Case Studies & Action Enquiries

Our Development Interests All of our specialists come together to explore the overarching question: "How can we support sustainable relationships between work and learning?" Each one of us identifies a personal passion connected with this theme and works with other members of the community to develop a collaborative project to investigate this. We come together periodically to explore our individual and group learning, if necessary revising our questions, before returning to our projects to try out new ideas. We call this process 'collaborative action enquiry'. The following are some of our enquiries. How can we use social and technology tools to support the facilitation of participative processes for parallel personal and organisational transformation? How can we embed learning for sustainability to support the development of effective vocational learning programmes? How can we use communications to facilitate innovation for measurable sustainability? How can we produce multimedia that connects people more profoundly to a sustainable purpose? How can we embed natural and cosmological cycles in learning to reconnect people to nature? How can we use technology to make life better for people in their homes and workplaces as well as saving money or increasing revenues? How can we work with conflict and space to create participative and sustainable communities? How can we use complementary medicine and alternative therapies to develop a sustainable healing community for health service clients?

Here are some of the learning projects connected with this process, including some of our past projects:

Employers	Sustainable Development Commission Case Studies						Young People
The Leather Innovation Centre	Innovative energy services contracts (North Somerset secondary schools)						Creative Low-carb Learning
The Eco-Construction centre Community engagement as leadership & management training	Pupil-led behaviour change (Community College, Lewes)						Gangs & sustainability
	Solar 4 Schools (Solarcentury / Scottish & Southern Energy)						The Young Schumacher Project
These projects are linked to learning by designing outcomes around accredited training and development programmes.	Biomass replacing coal (Nottinghamshire County Council)						Safe Surroundings, Peer Mediation
These include leadership & management, graduate training, diploma projects and apprenticeship schemes.	CHP for school swimming pool (Primary School, Wigan)						The I Can, We Can Challenge
	Effective data (Dorset County Council)						German Animation Traffic and travel
	Promoting cycling (School, Oxford)						Positive Images Project
	Balancing travel & play (Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent)						Inclusion, Participation & Well-being
	Park and Stride (Primary School, Durham)						Pensbury Street Park Area Project
	Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (US State Government)						Arts Crafts and Friendship Club
	Green ticks (Office of Government Commerce)						Intergenerational Learning
	Green Accord (Exeter City Council)						Buildings & Grounds
	Sustainable Procurement Compact (Be Birmingham)						Global Perspective
	Green Procurement Code (Mayor of London)						Britain, Spain & Africa
	Sustainable Schools Coordination Group (Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber)						Arts in Nature