Sustainable Wellbeing in Higher Education

What types of assessments support students' sustainable wellbeing while maintaining academic standards? In this episode, UCD doctoral researchers, Sara Lannin and Aoife Keogh discuss the challenges and possibilities of flexible or creative assessments and constructive feedback to foster sustainable wellbeing in Higher Education and how we can move forward to create a more balanced assessment environment in Universities.

What are the biggest obstacles to incorporating sustainable wellbeing into the Higher Education curriculum? How can modules and courses be redesigned to better address both sustainability and personal wellbeing? In this episode, Dr Jessica Surdey explores in conversation with Daniel Guigui the challenges of designing courses in Higher Education that contribute to the individual and collective wellbeing of the students while preparing them for a sustainable future.

How do teaching methods influence students' wellbeing in the classroom? How do these methods impact their capacity to address sustainability issues in their lives? In this episode, UCD doctoral researchers Aoife Keogh and Sara Lannin, share their views about the different pedagogical approaches that can promote sustainable wellbeing in Higher Education. Sharing their experiences as both students and tutors they discuss how it would be possible to co-create a supportive learning environment that allows students to care for themselves, others and the environment.

What is the right balance between teaching sustainability issues and possible solutions when it comes to the sustainable wellbeing of our students in Higher Education? In this episode, Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz has a conversation with Eilidh Smyth, a UCD student from the College of Social Sciences about the impact teaching and learning about sustainability issues can have on our students' individual and collective wellbeing. The conversation focuses on good examples from both perspectives, teaching and learning, and explores how real-world examples and case studies in teaching can be useful to promote sustainable wellbeing in the classroom.

How can we adapt the curriculum in Higher Education to foster a holistic sustainable wellbeing in our students? In this episode, we have a conversation with UCD students Francesca Pignoloni and Marijke Rebel about their experiences. The students discuss with Dr Gabriela Martinez Sainz what they think works best when designing a module or a course that focuses on sustainable wellbeing and the impact it can have on student engagement.

Ainhoa Gonzalez Del Campo, Associate Professor in the School of Geography at University College Dublin shares her experience coordinating a field trip for undergraduate students to explore sustainability. We discussed how this helps to bridge sustainability and wellbeing in and outside the University.