PLEASE NOTE: THE LOCATION FOR THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED TO VH.1.07.

As the University moves in to its 60th year and begins a period of renewal through the development of a new Strategic Framework, the world faces many different and existential issues than in the 1960s. The threats of climate change, biodiversity loss and the inevitable consequences on populations both near and far need a clear and unequivocal University response. To provide a vehicle through which the University will enable change amongst the communities it serves, we will be launching an Academy for Sustainable Futures, that will lead on the delivery of the University’s Response to the Climate Emergency. Our keynote speaker for this event is Dr Jane Davidson, Jane is Pro Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the author of #futuregen: lessons from a small country.

From 2000 – 2011, Jane was Minister for Education, then Minister for Environment, Sustainability in the Welsh Government, where she proposed legislation to make sustainability the central organising principle; the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act came into law in 2015. Wales remains the only country in the world to have put long-term sustainability in to law.