The Sustainability Hub congratulates the recipients of the 2026 Sustainability Education Fellows Program grants! These grants support faculty members to create new courses or enhance existing ones with sustainability content.
Sustainability Education Fellows Program grants support faculty from across disciplines who are working to integrate sustainability and climate change content in their teaching so their students can become agents of change in the world.
This year, five interdisciplinary projects with participants from seven Faculties were awarded funding.
Sustainable Filmmaking
William Brown – Theatre and Film, Faculty of Arts
Christine D’Onofrio – Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts
This project will encourage students to develop a practice of film production from the start of their filmmaking journey that is environmentally sound, while also being ethically and morally ‘sustainable’ (i.e. inclusive of and/or respectful towards the global diversity of peoples).
Dimensions of Indigenous Cultural Sustainability
Eduardo Jovel – Applied Biology, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Joaquin Muñoz– Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education
This project will create an opportunity for students to explore how Indigenous principles relate to global sustainability challenges and how to integrate these perspectives into research and policy. Participating students will gain skills to apply Indigenous perspectives to environmental, cultural, economic, and social issues.
SHIFT: Sustainable Healthcare Interprofessional Fundamentals & Training
Miini Minami Teng – Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine
Larry Leung – Pharmacy Education Research and Leadership, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Healthcare contributes close to 5% of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, yet sustainability education is often missing from core training, or taught in silos that hide how upstream decisions drive downstream waste and emissions. The project will build a scalable interprofessional curriculum to help future clinicians deliver low-carbon, low-waste care.
Developing Transdisciplinary Teacher Education for Environmental and Climate Change Awareness
Dustin Garnet – Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education
Susan Gerofsky – Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education
This project will design a joint graduate/undergraduate field experience course in Education that weaves together art, mathematics, and ecological pedagogies to prepare future educators to address environmental and climate change education through collaborative, Land-based learning.
Repair as Design: Expanding Sustainability Education Through Electronics Repair Across Engineering and Environmental Science
Sathish Gopalakrishnan – Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science
Milind Kandlikar – Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Faculty of Science
Electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world. This project will expand on ELEC 300R: Repair as Design by creating a richer, more interdisciplinary learning environment in which Engineering and Environmental Science students learn alongside and from each other, mirroring the cross-sector collaborations that real-world sustainability transitions demand.
Funded and managed by the Sustainability Hub, learn more about the program, current and former Fellows, and past projects.