The AIP was also extremely busy with guest lecturers from the industry presenting at the Monash University Supply Chain Course. Over 150-200 students benefited directly by gaining discipline-based knowledge and authentic experiences from industry visits and guest speakers.
This year the guest lecturers from the AIP included John Bigley MAIP, Prof. Pierre Pienaar FAIP, CPPL, Ralph Moyle FAIP, CPP, Nerida Kelton FAIP, Alan Adams MAIP, Chris Cester MAIP, Joe Foster FAIP and Lars Lljung MAIP.
According to Senior Lecturer Ananya Bhattacharya “To achieve the climate change mitigation targets, businesses need to adopt greater sustainability practices”.
As such, driven by the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), business schools have placed a much greater emphasis on educating students about sustainability. However, there can be an ongoing gap between educating students about sustainability and transferring this knowledge into the workplace.
Recognising the gap, Ananya’s teaching practices focus on equipping students with the skills and knowledge to sustain and influence sustainability behaviours as they transition from university to the workplace. Aligning with UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and PRME, her goal is to empower students to translate sustainability knowledge into business and explore ways to overcome potentially prohibitive workplace cultures to act sustainably.
Graduates have received sustainability-specific roles, e.g., waste management, marketing, and packaging.
