Sustainable Futures in UK Higher Education Through Multi-disciplinary Innovation and Advanced Practice: A Northumbria University Case Study

Marco Zilvetti; Matteo Conti; Richard Kotter

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-49853-4_21

Sustainable Futures in UK Higher Education Through Multi-disciplinary Innovation and Advanced Practice: A Northumbria University Case Study

Marco Zilvetti, Matteo Conti, Richard Kotter

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The following chapter intends to critically reflect on multi-disciplinary collaboration and co-creation practices as educational design strategies for near-term impact within higher education, involving external organisations. As part of transformative learning applied to the area of sustainability, three distinct case studies from Northumbria University are presented to illustrate how collaborative projects with external partners around sustainable challenges are tackled by teams of university students supervised by experienced academics. This practice represents not only a testing and professionally rewarding learning and delivery experience for students and academics respectively, but also an effective and leading-edge educational delivery model to reflect on. Its associated pedagogic benefits and challenges will be discussed in order to provide a strategic overview of one of Northumbria University’s strands of ‘future-ready’ approaches to Higher Education which strongly supports students’ proactive attitude towards both innovation and an understanding of how to respond to ‘real-world’ sustainability-related challenges.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Contribution of Universities Towards Education for Sustainable Development
Editors	Walter Leal Filho, Thais Dibbern, Salvador Ruiz de Maya, Maria-del-Carmen Alarcón-del-Amo, Longinos Marin Rives
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	21
Pages	341-382
Number of pages	42
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031498534
ISBN (Print)	9783031498527, 9783031498558
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49853-4_21
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2024

Publication series

Name	World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)
Publisher	Springer Nature
ISSN (Print)	2199-7373
ISSN (Electronic)	2199-7381

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

sustainable development
universities-research
innovation
cooperation
education
multi-disciplinary design
advanced practice
sustainable futures
Advanced practice
Higher education
Education for sustainable development
Multi-disciplinary design
Innovation practice
Sustainable futures

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Zilvetti, M., Conti, M., & Kotter, R. (2024). Sustainable Futures in UK Higher Education Through Multi-disciplinary Innovation and Advanced Practice: A Northumbria University Case Study. In W. Leal Filho, T. Dibbern, S. Ruiz de Maya, M.-C. Alarcón-del-Amo, & L. Marin Rives (Eds.), The Contribution of Universities Towards Education for Sustainable Development (1 ed., pp. 341-382). (World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49853-4_21

Zilvetti, Marco ; Conti, Matteo ; Kotter, Richard. / Sustainable Futures in UK Higher Education Through Multi-disciplinary Innovation and Advanced Practice : A Northumbria University Case Study. The Contribution of Universities Towards Education for Sustainable Development. editor / Walter Leal Filho ; Thais Dibbern ; Salvador Ruiz de Maya ; Maria-del-Carmen Alarcón-del-Amo ; Longinos Marin Rives. 1. ed. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2024. pp. 341-382 (World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)).

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Zilvetti, M , Conti, M & Kotter, R 2024, Sustainable Futures in UK Higher Education Through Multi-disciplinary Innovation and Advanced Practice: A Northumbria University Case Study. in W Leal Filho, T Dibbern, S Ruiz de Maya, M-C Alarcón-del-Amo & L Marin Rives (eds), The Contribution of Universities Towards Education for Sustainable Development. 1 edn, World Sustainability Series (WSUSE), Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 341-382. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49853-4_21

Sustainable Futures in UK Higher Education Through Multi-disciplinary Innovation and Advanced Practice: A Northumbria University Case Study. / Zilvetti, Marco ; Conti, Matteo ; Kotter, Richard.
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Zilvetti M , Conti M , Kotter R. Sustainable Futures in UK Higher Education Through Multi-disciplinary Innovation and Advanced Practice: A Northumbria University Case Study. In Leal Filho W, Dibbern T, Ruiz de Maya S, Alarcón-del-Amo MC, Marin Rives L, editors, The Contribution of Universities Towards Education for Sustainable Development. 1 ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 2024. p. 341-382. (World Sustainability Series (WSUSE)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-49853-4_21

Sustainable Futures in UK Higher Education Through Multi-disciplinary Innovation and Advanced Practice: A Northumbria University Case Study

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