UWTSD lecturers to present at Sustainable Places 2023 Conference in Madrid
UWTSD’s Laura James and Christian Felices have been invited to present at the 11th annual SP2023 – Sustainable Places Conference in Madrid – a platform for the dissemination of research, the conduct of workshops, EU project clustering, and networking between stakeholders.
SP2023 will be held over three days in a hybrid (digital and in-person) event format. Sustainability targets and climate change objectives cannot be met without addressing buildings and the built environment at the building, district, and urban scale to include our transport and energy infrastructures.
Renowned for showcasing results coming out of the EU Horizon 2020 and EU Horizon Europe Framework Programme via the participation of cutting-edge research and innovation projects, the scope of Sustainable Places is captured directly in its name. It involves designing, building, and retrofitting the places we live and work in a more sustainable way.
Between opening and closing keynote sessions, parallel technical sessions and project-organized workshops will explore the various conference themes with submissions being invited on technology transfer, renewable energy implementations and energy security with the aim of facilitating actions that increase the rate of renovation and renewable energy implementations.
The University’s Carmarthen Business School offers a selection of programmes that are underpinned by an ethical, sustainable, and profitable approach to business. Its programmes have sustainable thinking at their core to enable students to challenge existing paradigms, interrogate new paradigms and debate business solutions which will prepare them for employment in a rapidly changing twenty-first-century environment.
UWTSD’s Laura James, Senior Lecturer and Programme Manager for DProf ; and Christian Felices, lecturer and Programme Manager for Employability Skills, and contributor to UWTSD Sustainable Development Group will share research being undertaken at the university at the conference.
Laura James said: “The research that I have been asked to discuss aims to throw some initial light on the transformation to sustainability leadership through discovery and analysis of the experiences of authentic sustainability leaders.
“Conducting and sharing such findings are vital for us to positively contribute to this topic and promise to revolutionise traditional views on leadership.
“This event brings together cutting-edge research and business leaders across the world, and I am privileged to be able to contribute.”
Christian Felices said: “I will be presenting “Toward Harmonious Business” which crosses a number of themes: Linking Place with policies such as the United Nations Harmony with Nature Through an exploration of contemporary sciences and philosophies.
“This research Subject approach is unique, and aims to add to the available knowledge, and open renewed dialogue around the concepts of sustainability and nature, particularly within the business fields.”
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