DASSH Spring 2020 Conference - Strategies for Sustainable Futures

We are currently living through a period of change in higher education, with changes at local, national and global levels presenting both challenges and new opportunities for universities. This event aims to support Deans, Heads of School and other leaders in our disciplines in developing new strategies that can support colleagues and students

Speakers will include:

Professor Julia Buckingham, CBE, DSc, FRSB, Vice Chancellor of Brunel University on the review of Athena SWAN

Rachel Hewitt, Director of Policy and Advocacy of Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) on the evolving HE policy landscape.

Laura Clarke Arts Catalyst - a non-profit contemporary arts organisation that commissions and produces transdisciplinary art and research and activates new ideas, conversations and transformative experiences across science and culture, engaging people in a dynamic response to our changing world. The session will focus on proven practice and case-studies considering the essential role and voice of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in global and local matters of environmentalism and sustainability and how cultural organisations, practitioners and Universities can come together with communities to respond the growing impact of environmental damage.

The day will also include the DASSH AGM.

Full programme to follow. The speakers are subject to change and amendment.

The event is free to DASSH member institutions.