Sustainability Team 

Professor Daniella Tilbury

Director of Sustainability

Daniella Tilbury joined the University of Gloucestershire in October 2007 as Professor of Sustainability and shortly afterwards became the University’s Director of Sustainability.   She is responsible for leadership and learning for sustainability across the institution as well as for implementation of the University’s Sustainability Strategy ‘Promising Futures’. Daniella also overseas the University’s International Research Institute in Sustainability (IRIS) and its United Nations University accredited, Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) in Education for Sustainability.

At the international level, Daniella is known for providing strategic responses to sustainable development, assisting business and industry, higher education and government to make a greater contribution to sustainable development. She has also an extensive portfolio of consultancy work in sustainability having attracted over 5 million pounds from funding sources such as European Union, United Nations, World Conservation Union (IUCN), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), British Council, and several government agencies.

Daniella has had a lengthy and distinguished research career in the area of sustainability with a focus on leadership, learning and institutional change. She commenced her doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge at the age of 21 and completed within 3 years. Her PhD research was the first to look at institutional and educational development for sustainability within higher education. Since then she has been the recipient of several research awards including the Macquarie Innovation Award for Research (Macquarie University 2007) and a Marie Curie Research Fellowship (European Commission 2009). She was also shortlisted for the 2009 Green Gown Award for her international research.

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Daniella was the Founding Director (2003-07) of the Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES) which was established with funding from the Australian Government. Independent evaluations have confirmed that ARIES projects have assisted with reframing policy and practice across various sectors in Australia. In particular, ARIES research and publication on business executive training and sustainable development has changed the way in which business students undertaking MBA's are taught in Australia. This work has attracted significant media as well as academic attention.

Citation indexes suggest that her first publications (EER 1995) is still one of the most cited papers in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) internationally. Daniella is the Chair of the UN's Global Monitoring and Evaluation Expert's Group which advises on the assessment of global progress during the UN Decade in ESD. In this capacity she has informed the development of UNESCO’s first global report in ESD. She led the UNESCO-IUCN Asia Pacific Indicators Project in ESD (2004-07) and was the IUCN Global Chair in Education for Sustainability (2000-2005). She is  currently a member of the UNECE Expert Group on ESD competencies. She has also recently served as a member of the board of WWF Australia and as advisor to the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) based in Japan. Daniella is also a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Academy on Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education.

Daniella has over 100 books and refereed articles and has given keynote addresses in conferences across the globe. Most significantly, she was a keynote speaker at the UN's World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg 2002) and UN World Conference in ESD (Bonn 2009).  Her early work focused on monitoring and evaluation of ESD frameworks. She has assessed strategic initiatives for government agencies; conducted participatory evaluations for EU programmes and evaluated field projects in Tanzania, Madagascar, South Africa, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, China, Hungary, Vietnam, Australia, Spain, Tunisia, and Italy.

Seek Pang
Sustainability Coordinator and Administrator

Seek joined the Sustainability Team at the University of Gloucestershire in March 2008, and is responsible for the Office management of the Sustainability Team. This includes the coordination of activities relating to existing staff and PhD students, communication, correspondence, travel,  meetings, project bids, office administration, managing visiting Fellows/Researchers and student applications.  She is also responsible for the maintenance and development of the Sustainability Team’s financial systems including: preparation/reconciliation of monthly departmental accounts, yearend accounts, assist with the preparation of budget setting, preparation of quarterly forecast/phasing meetings, managing daily financial transactions, monitoring and tracking departmental budget spend, reconciling accounts and expenses, service/purchase and client invoices.

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Also, assisting with the preparation of funding applications and bids and the management/coordination of the Sustainability Team’s PIMS system. Coordinates the internal and external promotion of the Sustainability Team – including the preparation of Sustainability Team’s Conferences, Keynotes, Workshops, RCE Events and IRIS Seminars – to include budget costings.  Coordinates the production of departmental publications including annual report, Sustainability Strategy, Carbon Strategy and coordinates the implementation and development of the Sustainability Team’s web pages, promotional materials and updates on a daily basis.

Seek is the main point of contact for telephone and postal enquiries to the Sustainability Team and reports to the Director of Sustainability. 

Dr David Dowdell
Associate Director of Sustainability (Carbon)

Dave has responsibility for meeting the University's corporate targets outlined in ‘Promising Futures’. He works closely with the Director of Sustainability to provide advice especially in the area of carbon planning, management and measurement. His role also involves supporting Estates, ICT, Student Experience, HR, Finance and Planning as well as Registry in implementing changes to improve the sustainability performance of the University. Recent activities include the development of the University’s Carbon Strategy – Carbon Matters 2010-20, the development of the University's Sustainable Travel Action Plan and development of data collection systems for monitoring and reporting institutional performance.

