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Nomhle Shantel Sandawana

Educator, Education Consultant and PhD researcher

EduWell Consultancy

Nomhle is a highly skilled and efficient academic and educator within United Kingdom higher education who combines excellent academic standing with wide-ranged, experience-based knowledge and empathy for young people. Nomhle is a first class graduate of two top best universities in the UK, including University College London and the University of Westminster where she graduated with a MSc in Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is currently a PhD/Doctoral researcher within the Institute for Global Prosperity at UCL where her research focuses on 'Alternative and Sustainable Futures', combining widely isolated strands of research between futures-thinking, sustainability and deliberative research. During her doctoral studies she notices the lack of impactful and transformative education about sustainable wellbeing within schools, which motivated her to work alongside The Brilliant Club (a UK-wide university access charity focused on increasing the number of less advantaged students accessing the most competitive universities). Driven by her purpose to help young people to navigate academia while impacting their wellbeing, Nomhle has impacted over 50+ young young people in UK state schools through her research and teachings about sustainable wellbeing which has in turn resulted to school pupils stating that they have gained a better understanding about the comprehensive dimensions of sustainability and willingness to engage in sustainable/holistic lifestyles.

SPEAKER SESSIONS

14 November, 2024 | 11:20 to 11:40
Sustainable Wellbeing education in schools

At the core of the talk is the idea of Sustainable Wellbeing - emerging as a new alternative and comprehensive approach to models and measures that integrate the two key notions of sustainability and wellbeing. This is because a development model cannot be considered as a generator of wellbeing if it is not sustainable overtime, where young people cannot consider  having acceptable wellbeing without considering nature and future generations. Accordingly, the talk sheds light on the need for transformative education about both sustainability and wellbeing, the talk embeds the audience within the concept of Sustainable Wellbeing and interlinks concepts of Happiness, Wellbeing, Holistic Prosperity and Quality of life. Through interactive activities, the talk enhances the audience's interest to learn more about initiating sustainable lifestyles through teaching about sustainability from a transformative and impactful lens.