Green Gown Awards 2019 - Dr Peter Bradley, University of the West of England - Finalist

I have led substantial integration of sustainable development into UWE economics teaching and research, and documented the experience faced by economists in integrating sustainability into curriculum nationally, to enable others to learn from the experience. I have ensured that sustainability runs through our undergraduate programme as dedicated modules or embedded into core modules and have led the setting up of an MSc in Economics specialising in sustainability.   

To complement and aid these tasks I have developed the first Sustainability Research Cluster for a UK economics department in higher education (with 18 members). As leader of the cluster, I designed, organised and hosted a very successful Conference on Pro-Environmental Employee and Consumer Behaviour with 80 registered delegates and 14 presenters.   

The way that the conference was organised allowed high levels of external engagement and knowledge transfer. The conference was free to delegates and slides were made open access after the event. 

Top 3 learnings:

• Perseverance in building understanding and skills with staff. 
• The important role that the cross university KESE group plays in building awareness and helping problem solve. 
• Student expectation and openness towards an economics curriculum that engages with real world sustainability challenges.