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Department of Interior Architecture and Industrial Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne VIC 3122, Australia
Interests: public good design; strategic and transformative design: design thinking and complexity; strategic and transformative design: sustainability; sociological methodology and research methods

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Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable development is a multi-dimensional concept, integrating economic, environmental, social and other factors. During and following the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD 2005-2014), higher education institutions globally have developed teaching units and programs addressing these various interacting dimensions, albeit with variation in scope and depth of coverage. In addition to its intrinsic multidimensionality, education for sustainable development (ESD) should also allow students to critically engage with weak anthropocentric and stronger eco-centric proposals for sustainable development. It is unclear to date whether this critical engagement is happening, and whether higher education institutions (HEI) and the curriculum enable such engagement. This Special Issue of the journal of Sustainability brings together case studies, summary reviews, qualitative and other studies addressing the nature, scope and depth of ESD in higher education across the globe. We invite authors across the globe in the HE sector to submit quality submissions for peer review and publication which address the challenges and benefits of multidimensional critical engagement with ESD.

Dr. Gavin Melles
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higher education institutions
sustainable development
multidimensional critical engagement

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Research Productivity in Terms of Output, Impact, and Collaboration for University Researchers in Saudi Arabia: SciVal Analytics and t-Tests Statistical Based Approach

by Mohammed S. Alqahtani, Mohamed Abbas, Mohammed Abdul Muqeet and Hussain M. Almohiy

Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 16079; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su142316079 - 01 Dec 2022

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Abstract

Analysis of the research productivity for any university is so important in order to raise its international ranking. Rankings offer universities evidence that the education they deliver is of high quality and top standard. A student’s level of dedication to their studies directly affects the outcome of their academic career. Sitting in on a lecture at a top-five rated institution is far less significant than actively contributing (engaging with classmates, doing research, etc.) at a top-50 ranked university. Using a SciVal dataset of 13 university entities across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over a span of 5 years (2017–2021), we conducted a scientometric study for three categories, namely Output (O), Impact (I), and Collaboration (C), incorporating a total of 18 features. The methodology for selecting universities in this research depended on selecting the best universities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in terms of the number of published research papers and the number of citations. This article aims to forecast the pattern of development and shortcomings faced by researchers from around the country from 2017 to 2021. The dataset is evaluated at the university level with homogenized features termed as “Scholar Plot” (SP), a popular approach to maintain and encourage development at the individual level. It is concluded that variances in efficiency within each knowledge field are the major drivers of heterogeneity in scientific output. Disparities in quality and specialization play a lesser impact in influencing productivity differences. The measure of such disparities using the mean of the group’s significance is illustrated using a t-tests statistical approach. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multidimensional Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions)

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