PRME CHAPTER UK & IRELAND NEWSLETTER 9th October 2026

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PRME UK & Ireland Newsletter 9th October 2026

🍃NEW EVENT: Navigating Sustainability Careers and Creating Opportunity

📅When: Friday 6th November, 12pm - 1pm

📌Where: Online, register here

The PRME UK & Ireland Chapter Working Group on Careers and Sustainability is excited to invite colleagues, students and sustainability educators to an insightful webinar exploring how to build a successful career in the rapidly evolving sustainability sector.

Guest Speaker: Jack Brewin Environmental Recruitment Specialist, Hays Recruitment

Drawing on his extensive experience of the green jobs market, Jack will share practical advice on breaking into sustainability careers, developing the skills employers are seeking, and using AI effectively throughout the job application process.

Why Attend?

As demand for sustainability talent continues to grow across industries, understanding how to position yourself in a competitive market is more important than ever. This interactive session will provide actionable insights for anyone looking to enter, progress within, or support careers in sustainability.

What You'll Take Away:

✅ Navigate the sustainability job market with confidence Gain insights into emerging opportunities and strategies for creating your own career pathways.

✅ Identify the skills that employers value most Understand the balance between specialist sustainability knowledge and the transferable skills that set candidates apart.

✅ Use AI effectively and responsibly Learn how to leverage AI tools to strengthen applications while ensuring your personal voice, authenticity and individuality remain at the forefront.

Click here to register and join us for an engaging discussion packed with practical tips, industry insights and career-focused advice to help you unlock opportunities in the growing sustainability workforce.

📔Launching An Organisational Guide to Skills for Green Workforce Transformation

Missed out on the fantastic book launch for the newly published 'An Organisational Guide to Skills for Green Workforce Transformation'? You can still engage, using the links below.

The launch was a lively event featuring eight lightening talks by authors who had contributed to the book. The timeliness of this launch was evident in the stellar turnout, which saw 100 people joining live to absorb some rich conversation on the range of topic covered.

Threading all of the important topics covered together, the chair closed by sharing that 'the collaboration, leadership, communication and influence that run through every chapter give a huge amount of hope' and that was certainly the feeling in the virtual room on the day!

Resources: Click here to access the slides and recording from the event

☎️Call for Book Chapters: Dismantling the “Good Student” Myth in Higher Education

This Call for Book Chapters gives the PRME UK & Ireland community a great opportunity to contribute to an important exploration of the traditional view of 'the good student' and how we may rethink engagement, success and inclusion in higher education.

For institutions committed to responsible management education, equity and inclusion, the volume raises important questions about how higher education defines engagement, capability and achievement, and whether existing systems inadvertently reward conformity over diversity.

The initial deadline for Chapter Proposals is 1st December 2026. You can find out lots more about the specifics of the opportunity and the timeline here.

🚀REMINDER: Future Facing Learning Conference 2027

Call for Papers closes 16 October 2027.

📅When: 7th - 9th April 2027

📌Where: Digital Life, Teesside University

Teesside University has announced the return of the Future Facing Learning Conference 2027, part of their global series exploring the evolving landscape of higher education. The theme this year is: Skills, enterprise and industry-linked learning: Designing curriculum for an AI-enabled economy. The Middlesbrough conference will take place 7-9 April 2027 in the university’s flagship Digital Life building, bringing together a global community of researchers, educators, technologists, and policymakers to examine one of the most urgent questions of our time:

What does it mean to learn, teach, and assess when intelligence itself is becoming artificial, distributed, and continuously evolving?

This conference is a space for bold thinking, practical experimentation, and meaningful dialogue. There are four themes:

➡️Reimagining curriculum for an AI-enabled economy ➡️Knowledge, expertise, and human-AI collaboration ➡️ Professional identity, ethics, and trust in AI-mediated practice ➡️Industry-linked learning and authentic assessment

Lots more details here

🌍Spotlight On Our PRME UK & Ireland Chapter Blog!

Don't forget that our PRME UK & Ireland chapter website is always packed with resources, reflections and details of upcoming events.

This month our spotlight is on:

🌟Dr Marc Duffy, who shared his reflections on being involved in the Climate Action Escape Room (CAER) Project, including it's showcase at the British Academy of Management Conference (BAM) 2026. To learn more about the project and his reflections, click here.

🌟Dr Christoph Naborowski, who shared his reflections as a first timer to the PRME UK & Ireland Conference. If you are ever curious about attending, and not sure what to expect, this is the blog post for you.

And don't forget that there is lots more over at our Blog & Knowledge Exchange Hub. Within it we showcase ideas, innovations, collaborations and experiences that are helping to advance Responsible Management Education, sustainability and societal impact. If you ever want to be included, just email us at: PRME@bcu.ac.uk

No idea is too big or too small!