Supported by CHARM-EU, this webinar series shares the background of Trinity College Dublin’s Enacting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) staff development module in the context of the CHARM-ED partnership between TCD, ELTE and UB. In Webinar 3, colleagues and PhD students of Trinity Business School will share their insights and reflections of the adaptation and delivery of the Enacting Sustainable Development Module to all incoming first year Business programme students.

TCD, UB and ELTE’s CHARM-ED project Enacting ESD will enable staff to experience, and then integrate the student-centred, action-oriented and transformative approaches into their teaching envisaged in UNESCO’s preferred pedagogical approaches. The project will adapt resources previously used for professional development in TCD (supported by video’s and teaching guides available as Open Education Resources) to create a micro-credential format shareable across the CHARM-EU Alliance.

This third webinar will outline Trinity Business School’s approach for adapting the module for incoming first year students (Dr. Norah Campbell and Declan Cahill). Participants can hear directly from the PhD students who rolled out workshops to undergraduate students in Trinity Business school for theme 1 on Exploring a Sustainable Existence: Limits to growth -The fishing game (Fódhla O’Connell-Grennell) and theme 2 on Systems complexity and future forecasting in sustainability: The Nitrogen problem, toward a sustainable food future (Sadhbh Crean). The webinar finishes with an open Q&A session.

 Date: Monday, 16 February
 Time: 10:00-11:00 UTC / 11:00-12:00 CET
Format: Online panel discussion (live stream + recording available afterwards)
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This event is open to all CHARM-EU members and anyone beyond who is curious to learn. No registration is required.

If you missed the previous webinar events, check out these resources:

• Webinar 1/3: recording and presentation
• Webinar 2/3: recording [coming soon] and presentation

 

‘Exploring worldviews, perceptions and values’ is one of five related blocks collaboratively developed by an interdisciplinary staff-student team in TCD (2023-2024). Videos are grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals, Rockstrom and Colleagues’ planetary boundaries and Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics shortfall dimensions providing core insights from experts. Mining in the Congo provides real-world case studies, developed by student interns, helping learners to question their worldviews, perceptions and values related to sustainability dilemmas from community, policy maker and corporate perspectives. Workshop activities incorporate cycles of role play and peer debate that induce learners to accommodate alternate perspectives presented by their peers using established techniques for moral reasoning competencies development. Reflection on Raworth’s social equity and gender equality dimensions are prioritised. Having experienced the workshop process as a learner, facilitated exploration of the theoretical underpinnings, or pedagogical approach, used in workshop design supports Teaching Practice development for those enacting Education for Sustainable Development.

Speakers

Dr. Norah Campbell

Norah Campbell is an Associate Professor of Marketing in Trinity Business School and a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. Her research is in the commercial determinants of health: identifying and measuring the ways business activities – supply chain, taxation, lobbying, marketing, product design and public relations – can impact the population’s health.

She does research on the fossil fuel, ultra-processed food, alcohol, gambling and tobacco industries, and teaches at undergraduate and executive level on strategies to counter harmful industries’ influence and promote alternative models of business and thriving.

Fódhla O’Connell-Grennell 

Fódhla is a Ph.D. Candidate at Trinity Business School, researching marketing and degrowth. Her doctoral research explores three, systemic proposals for post-growth and socio-ecological transformation, across political, corporate and social perspectives, with an overarching focus on how a reimagined role for marketing is communicating degrowth/ post-growth.

Fodhla joined the ESD team as a Workshop Leader in 2024, delivering the workshops to its first cohort at Trinity Business School.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fodhlaocg/ 

Sadhbh Crean 

Sadhbh Crean is a PhD candidate based in the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin. Her research explores the perspectives of materials scientists on engaged research; not only the perceptions of the researchers and leadership team but expanding beyond this to other stakeholders such as industry representatives, policymakers, and civil society.

Sadhbh was an ESOL teacher and holds an MSc in Environmental Sciences. She is a TA on the modules Fundamentals of Management and Organisation, Enacting Sustainable Development, and Organisation Change for Sustainable Futures.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sadhbhcrean

Declan Cahill

Declan Cahill is a lecturer and module coordinator in Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. His teaching focuses on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), systems thinking, and experiential learning for first-year students (cohort of 540 each year). Declan coordinates the Enacting Sustainable Development module, working with a large teaching team to help design student-centred workshops that explore worldviews, perceptions, and values in complex sustainability contexts.

Declan is also a PhD researcher in management, using qualitative and interpretive methods to examine leadership, organisational culture, and institutional decision-making. His work bridges management scholarship and innovative ESD pedagogy and is grounded in practice and shaped by the realities of large-scale, team-based teaching.

Dr. Cicely Roche

Cicely Roche was seconded to the TCD Education for Sustainable Development project, as a Fellow in ESD, in May 2023. Cicely’s key interests are in the development of ethical/moral reasoning competencies, use of curriculum design to drive competencies development and Programme-Focused approaches to assessment.

Cicely is module co-ordinator for TCD’s collaboratively developed (staff and students 2023-2024) ‘Enacting Education for Sustainable Development’. Module design is grounded in UNESCO (2017) preferred pedagogical approaches and competencies, and in experiential learning opportunities to empower staff to introduce ESD to curriculum in TCD. Piloted in May-July 2024, a second iteration was completed in Dec 2024.

Contact: rocheci@tcd.ie

Acknowledgements

The Trinity College Dublin, Eötvös Loránd University and the University of Barcelona partnership is supported by CHARM-ED (2025-2026) funding to support the development, enhancement, or redesign of higher education and lifelong learning activities across the CHARM-EU Alliance.

Module content and activities were developed collaboratively by six ESD Fellows (Carlos Rocha, Cicely Roche, Sarah-Jane Cullinane, John Gallagher, Clare Kelly, and Felix Mezzanotte) and four student interns, (Maryam Yabo, William Reynolds, Freddie Fallon and Tom Hegarty), as part of TCD’s ‘Enacting Education for Sustainable Development in Trinity’ programme in 2023-2024. A wide range of students and staff actively engaged with and impacted positively on piloting and continuous improvement of workshops during late 2023-2024. Content was edited to OER format by Mr Kevin O Connor at the Centre for Academic Practice in TCD (2025).

The work on the Enacting ESD module was funded by the National Forum/Higher Education Authority (Ireland) under the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.