Year Architecture tutor to discuss children's workshops. Rose and Crown. 5.30pm

18th January: Meeting with Alan Dale, School Architect and BSF Consultant, The Dearing Building, Jubilee Campus. 11.30am.

28th January: Meeting with Suzanne Morton, APPLE (University of Nottingham Women Staff Development Course) ILM coursework tutorial.

29th January: Meeting with Professor Robert Arnott, The University of Birmingham, (IHWTC).

30th January: Start of Process Group (a module within the MA in Human Relations course). 5.30 - 8.30pm Wednesdays, for 10 weeks.

31st January: Meeting with Andy Noyes to discuss education research methodologies and work in schools. 3.30pm.

December 2007

4th December: Workshop with Professor Cees Van der Eijk, The University of Nottingham, Institute of Methods and Data, about the methodology of the project.

7th December: "If it works..." Planned Environment Therapy Trust (PETT) Conference, Cheltenham.

10th - 12th December: Researching Children Conference, SOS Children's Villages Hermann Gmeiner Academy, Innsbruck, Austria.