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

March 2008 - May 2008

May 2008

13th May. Meeting with PGCE students carrying out research project with children about their new school buildings.

13th May. LSRI Seminar, Personalized Learning Research Project. 4.30pm -6.00pm

15th May. CREDE Seminar, "Community Cohesion: The putative death of multiculturalism and the rise of community cohesion". Dr Hilary Cremin, Social Inclusion and Citizenship Academic Research Group, University of Leicester. 12.30pm -14.00pm

21st May. Higher Education Colloquium: Equality and Inclusions, Re-Imagining Higher Education Pedagogies. Business School South, Jubilee Campus, With Dr Elaine Unterhalter (IoE), Professor Ann-Marie Bathmaker (UWE), Dr Monica McLean (Nottingham), Professor Carolin Kreber (Edinburgh) 10.30am-4.00pm.

22nd May. The Centre for the Environment meeting to discuss. EPSRC Research Call Adaptation and Resilience to a Changing Climate - Round Table Discussion. 10.00 - 11.00am.

22nd May. CLR Seminar, "The politics of literacy policy: what are the key issues in understanding large-scale education reform in England?" Dr Gemma Moss, Reader in Education at the Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, in the Institute of Education, University of London. 4.30pm - 6.00pm

24th May. Public Lecture with the Dalai Lama, Nottingham Ice Centre, 9.30 - 4.30pm

25th May. "Caring for Our World" Event with the Dalai Lama, Richard Dimbleby and children from schools in Nottingham and the rest of the UK presenting poems, and dance about sustainability, Nottingham Ice Centre. 2.00pm - 4.30pm.

26th- 27th May. Teaching with the Dalia Lama. Nottingham Ice Centre, 9.30 - 4.30 pm.

29th - 30th May: "The Ethical Dilemma of Lifestyle Change: Designing for sustainable schools and sustainable citizenship" at the Conference, Understanding and Shaping the City with Children and Youth: Ethics and Participatory practice, part of the CEDRIE International Colloquium: Public participation in environmental planning and management: a means of domination and marginalization? Reflections on the ethics of participation, Centre de Recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montreal, Canada. Abstract available on the conference website at: http://www.cerium.ca/CEDRIE-Colloquium-2008

April 2008

14-19th April: "Approaching the Radically Other of Animal and Natural Worlds: Exploring participatory and co-design methods in building sustainable schools" part of the Paper Session: Visualising with the 'Other': collaborative art practices and politics 3. At the Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston, Massachusetts (Scheduled for Saturday 19th April at 14.20 pm.) Abstract available on the conference website at: http://communicate.aag.org/eseries/aag_org/program/AbstractDetail.cfm?AbstractID=20853

25th April IHWTE Committee Meeting, 2.00pm PETT, Toddington, Cheltenham, Gloucester.

29th April The University of Nottingham, Samworth Academy, Discussion Meeting with Chris Hall, 12.30 in Room B43, School of Education.

30th April. Research meeting with Elizabeth Hartnell-Young, LSRI, Jubilee Campus.

March 2008

3rd March: School of Education, University of Nottingham, European Union 6th Framework Research Programme Workshop, "Overcoming Social Exclusion through Education: School, Local & National Strategies" The Dearing Building, Jubilee Campus, 10:00 am - 3:45 pm.

4th March: Meeting about the Africa School Project, The School of the Built Environment, Lenton Firs. 3.00pm.

6th March: SEDU Staff Development Course about Performance/Activity Review. 9.30 -12.30pm.

13th March: Sherwood Hall Library, Student Wine Society Tutored Tasting with Kieth Atherton. 7.30-10.30pm

18th March - Invited to contribute to the Environment Foundation, 21st Century Trust and the Dana Centre, Consultation on Democracy and Sustainability at The Dana Centre, The Science Museum, London. Programme, Proceedings, Vox Pops and Web debate available at: http://democracy.sustainability.com/conference/participants.cfm - Link to contribution.

24th March: Lecture by Cathy Burke, The University of Birmingham. 25th March: Invited to contribute to the Environment Foundation, 21st Century Trust and the Dana Centre, Consultation on Democracy and Sustainability at The Dana Centre, The Science Museum, London, 18th March 2008. Programme, Proceedings, Vox Pops and Web debate available at: http://democracy.sustainability.com/conference/participants.cfm

26th March: Inaugural Lecture of Professor Robert Arnott, The University of Birmingham.