Dave also works part-time as a consultant to public and private sector organisations advising on evaluation of sustainability impacts through techniques such as carbon footprinting (to PAS 2050) and life cycle assessment (LCA).  He joined the University in September 2009.

ddowdell@glos.ac.uk

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Dr Alex Ryan
Associate Director of Sustainability (Academic)

Alex has responsibility for curriculum development and staff development in Education for Sustainability (EfS) within and across University faculties. She works closely with the Director of Sustainability to reach the ambitious goal of embedding sustainability across the University curriculum by 2015. This includes strategic work to include sustainability within teaching and learning practices and to improve graduate employability, as well as targeted activities and guidance for specific subject areas and teaching teams. From October 2010 to September 2012, she is managing the HEFCE LGM-funded project Leading Curriculum Change for Sustainability, a sector-wide initiative involving five HE institutions in action learning to explore and develop EfS through quality assurance and quality enhancement processes.

aryan@glos.ac.uk

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Alex also works part-time as a consultant in HE research and evaluation and has carried out freelance work with the HE Academy ESD Project since 2005, including the 2008 Review of ESD in HE in Scotland; case studies of leading institutions in ESD; a series of ‘whole institution’ strategic change events; inter-disciplinary ESD; and ESD in social and historical disciplines. Alex has an inter-disciplinary academic background with research interests in Chinese martial arts, embodiment and meditation, globalization and interpersonal conflict. She is an Associate Lecturer in Religious Studies for the Open University and Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University.

Carol Rabbette
Coordinator of Public Engagement and Partnerships for Sustainability (UNU Regional Centre of Expertise)

Carol’s role is divided between coordinating the United Nations University Regional Centre of Expertise in Sustainability Education for the Severn area (RCE Severn) and working with partners to improve public engagement on sustainability issues. Her RCE Severn activities include organising national and regional events to share learning and best practice, developing collaborative projects with key partners, communicating with the RCE Severn consortium and supporting the international RCE community. Carol also develops and promotes initiatives to encourage students, staff and the wider community to engage with, and build the capacity to respond to, sustainability issues.

crabbette@glos.ac.uk

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Carol joined the Sustainability Team in March 2009, after working in local government for 25 years. Carol is a qualified town planner, with degrees in Geography and Town Planning from the University of Manchester. Her strong interest in sustainability developed during the time she coordinated the preparation of the Cheltenham Borough Local Plan. This lead to Carol’s appointment as Cheltenham Borough Council's Sustainability Manager where she worked with a range of partnerships in the environmental and sustainability policy field, developing and delivering projects and initiatives such as Cheltenham Farmers' Market, Cheltenham Climate Change Strategy and Cheltenham Low Carbon Partnership.

Cathy Green
Sustainability Officer (Voluntary Activities)

Cathy joined the Sustainability Team in December 2008 and her role involves supporting and encouraging volunteer activities in both staff and students at the University. There is a Student Engagement in Sustainability Action Plan that underpins much of the student engagement in sustainability work undertaken by this post. This includes working closely with the University Students' Union to support their sustainability and environmental Executive Officers.

cgreen@glos.ac.uk

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Cathy also works with colleagues across the university to look at how best to engage students in volunteering. Current projects include 1) how to reduce the carbon footprint of staff and students through a range of engagement events and activities and; 2) The Employable Gloucestershire Graduates (EGG) scheme. She also assists staff members who are involved in sustainability volunteering projects, such as the Edible Garden.

Barbara Rainbow

HEFCE LGM Project Coordinator

Barbara joined the Sustainability team in 2010 as a part time administrator whose responsibility is to coordinate activities for the HEFCE LGM project.

Barbara joined the University of Gloucestershire in 2005 as the Administrator for the University’s HEFCE funded CETL – the Centre for Active Learning. Following the completion of the project Barbara moved to the University’s Centre for Enterprise and Innovation as project office for the ECIF funded Graduate Challenge scheme and the Sustainability team to co-ordinate activities under the HEFCE LGM project.

Barbara came to the University from a local Further Education College where she was part of the Student Finance/Student Services team.  She has qualifications in IBT2, NVQ Advice and Guidance, with many years of experience in administration and customer service. 

Barbara supports an education charity project in Kolkata, India, and for the past 7 years has spent three weeks in the summer as a volunteer with the project 

brainbow@glos.ac.uk

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Adam Radford
Sustainability Projects Officer

Adam joined the Sustainability Team in September 2010. His responsibilities are largely focussed on the corporate aspects of sustainability at the University of Gloucestershire. This includes being involved in areas such as the university’s policies towards transport, biodiversity, food, utilities, waste and procurement. His responsibilities also include helping support IRIS workshops, RCE seminars and other sustainability events. He is also involved in creating webpages for Sustainability Team activities, including for HEFCE and UNESCO projects.

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Adam is a third year environmental management at the University of Leeds and is currently on a 9 month internship with the Sustainability Team at the University of Gloucestershire, due to finish in June 2011.