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In this episode, Rebecca Taylor, a graduate of the Education for Sustainability MSc, an English language teacher, sustainability coordinator and literacy specialist discusses some of the challenges and opportunities around sustainability being embedded in the English as a second language classroom.

In this episode: A discussion about outdoor education with Marina Robb (Bsc; PGCE; MA; Msc; Author), Founder and Managing Director of Circle of Life Rediscovery Community Interest Company and The Outdoor Teacher Ltd, both leading organisations that aim to transform education and health through nature. Co-author of ‘Learning with Nature’, a respected practical reference book for Forest School & Outdoor practitioners forwarded by Chris Packham and ‘The Essential Guide to Forest School and Nature Pedagogy’, Marina has been the recipient of funding from Natural England, Mind and The National Lottery, amongst other grant makers for her outdoor work with disadvantaged teenagers, families and young people. The flagship project ‘ The Woodland Project’ won the ITV People’s Project in 2017, supporting families and teenagers with disabilities and mental health issues. Marina is a senior practitioner for residential camps in Sussex woodlands, Forest School & training, nature-based training for adults, nature & health interventions, outdoor learning days and youth training programmes. In this podcast she shares a little of her 30 years experience in outdoor learning and her deep understanding of effective nature education through an outdoor discussion with LSBU host Brian Davies, currently completing the Masters Programme in Education for Sustainability at LSBU.

A panel discussion celebrating inclusion, diversity and fair representation within pioneering organisations. This session will cover topics such as closing the gender and ethnicity pay gaps, diversity throughout the organisational structure, innovative and inclusive initiative and policies and valuing all protected characteristics as a culture, not a checklist. Session leads: Sanchia Alasia, Head of EDI, and Sebastian Bromelow, Project Manager (OD/EDI), LSBU Joined by: • Cllr Marianna Masters, Lambeth Council • Marc McKenna Coles, Global Diversity and Inclusion Manager, Lloyd’s Bank • Joseph Galliano, CEO, Queer Britain • Marisha Drayton, Recruitment Partner, LSBU Biographies: Marianna Masters has held several senior positions within global financial and corporate companies over 25+ years. A long-standing advocate of Black rights she was Co-Chair of the Black Employees Network whilst at Thomson Reuters. Her passion for grassroots politics allowed her to be successfully elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth in 2018. She was Chair of the Lambeth Labour Group of 57 Councillors from 2018-2020 and is currently the Vice- Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee. She additionally is Vice-Chair on Our Healthier Overview and Scrutiny Committee covering 6 boroughs in South London. She also sits on the Partnership Board of Black Thrive, a mental health partnership between communities, statutory organisations, voluntary and the private sector. Visit: www.lambeth.gov.uk Queer Britain is working towards opening the first national museum focussed on LGBTQ+ people, gathering, exploring and celebrating their stories, histories and artefacts. It will have a strong educational agenda. It will be an innovative, immersive bricks and mortar museum which will preserve and present stories and artefacts. It will celebrate, explore and explain LGBTQ+ lives, and place them in a national and international context for everyone, regardless of sexual identity or gender identity. Joseph Galliano is CEO and Co-Founder of Queer Britain. He is a fundraiser, journalist, former editor of Gay Times magazine and third sector ambassador manager who is now throwing all his energy into building an organisation capable of launching a national LGBTQ+ museum, Queer Britain. Visit: https://queerbritain.org.uk Marc McKenna-Coles currently works as the Global Diversity and Inclusion Manager for Lloyd’s. He supports and oversees Diversity, Inclusion, Wellbeing and Culture objectives for the corporation as well as supporting the Insurance market. His role over the last 2 ½ years has been to lead the Global Diversity and Inclusion festival for Insurance, Dive In (https://diveinfestival.com/), which in 2020 had a global attendance of over 30,000 people across 35 countries and 144 events. Marc has also co-authored various guides and reports for the insurance market (https://inclusionatlloyds.com/resources/toolkit/). He supported and drove the Insurance Market Gender plan and target as well as developing the same for Ethnicity. He previously was a global Diversity and Inclusion Manager for RBS (NatWest Group). Marc’s D&I work at RBS, included improving LGBT+ inclusion for both customer and colleague, including, a policy and guidance to support Trans and Non-binary colleagues and improving how customers can update their gender marker on their banking profile. Prior to working in Diversity and Inclusion, Marc spent a number of years in customer facing roles within the bank and before this, spent approximately 10 years with Disney, both in UK Disney Stores and Disney Cruise line in the USA Visit: www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds/diversity-and-inclusion-at-lloyds.

