Towards sustainable management education: The potential of vertical integration strategies

Fortunately, there are many educational strategies that have the potential to be effectively applied in business schools generally and UDSB in particular. One strategy to be actively considered is vertically integrated projects (VIP). VIPs are ambitious, long term, multidisciplinary, collaborative, experiential learning projects designed to create pragmatic transformation in relation to specific social or ecological problems. They provide an educational infrastructure that allows students from different levels (first year to PhDs) and different disciplines to engage with external stakeholders and communities to make a difference. 

The VIP movement originated in University of Georgia and has been successfully adopted in many other universities. UK examples include: University of Strathclyde's VIP which purchases, installs and maintains solar panels in Malawi that generate free electricity to schools; the Strathclyde Law Clinic; and University of Birmingham’s Carbon Accounting for Net Zero.  According to Georgia Tech, VIPs create long-term exploration of the innovation process, cultivate leadership and mentoring, and support scholarship, impact and engagement. This workshop will introduce the VIP model, provide examples of previous and existing VIPs, and allow space for participants to devise possible VIPs that could be of value to UDBS our students, stakeholders and the communities within which we are embedded.

Presenters: Professor Ian Thomson (University of Dundee)

Host: Professor Colin Dey

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