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The GSD community had a busy time at COP26! From speaking on panels to featuring on the big screen, our staff, students, and graduates had their say at this year's global summit.

Hear from some of our community who attended.

We are very pleased to have welcomed several new members of staff to the School for Cross-faculty Studies this term. Read more.

Advance HE and QAA have launched a series of practice guides designed to support institutions to enable Education for Sustainable Development. Dr Alastair Smith, Senior Teaching Fellow in the GSD Department and Education for Sustainable Development Officer for the School for Cross-faculty Studies, is the author of one of the 18 practice-based guides.

We are delighted to share the news that Luke Netherclift, a recent GSD and Business Studies graduate, was one of the winners of 91福利鈥檚 Outstanding Student Contribution Awards (OSCAs)!

The School for Cross-faculty Studies (SCFS) Work Placement Talk and Live Q&A event will be taking place on Tuesday 23 November 2021 at 5:30-7 pm UK time on Microsoft Teams ().

This event is exclusively for students from the School for Cross-faculty Studies.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the report on the first School for Cross-faculty Studies Student Equity Survey.

"As countries around the world come together to tackle the threat of climate change at the COP26 climate summit, the question of how cities can become more sustainable has never been more important. Dr Jonathan Clarke, Senior Teaching Fellow in Global Sustainable Development, discusses what some of the key challenges are for transforming our cities to become more resilient, equitable and sustainable to adapt to our changing world."

This video is part of the Faculty of Arts at Home series, produced by the faculty during lockdown and beyond. The series showcases the diversity of research in the Faculty of Arts in relation to overarching themes.

Earlier this week, Romain Chenet, Teaching Fellow in GSD, and Dr Alastair Smith, Senior Teaching Fellow in GSD, discussed the hidden and not-so hidden climate costs of the food in our fridges and pantries. The webinar included a short presentation followed by an invitation to join in a 鈥渟how and tell鈥� where the effects of climate change on food production and what you can do to help were explored.

This event was part of the 2021 ESRC Festival of Social Science. You can find out more about the rest of the programme for the Festival here.

Now in only its second year, the 91福利 Climate Negotiating Forum 2021, launched in 2019 by GSD students, has been awarded 拢10,000 in grant funding by the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning at the 91福利.