The impacts of climate change are not experienced equally or fairly, between rich and poor, women and men, and older and younger generations.It is therefore imperative that we take action to address the climate crisis through a human rights approach. This session will bring together powerful young activists from around the world to talk about their youth-led campaigns that seek to achieve climate justice through different approaches and priorities, all with a focus on driving progress towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Featuring: • Jeana Malhi, Systems Change Organiser, UKYCC • Poorvi Mehrotra, Assistant programme Coordinator, Restless Development India • Jevanic Henry, Panelist, Youth Power Panel • Soumita Chakraborty, Youth Advisory Board Member, Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety • Hattie Tollerson, Student Union President, LSBU Biographies: Jeana Malhi is a Systems Change organiser with the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC), sits on the advisory committee for Beyond Suffrage, a board member with Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and Local Councils Officer at Hope for the Future. She is motivated by climate justice and opposing the capitalistic and colonial structures responsible for climate change. Visit: www.ukycc.com Poorvi Mehrotra is an Assistant Programme Coordinator in Restless Development India. She is passionate about advocating for the rights of young people and supporting them to take action in their communities. Her work has focussed on different Sustainable Development Goals and has worked with refugee women from Afghanistan and others in crisis situations. In India, she is leading a programme that supports adolescent girls aged 18-24 to conduct research interviews through mobile devices and leading Climate Justice work with young people. Poovi represented Restless Development at the Women Deliver Conference in June 2019. Visit: https://restlessdevelopment.org/country/india Jevanic Henry is a young environmentalist, youth leader and community activist currently pursuing final year undergraduate studies in Economics and Finance at the University of the West Indies. Despite this he continues to be involved in climate change advocacy and activism nationally, regionally and on the international stage, a passion which was fuelled after representing his country at the Regional Youth Climate Change Conference in Jamaica in 2017. Jevanic, along with fellow attendees formulated the Youth Climate Change Activists (YCCA) movement which seeks to raise climate change awareness and action throughout the region. Visit: https://restlessdevelopment.org/youth-power Soumita Chakraborty is a Youth Advisory Board Member for the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety. Engaged as a climate change professional with IORA Ecological Solutions in India, she works with subnational governments to design evidence-based policies and implementation frameworks to effectively address climate change. She is a social development professional with a diverse background on cross-cutting issues like climate change adaptation, disaster risk management, youth led development and road safety. Soumita works on strategic planning for urban resilience to traffic injuries and road accidents and is currently leading the climate action strategy within the coalition. Visit: https://claimingourspace.org

The focus of this discussion will be on migrants and refugees at a time of COVID and climate change. We are all in a time of uncertainty, therefore, solidarity and resilience is needed for all of us. The panel will discuss this in relation to the wellbeing of displaced people. In order to fulfil the SDGs for the sake of our future and of our common humanity, we need the resources of all. The panel will explore ways in which communities can support and engage with newcomers and find mutual benefits in so doing. Session lead: Ros Wade, Chair, London RCE and LSBU Emeritus Professor for Education for Sustainability. Joined by: • Jos Hermans, Founder and Chair, COMMEET • Saima Raza, Trustee with Migrant Help UK, Founder of ‘Under One Sky’ and Chair of the Refugee Forum in the largest borough in London • Ahmet Sayer, Founder and President , European Migrant Platform School: Law and Social Sciences.

This session will explore holistic sustainability, and look at what accessible and inclusive ‘conscious’ living really means. We will look at what we as individuals can do, and highlight examples of sustainable living and Climate Change activism not often centred in the mainstream narrative. This will feed into discussing the imperative for Climate Change activism to be led by the pursuit of Climate Justice, and why we must decolonise the environmental movement and ensure that our activism is intersectional. Biography: “I run a blog, Green Soul Grace, and an Environmental Education Organisation called Earth For All. Through my blog I share my journey of learning the meaning of holistic sustainability, and hopefully, in turn, create a community where we can learn from each other and advocate for the world in which we want to live. – Grace. Visit: https://greensoulgrace.org, www.earthforall.org.uk. 

