Actionable Sustainability Thinking
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Sustainability in all curriculum
As a compulsory part of education, every student at Radboud University will be educated on sustainability. What does this mean for the study programmes? What should they teach? What vision of sustainability will be offered?
Sustainability at the heart of higher education curriculum
In 2022, Radboud University launched it’s “you are needed” campaign, which aligned with the implementation of a university policy to integrate sustainability across all departments at the university. Sustainability, it appeared, was not just something for the environmental science departments, but something that should be core to thinking about all fie…
Sustainability Dispatch aspires to be the hub for all research and education related to sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. In this newsletter you will find manifestos, newsbriefs, upcoming events, reports of research, job opportunities, and breakdowns of emerging sustainability debates.
Read our Manifesto on the use of the sustainability concept:
The Real Sustainability Challenges
Meeting the Sustainability Moment At this moment we need unifying concepts like sustainability more than ever. Yet, its use is dangerously perched on the precipice of banality at best, and corporate capture at worst.1 We are a group of scholars across the biophysical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities working to build a common language of susta…
The RCSC Author Collective
The RCSC is led by Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers (Professor Environmental Governance and Politics, Faculty of Management) and Hans de Kroon (Professor Ecology, Faculty of Science). A group of Radboud University researchers, students, and lecturers from all faculties and an external advisory board are the internal and external pillars of the RCSC. Furthermore, the RCSC is in close collaboration with Radboud Green Office, the Program Director Sustainability and the network for sustainable development (NDO) at Radboud University. The main authors of the Sustainability Dispatch are Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers, Hans de Kroon, Cristina Aoki Inoue, Adam Calo, Adele Tufford, Joseline Houwman and Mathéa Debant.
Research
We enhance the connection of inter- and transdisciplinary research on sustainability by bringing researchers together, in seminars, joint projects and research proposals. Also, we increase the impact of Radboud University’s research to support the transformations and connections societies need to get to the SDGs’ objectives. We can do this because we make an effort to know society’s questions.
Education
In terms of education, we make sure that each Radboud University graduate is aware of the concept of sustainability in relation to their field of study, and stimulate the offering of a wide range of courses and study programmes. We support in the development of courses related to sustainability aimed at interdisciplinary education, and in the development of education programmes with sustainability at their heart.
Keep in touch
Do you have questions about Sustainability Dispatch, want to be involved in our core team, or stay informed of activities and developments? Subscribe to the newsletter below, or send an email to rcsc@ru.nl. To find out more about the RCSC, visit Radboud’s RCSC page.
The RCSC Core Team
The RCSC Core Team is composed of 15 scholars across the many disciplinary faculties on campus. Our current team engages with sustainability issues within their own disciplinary focus of environmental science, transformation studies, economics, ethics, global governance, law, politics, anthropology, sociology, business and finance.
Through monthly meetings, the core team meets to build together a common understanding of sustainability research, teaching and action, that demands cutting across the disciplines. The Core Team also serves as an advisory board to the RCSC activities and a hub for collaborative writing projects, grant scoping, and sustainability strategy.
Interested to join our Core Team? Reach us to rcsc@ru.nl or rcsc@substack.com.
The RCSC network
The Radboud Center for Sustainability Challenges is supported by an interdisciplinary network of Radboud staff.
