Research collaboration and sustainability: Taking it slow

One of the big issues that we are all facing in our lives and (to greater or lesser extent) in our research, is that of sustainable futures: how can we ensure that we are creating a world where everyone is empowered to ‘make informed decisions in favour of environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society for present and future generations’ (UNESCO Citation2021, p.1)? In relation to education, questions arise around what sustainable education means, and how sustainability relates to research methods in education. UNESCO’s sustainable development goals relate explicitly to the provision of ‘inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning education for all’ (United Nations Citation2015, p.18), and implicitly link to education in terms of the contribution that education can make in our progress towards all 17 sustainable development goals. Sustainable education, then, is both about ensuring our education is inclusive, equitable, and high-quality, and about learning how we can live in an environmentally and economically sustainable and socially just way, so we can create sustainable futures for forthcoming generations.