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UCL Education for Sustainable Development Steering Group

The UCL Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Steering Group oversees sustainable literacy across formal and informal curricula, with termly progress reviews.
Programme ElementOur ApproachProgress and Measurement
Commitment

Clarify UCL’s commitment in the Sustainability Strategy: “Every student will have the opportunity to study and be involved in sustainability.”

Developed the UCL ESD Plan to fulfil this commitment.
Curriculum MappingEstablish a baseline and monitoring protocol to assess coverage and identify gaps.

SDG AI tool developed to track inclusion of the UN SDGs across taught modules. UCL Sustainability Annual Report monitors progress

Curriculum DevelopmentWork with faculties and departments to create sustainability programmes and/or a sustainability-wide module.

Two for-credit interdisciplinary modules in development. Faculty activity mapped and published on the ESD Network Resource Hub.

Staff Support & ResourcesProvide toolkits, case studies, training, events, and conferences to embed sustainability in teaching.ESD resources created and shared. ESD Network launched.
Co-Curricular EngagementStrengthen sustainability in co-curricular activities through signposting and programme development.

Student Sustainability Hub launched for clearer signposting of opportunities.

Steering Group members

The Steering Group is chaired by Prof Tristan McCowan and members include academic and professional staff and students representatives. The group reports to UCL’s Sustainable Development Goals Board and Sustainability Committee on a quarterly basis.

Organisers and Chairs

  • Prof Tristan McCowan, Institute of Education– IOE
  • Simon Knowles, UCL Grand Challenges– Co-convenor
  • Hannah Biggs, Sustainable UCL – Co-convenor
  • Dr Irina Lazar – Chair of Task-and-finish group 3 (Supporting Academics)
  • Prof Emanuela Tilley – Chair of Task-and-finish Group 4 (New ESD cross-disciplinary offer)
  • Prof Jane Holder – Chair of Task-and-finish Group 5 (ESD for postgraduate researchers)
  • Dr Lorenzo Lotti, Bartlett - Academic Lead for the UCL ESD Network

Students' Union UCL 

  • Simon To, Director of Policy, Governance & Advocacy
  • SU Education Officer

Professional Services

  • Amy Lourenco, Careers
  • Wendy Browne, Careers
  • Hariet Waters, Sustainable UCL
  • Leo Havemann, UCL Arena
  • Anne Preston, UCL East
  • Elena Falco, Grand Challenges

Faculties

  • Dr Hans Demeyer, Arts & Humanities
  • Dr Lorenzo Lotti, Bartlett
  • Paul Greening, Brain Sciences
  • Vivek Ramachandran, Engineering, Engineering Sciences
  • Prof Paolo Taticchi, Engineering Sciences
  • Nicola Walshe, IOE
  • Dr Alison Kitson, IOE
  • Dr Nicole Blum, IOE
  • Prof Douglas Bourne, IOE
  • Dr Vasiliki Kioupi, IOE
  • Dr Allison Lindner, Laws
  • Dr Jim Labisko, Life Sciences
  • Dr Vicky Hilborne, MAPS
  • Dr Adesh Sundaresan, Medical Sciences
  • Dr Witte Frank,  Social & Historical Sciences
  • Dave Walton, MAPS