Making profit seems intrinsically linked to exploiting the planet for its finite resources, or treating members of our global society unequally. Companies getting away with exploitative practices is one of the biggest crimes of our time. But how do we tackle this? Join us as we take on some big picture questions including... • Who has the power to drive change? • How are businesses getting away with it? • What laws are needed to protect the planet? • Which companies and nations are breaking the mould? • What can we do as individuals to support change? Session lead: Thomas Empson, Sustainability Project Manager, LSBU Joined by: • Shane Holland, Executive Chaiman, Slow Food UK More speakers to be announced Biographies Shane Holland is the Executive Chairman of Slow Food in the UK. He has held CEO positions within both the business and the third sectors and has chaired a number of large NFPS. Within the third sector his work has specialised in regards to our most vulnerable citizens, their issues of food poverty and food skills, education, offending, and access to service. His other current roles include Trustee of Borough Market, and sitting as a trustee of the charity United St Saviours, which gives grants to community groups and other charities of in excess of £1 million a year alongside running best in class almshouses. He is chair of Friends of Highshore School, a special school which has food education, growing, and food enterprise as an integral part of its curriculum. He frequently sits on expert panels, appear both in print and on TV and Radio; lectures at universities; has given a TED Talk as one of their “Architects of Tomorrow”; and carries out dozens of speaking engagements a year both within the UK and internationally. Shane will be exploring we can hold businesses, and ourselves, to account, as well as discussing how to spot greenwashing, and why shopping is a little like voting - a pound coin changes nothing, but our pound coins together can change the world. Visit: www.slowfood.org.uk.

This session aims to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on BAME communities. It will explore the systems relating to structural racism and how it contributes to the excess of BAME death. The panel also discusses the impact of COVID-19 on BAME women in relation to the rise of domestic abuse. Session lead: Dr. Jaya Gajpara, Course Director for Education for Sustainability, LSBU. Joined by: • Dr Calvin Moorley, Associate Professor of Nursing Research and Diversity in Care, LSBU • Dr Rosetta West, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, LSBU • Nelly Kibirige, Life Coach, former LSBU Student Union president and member of the LSBU Domestic Abuse working group on COVID-19 Schools: Health and Social Care / Law and Social Sciences.

This session celebrates Sustainability and 100 years of Women in Engineering at LSBU. Please join an interdisciplinary panel of experts in engineering, design, computer science, social science and psychology as they consider how gender influences approaches to problem solving and the particular challenges of meeting the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals simultaneously. Session Lead: Deborah Andrews, Associate Professor in Design and winner of ‘Sustainability in Action’ Award, LSBU. Joined by: • Dr Safia Barikzai Associate Professor of Informatics, an IT and Enterprise champion, Academic Lead for the Digital Grid Partnership and a STEMNET Ambassador • Dr Clare Benson, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering and member of Explosion and Fire Research Group, LSBU • DrJaya Gajparia, Course Director MSc Education for Sustainability and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, LSBU • Dr Liz Newton, Associate Professor of Psychology and Academic Lead for Integrity, LSBU School: Engineering.

Alumni of the Education for Sustainability MSc will discuss the role that education for sustainability has played in their work and careers. The alumni on the panel will be drawn from different countries including Cameroon, Kenya and Zambia and from different fields including water policy, agriculture, civic rights, anti-corruption and education. They will offer a view onfuture developments in their own contexts, particularlyin relation to climate change. Session Lead: Dr Glen Strachan, Education for Sustainability Programme, School of Law and Social Sciences, LSBU. Joined by: • Stephen Asek, Founding Board Member of Solidarity 2020, Cameroon • Euphresia Luseka, Water Governance Consultant, Kenya • Rae Merrigan, Teacher, Indonesia • Robson Nyirenda, Project Manager Opportunities for Youth Employment, SNV, Zambia School: Law and Social Sciences.

This session will focus on the place that international law, and indeed law generally, plays in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. A traditional approach to global governance might suggest that improved sustainability needs more regulation, stronger institutions and more enforceable rules. However, this session will consider whether, in fact, the strength of the SDGs lies in their lack of legal authority, their weak institutional arrangements and in their delegated decision-making processes that give rise to the possibility of global justice through shared social responsibility. Session lead: Professor Craig Barker, Dean. School: Law and Social Sciences.

Biography: Alyssa Gilbert is the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. In preparation for the UK’s hosting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Glasgow in November 2021, Alyssa is chairing the COP26 Universities Network, a nation-wide network of academics and professionals working to deliver impact on climate change. Prior to joining Imperial, Alyssa worked at the specialist energy and climate consultancy Ecofys providing policy design and evaluation services. Alyssa has worked on environmental and climate change issues across a range of countries including China, France, Spain Romania, Morocco, the UK and the US. Alyssa has also worked as a researcher for the Deputy Mayor of London and as a journalist on Environmental Policy in Brussels. Visit: www.ukcop26.org.