Building a sustainable future: ideas and perceptions of university staff

IF 2.3 Q3 REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING Foresight Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI:10.1108/fs-12-2022-0170
Tuija Koivunen, Taru Konst, Mervi Friman
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Purpose The universities of applied sciences (UASs) in Finland play a significant role in providing skilled professionals with higher education degrees to meet the needs of the labor market and society as a whole. The purpose of this study is to determine what the staff in these universities consider the role of UASs in promoting sustainable development (SD) to be. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative research data were collected from a survey distributed among UAS staff in the spring of 2021. The data consisted of 831 responses to an open-ended question on how UASs could promote SD and a sense of responsibility for it. The method used for the data analysis was theory-led content analysis. Findings Staff at UASs are actively promoting SD in higher education and have many ideas on how to do this, which is encouraging. With further processing of these ideas and support from management, UASs can play a more important role in sustainability work and set an example for how to build a sustainable future. Originality/value The promotion of SD is a timely topic, and examples of SD implementation and good practices can promote discussion of the role of higher education institutions in SD promotion and highlight collective ways to promote it.
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建设可持续发展的未来:大学员工的想法和看法
芬兰的应用科学大学(UASs)在提供具有高等教育学位的熟练专业人员以满足劳动力市场和整个社会的需求方面发挥着重要作用。本研究的目的是确定这些大学的工作人员认为UASs在促进可持续发展(SD)方面的作用。设计/方法/方法定性研究数据收集自2021年春季在UAS员工中进行的调查。数据包括831个对一个开放式问题的回答,这个问题是关于UASs如何促进可持续发展和对可持续发展的责任感。数据分析采用理论主导的内容分析方法。UASs的工作人员正在积极推动SD在高等教育中的应用,并对如何做到这一点有很多想法,这是令人鼓舞的。通过对这些想法的进一步处理和管理层的支持,UASs可以在可持续发展工作中发挥更重要的作用,并为如何建立可持续发展的未来树立榜样。创新/价值推广可持续发展是一个适时的话题,推行可持续发展的例子和良好做法,可以促进高等教育院校在推广可持续发展方面的角色的讨论,并突出集体推广可持续发展的方法。
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Foresight REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING-
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45
期刊介绍: ■Social, political and economic science ■Sustainable development ■Horizon scanning ■Scientific and Technological Change and its implications for society and policy ■Management of Uncertainty, Complexity and Risk ■Foresight methodology, tools and techniques
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