Research Study
Ingrid's research looks into how and where social learning for sustainability takes place within higher education. Her thesis seeks to develop indicators which can assist in identifying the extent to which learning for sustainability occurs outside of the formal curriculum in Universities. Ingrid is in the earlier stages of her thesis and is exploring narrative approaches to ESD research.
Biography
Ingrid Mulà joined the International Research Institute in Sustainability (IRIS) as a PhD student in May 2008. Previously she was a postgraduate researcher at University of Girona (Spain) and belonged to its Science and Environmental Education Research Group (GRECA). During her time at GRECA, Ingrid contributed to the Project Greening the Curriculum: Towards disciplinary dialogue in formal education (2006-2009) sponsored by the Ministry of Environment of the Spanish Government.
Ingrid graduated with an environmental science degree and specialises in Education for Sustainable Development and monitoring and evaluation processes. In October 2007 she presented her postgraduate research project entitled Greening the Curriculum in Primary Education: Criteria and Indicators for Evaluation as part of the Environmental Education Interuniversity Doctoral Programme and obtained her Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA).
She is a member of the Catalan Network of Education for Sustainability (Xarxa Edusost) Research Committee and has participated in its Climate Change and Catalan Universities (2007) research project sponsored by the Department of Environment, Government of Catalunya.
In early 2008, Ingrid spent four months at the Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven (Belgium) collaborating on research into competences for Sustainable Development in Higher Education.
Ingrid is currently the European and North American Coordinator for the DESD (Decade of Education for Sustainable Development) Global Monitoring and Evaluation. She is preparing in collaboration with UNESCO the DESD Monitoring and Evaluation regional synthesis document for Europe/North America.
IRIS PhD Studentship Holder (2007-2010)
Email: s0712682@glos.ac.uk