Themes
The themes covered by the UHI Centre for Living Sustainability include:
- Nature and People
- Intergenerational Justice and Communities
- Education
- Wellbeing Identity and Place
- Entrepreneurship/CREATE
- Creative Practice
We seek to contribute new ideas for inclusive sustainable development that challenges inequalities. This includes carrying out creative and applied research embedded in communities and consists of hierarchies of knowledge, social norms and intergenerational dynamics in communities and structural inequalities. This also involves understanding processes of intersecting aspects of identity and inclusion, together with gender and sexuality, age, race and ethnicity, religion, disability, but also incorporates issues of access to education, employment, and justice.
It also requires understanding many layers of changing contexts, including historical and recent/current conflict, transitions in politics and governance, environmental and climate change, cultural and social norms, mobility and migration, and personal and power relationships.
The centre considers different temporal scales of complexity, change and uncertainty that necessitates understanding perspectives on cultural and natural heritage as well as visions for future generations. Research about intergenerational differences in everyday lives and aspirations is inclusive of children and youth, who are recognised as having the energy and creativity to motivate others. By building partnerships and creative spaces for dialogue, we link people in communities, civil society, enterprises, and policy makers together as agents of change.
Cross cutting themes include:
- Inclusion and intersecting inequalities
- Intergenerational and community-driven research
- Navigating change and complexity
- Creativity and culture
- Mobility and migration
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Learning across global contexts
- The power of partnership