The Wiley Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education Learning and Teaching

Rebecca Laycock Pedersenis a Postdoctoral Researcher and Assistant Coordinator for Sustainability in Education at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden. Her interests lie in using sustainability education to shape a better future, especially through the medium of food and food‐growing. Her doctoral research focused on understanding how to manage the impacts of students' transience in student‐led university food gardens, focusing on the National Union of Students‐funded program, “Student Eats.” She has also worked with embedding sustainability across disciplinary curricula and in the student experience at an institutional level at both Keele University, UK, and BTH. She has a Postgraduate Certification in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and, in 2017, she won an Excellence Award in Teaching and Learning for her participatory, inclusive, and student‐centered approach to teaching.

Beatriz Ledesma Canois a researcher at the Applied Physics Department of the University of Extremadura (Spain). Skilled in the use of biomass, hydrocarbonization, gasification, adsorption, and energy, she has published papers, book chapters, and international conference proceedings. Her research work is complemented by teaching tasks through the direction of final degree projects, seminars or laboratory practices, participation in teaching innovation groups, and numerous teacher training courses. She has interests in ethical competencies, project‐based learning, development cooperation, and education for sustainable development, and has participated in the publication of book chapters related to these topics.

Azza Malikis a Research Associate and an analyst. She works on interdisciplinary research in different fields, but mostly on business and marketing related themes. She is also a data science professional and provides analysis for companies, and has been a tutor for undergraduate students and has mentored them in their pursuits. She likes to spend time reading and researching on how to build a sustainable environment and making it carbon free. Her aim is to build multisectoral strategies to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in her country, Pakistan. Currently she is doing an MS in Marketing at the Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Capital University of Science & Technology (CUST), Pakistan.

M. Maparholds an undergraduate degree in industrial engineering from Kar University, Qazvin, Iran, a master's in Environmental Management (Health, Safety, and Environment), and a PhD in Environmental Management, both the latter from Tehran Science and Research Branch, Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Currently, she is a Research Collaborator and Post‐Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Research (CENSE) at NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal. She also collaborates with the Department of Sciences and Technology at Universidade Aberta (UAb), Portugal. Her research activity is centered on sustainability assessment and management, including public sector and higher education institutions, assessment indicators, and the integration of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) aspects of sustainability.

Kosala Marambe, MBBS (Colombo), PhD (Maastricht), is Professor and Head of the Department Medical Education of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and has contributed to undergraduate teaching and student assessments in the university's Faculties of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences and postgraduate training through the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo. She also supervises MPhils and PhDs in health professions education and is 2021–2022 President of the College of Medical Educationists, Sri Lanka. She has published her work in national and international peer‐reviewed journals, conferences, and seminars and has authored book chapters, edited conference proceedings, and served as a reviewer for national and international conferences and journals. She also has wide experience in coordinating and conducting staff development programs for academic staff of the faculties of health sciences, and in curriculum review and revision work, coordinating the quality assurance activities, and developing innovative teaching learning methods.

J. McKellaris an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science at Ontario Tech University and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada. She leads the Energy Systems Analysis research group. The group's goal is to contribute to the development of sustainable energy systems by (i) developing analytical tools in support of decision‐ and policy‐making, and (ii) completing techno‐economic and environmental assessments of energy systems. Dr. McKellar has taught courses on Solar Energy Technologies, Fuel Cell Design, and Life Cycle Assessment. Her undergraduate and master's degrees are in Chemical Engineering, and her doctorate is in Civil Engineering, with a focus on Environmental Engineering. Following her PhD, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship jointly with the Universities of Toronto and Calgary. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she worked in environmental consulting, focusing on air quality.

Amparo Merinois researcher and lecturer in the Department of Business Management at Pontifical University Comillas‐Madrid, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses related to strategic management, social entrepreneurship, and business and sustainability. Her research trajectory is framed by the multidisciplinary research field of Sustainability Transitions, and her current research interests focus on three levels: individual agency (e.g. sustainable behavior and interconnectedness with nature), organizations (e.g. social enterprise and business models for sustainability), and underlying structures (e.g. business logics and institutional entrepreneurship; critical, emancipatory, and transformative approaches to education for sustainability). In these areas she has taken part in several funded research projects and published scientific papers in high‐impact journals, such as Environmental Education Research , Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions , Journal of Cleaner Production , International Journal of Management Education , Journal of Macromarketing , and Human Ecology Review . She also supervises doctoral students and participates in conferences related to sustainability transitions.

Ján Mezey's activity is aimed at optimizing the growing technologies of fruit trees and grapevines in the context of preserving and increasing the content of bioactive substances in fruits. It is also focuses on the selection and analysis of nutritional indicators of individual species and varieties and the subsequent optimization of technological processing of fruits into juices with the aim of preserving bioactive and other substances.

Ivana Mezeyováis an Assistant Professor at the Department of Vegetable Production, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, SUA, Nitra, Slovakia. In addition to activities related to pedagogical activities, her main activities include research and collaboration on several projects. Her scientific and research activities are associated with the management of field experiments with spices, aromatic plants, and lesser‐known species of vegetables, selected laboratory analyses, data processing, and statistical analyses. During her doctoral studies she participated on scientific research led by Professor RNDr. Bernard Šiška, PhD, who contributed to the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 being awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She led an international project funded by the V4 (Visegrad: Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic) Foundation, focusing on lesser‐known vegetable species and spice and aromatic plants. She is the author and co‐author of four publications in the WOS and SCOPUS databases, and she has 57 citations in these databases.