Dr Rosalyn Marron, Dr Helena Kettleborough and Dr Kate Seymour secured funding in January 2024 from the PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Seed Funding Competition for Developing Innovative Pedagogic Approaches and Teaching Practices. The aim of the project is to nurture eco-centric reflexivity, pro-environmental attitudes, and inter-organisational dialogue by ‘exploding’ management learning beyond the classroom. Fostering relationships and connections between communities, biodiversity and ecosystems that surround us in our inner-city lives can advance transformative learning about human and non-human others, training future decision makers to contribute to ecologically sustainable development.

The project has been created with our partners at MUD (Manchester Urban Diggers), who will offer our students a hands-on workshop at the Market Garden in Platt Field Park. To promote long-term impact, the pilot will be the subject of a research project, with findings supporting the development of an educator-focused workshop at MUD on approaches to eco-reflexive learning.