Learning Innovation for Tomorrow – The LIFT LAB

With public and media attention rising on sustainability, students are seeking a university experience that empowers them as professionals and future change agents for sustainability in the widest range of industries and careers. The University’s Learning Innovation for Tomorrow programme supports our academic teams to develop these kinds of projects and assignments across the curriculum.

This session shares insights from project leaders of four new LIFT projects that have created dynamic and thought-provoking learning for our students, which also enable our staff to develop powerful collaborations on this agenda with academic, business and community partners, spanning a range of Business and Design course groups, as well as Social Work, Psychology and Performing Arts.

4. Forward Thinking

Forward Thinking provided an event to connect academic staff with external organisations, to build collaboration and inspire new curriculum developments, on emerging sustainability agendas.

3. Radical Sustainability

The Radical Sustainability project developed a masterclass event that saw the University working in partnership with corporate sustainability pioneers, Interface.

2. Virtual Reality for Social Work and Sustainability

This Virtual Reality project has brought together colleagues from three academic schools to develop innovative training resources for Social Work that place people into challenging scenarios they will meet in practice.

1. Soundbites

Soundbites is the latest ‘sustainability makerspace’ project to create dynamic learning experiences that connect our students with the local community.