Gavin Bunting
A higher education and sustainability professional with significant experience in academia, innovative policy development, programme/ project management and delivery, with an excellent track record of project success.Highly skilled in research and public and private sector stakeholder engagement. I have excellent people management and leadership skills and am a driven and enthusiastic individual.
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To inform the plans for embedding sustainability throughout the organisation, a sustainability skills survey of all academic and non-academic staff was conducted. It was recognised that there is sustainability expertise across the entire university community, hence the inclusion of all staff. It also demonstrated the parity of esteem that the University aspires to between all members of staff.
The survey fulfilled the original aim of developing an evidence base of existing expertise, experience and interest in sustainability. The work identified opportunities for new curricula and research and engaged all staff on what it means to have sustainability as a core value and strategic priority.
Although papers are going to be published detailing the findings and opportunities resulting from the project, there has been significant interest from higher education institutions throughout the UK wanting to replicate the survey. Therefore, this document provides the questions that were used, in order to help other institutions take their sustainability agenda forwards. It is also recommended that institutions refer to “The Future Fit Framework” (Sterling, 2011), which provides an invaluable resource to help encourage and embed sustainability into curricula.
The authors are keen to hear from any institutions that implement this or similar surveys and would be interested to compare findings. It is kindly requested that this document is appropriately acknowledged in any replication and subsequent reporting.
This report serves two functions – it sets out the process through which the WSP and its Groups can serve as a vehicle for transition; and it provides background information and suggestions to enable each region to select carbon reduction priorities for action.
The report describes the importance of the Wales Spatial Plan in enabling the ‘low carbon transition’ in Wales. The existing Spatial Plan framework and delivery structure present significant opportunities for action on emission reductions. The framework has five operational functions which have been used to inform the recommendations for action within this report to ensure WSP Groups centrally and regionally are well placed to deliver.
The Panel’s vision is underpinned by five strategic solutions which need to be influenced in order to provide businesses and organisations with the incentives, drive and infrastructure to
adopt resource efficiency.
An Expert Panel on Resources Management has been established in Wales to advise the Welsh Assembly Government on resource management, current and likely future business best practice (Clement, 2005). This paper highlights eight key areas which the Panel consider need to be influenced to increase the resource efficiency of businesses in Wales. Within these key areas the Panel propose actions and theories which they feel could lead to positive change by businesses in Wales. The fundamental elements of a ‘smarter support’ structure are also proposed along with the effects this could have on resource efficiency business support in Wales.
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To inform the plans for embedding sustainability throughout the organisation, a sustainability skills survey of all academic and non-academic staff was conducted. It was recognised that there is sustainability expertise across the entire university community, hence the inclusion of all staff. It also demonstrated the parity of esteem that the University aspires to between all members of staff.
The survey fulfilled the original aim of developing an evidence base of existing expertise, experience and interest in sustainability. The work identified opportunities for new curricula and research and engaged all staff on what it means to have sustainability as a core value and strategic priority.
Although papers are going to be published detailing the findings and opportunities resulting from the project, there has been significant interest from higher education institutions throughout the UK wanting to replicate the survey. Therefore, this document provides the questions that were used, in order to help other institutions take their sustainability agenda forwards. It is also recommended that institutions refer to “The Future Fit Framework” (Sterling, 2011), which provides an invaluable resource to help encourage and embed sustainability into curricula.
The authors are keen to hear from any institutions that implement this or similar surveys and would be interested to compare findings. It is kindly requested that this document is appropriately acknowledged in any replication and subsequent reporting.
This report serves two functions – it sets out the process through which the WSP and its Groups can serve as a vehicle for transition; and it provides background information and suggestions to enable each region to select carbon reduction priorities for action.
The report describes the importance of the Wales Spatial Plan in enabling the ‘low carbon transition’ in Wales. The existing Spatial Plan framework and delivery structure present significant opportunities for action on emission reductions. The framework has five operational functions which have been used to inform the recommendations for action within this report to ensure WSP Groups centrally and regionally are well placed to deliver.
The Panel’s vision is underpinned by five strategic solutions which need to be influenced in order to provide businesses and organisations with the incentives, drive and infrastructure to
adopt resource efficiency.
An Expert Panel on Resources Management has been established in Wales to advise the Welsh Assembly Government on resource management, current and likely future business best practice (Clement, 2005). This paper highlights eight key areas which the Panel consider need to be influenced to increase the resource efficiency of businesses in Wales. Within these key areas the Panel propose actions and theories which they feel could lead to positive change by businesses in Wales. The fundamental elements of a ‘smarter support’ structure are also proposed along with the effects this could have on resource efficiency business support in Wales.