Project team

The project team consisted of 2 core staff and 1 paid student, from each of the 3 partners: University of Gloucestershire, University of the Arts London: London College of Fashion, and King’s College London.  

These paid student roles were essential to bring student perspective into the core project thinking, directly engage other students as course quality assessors and road-testers for the blueprint, and to ensure that the main output designed for students would be understandable and relevant to their needs and uses for it. 

University of Gloucestershire: Project Lead 

University of Gloucestershire (UoG) is a recognised leader and pioneer in sustainability and Education for Sustainability (EfS) and has twice been named #1 most sustainable university in the UK in the People & Planet league. It developed an early strategic framework to embed EfS, winning international recognition and a UK Green Gown Award in 2010. Its track record for integration of EfS into a range of courses has led to a range of further awards, commissions and grants to lead major sector initiatives for EfS development. It developed a unique method for assessing EfS progress across its diverse portfolio and in 2021 recorded high quality EfS integrated into 67.5% of taught courses, with the University targeting 100% integration by 2027.  

University of the Arts London: London College of Fashion

University of the Arts London (UAL) has 6 renowned colleges specialising in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts, and ranked second in the world for Art and Design in the 2022 QS World University Rankings®. London College of Fashion has pioneered fashion design for sustainability through its Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) since 2008. CSF are award winning innovators in EfS, in higher education courses, industry-linked lifelong learning, research and knowledge exchange, through an earth and equity first paradigm. CSF has been instrumental in the development of UAL’s Climate Action Plan, with frameworks for teaching and learning that commit to embed principles for climate, social and racial justice into all courses by 2025. 

King’s College London

King’s College London (KCL) placed 5^th worldwide in the 2019 THE Impact League and have been widely acknowledged for their effective development of an institution-wide sustainability innovation programme. Using student and staff co-creation methods, the University developed an introductory co-curriculum module in sustainability, open to all students, gaining over 180 full completions in its initial year. The institution seeks to scale up and raise quality in EfS in its formal curriculum offer, having carried out initial mapping exercises with student input, and now seek to develop more thorough methods for understanding and recording the inclusion of EfS in course experiences with targets aiming for 2026 delivery.