Sustainability in Education Research Group (SIERG)
We are a diverse group of educators, researchers and activists who have come together to understand and address Sustainability in Education. We encourage new faculty and PhD students to join us.
Our core areas of focus include:
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sustainability in outdoor and environmental education practice
- interdisciplinary and STEAM approaches to sustainability
- sustainability in teacher education (and Learning for Sustainability in Scotland)
- linguistic, ethnographic and international perspectives
- social justice, inclusion and intersectionality
- sustainability from philosophical and policy perspectives
- sustainability in research methodology and methods
Study with us
Our members teach on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Undergraduate programmes
Postgraduate programmes
- Learning for Sustainability (MSc/PgDip/PgCert)
- Outdoor Education (MSc/PgDip/PgCert)
- Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education (MSc/PgDip/PgCert)
- MSc Education - Philosophy in Education pathway
- Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) - Primary
- Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) - Secondary
- Social Justice and Community Action - Online Learning (MSc/PgDip/PgCert)
- Transformative Learning and Teaching (MSc)
PhD study
SIERG includes a number of PhD students. You can read about them and their research on our 'Members' page. If you are considering applying for PhD study, please follow the guidance on our School's 'Postgraduate Research Degrees' pages.
You can also explore the research interests of potential supervisors by looking at our members' profiles, which are linked through our 'Members' page.
Edinburgh Futures Institute course: Creating Edinburgh
This course allows you to explore the city of Edinburgh, both on foot and online. You'll engage with the city as a site for new ideas, designs and methods, working with students from across the University to respond to Edinburgh's various sites and routes.
Learn more about the Creating Edinburgh course
Members
Our work
Learning for Sustainability Scotland
Several of our members coordinate Scotland’s United Nations University-recognised Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development. Find out more about their work to make sustainability part of the everyday for all learners and educators.
Learning for Sustainability (LfS) Scotland
Contact us
If you would like to contact any of our members directly, please do so. For general inquiries, please email Sustainability in Education Research Group coordinator, Ramsey Affifi.
Dr Ramsey Affifi
SIERG Coordinator
Contact details
- Work: 44 (0)131 651 6207
- Email: ramsey.affifi@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Profile
Address
- Street
Moray House School of Education and Sport
- City
- University of Edinburgh
- Post Code
- Edinburgh EH8 8AQ