bill scott

Bill Scott is an Honorary Professor at the University of Bath having recently retired from there as Director of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment.  He is a director (and current Chair) of the community interest company South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition and a Trustee of the Forest of Avon and Wiltshire Wildlife trusts. He chairs the UK National Commission for UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development Co-ordinating Group and Forum.

Bill’s research has focused on the role of learning in sustainable development, on the contributions that educational institutions can make to this, and on the problems of researching the effectiveness of such activities.  He hopes that schools, colleges and universities need to take sustainability seriously through what they teach and how the operate as institutions, but not to the extent of disempowering students by telling them how to live their lives and what values to hold.

His blog is at: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/edswahs