Hi! My name is Mirjam Glessmer and I am part of Lund University’s Task Force on Education for Sustainability. This Task Force is coordinated by the Sustainability Forum in collaboration with the Division for Higher Education Development and the Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) at Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering, where I work as an academic developer.
As academic developer, my job is to support teachers in their role as teachers with whatever they want my support on. This makes my job both fascinating and challenging, since I often have to get into new topics very quickly in order to be able to help. “Teaching about sustainability” was one of those topics: When I started at CEE in January 2022, a group of highly engaged teachers had approached my boss and asked for a course on “how to teach sustainability”. While my teaching had touched on aspects of sustainability before, now I suddenly wanted and needed to know a lot more about theories, best practices, and suddenly “teaching about sustainability” had become an important focus for my work. I taught the course in fall 2022, and will be teaching another one now in spring 2024. For more courses, workshops, meetups and other events, check out the Task Force’s event page!
I have a personal blog where I write about my “Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching” (oceanography being the field where I got my PhD and did a postdoc before I transitioned into academic development full time), and there I also write about “teaching sustainability” among many other things (like connecting everyday experiences to disciplinary content — see above). You are very welcome to get in touch!
