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'Rethinking the sustainability of our UK Universities' with Dr . Sara Abdaless, Head of Division - Accounting, Finance & Economics, LSBU

Description: Universities contribute more than £95 billion to the UK economy (Universities UK, 2020) and are a major contributor to the job market, their local communities and society (both present and future). Universities have been leading the debate around sustainability through their research facilities and been producing sustainability reports as an organisation for years. Many universities also have sustainability managers, take part in various sustainability league tables and initiatives, however, is it enough?

Sustainability is often seen as a separate matter to the core business and as a fancy ad-hoc function, with a special focus on the Environmental side of it or even the financial one, depending on who in the organisation or the sector we speak to. The real change, that is needed to make our universities more sustainable, is adopting a wholistic approach to the term, a focus on normalising the term sustainability or even scrapping it all together.

This lecture discusses how universities need to rethink their sustainability and potential frameworks that can be used to facilitate that transition.

This lecture was recorded on 7th July 2021.