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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Noemi SinkovicsORCiD, Dr Ana Bogdanovic, Professor Stewart RobinsonORCiD, Dr Stephen BlenkinsopORCiD, Professor Tracy ScurryORCiD, Kathryn Atkinson, Professor Benjamin BaderORCiD, Dr Angela MazzettiORCiD
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This report summarises the insights from Day 1 of the Responsible Futures Skills Lab, held at Newcastle University Business School on 6 May 2026. The day focused on teaching for responsible futures and explored how sustainability, ethics, responsibility, and futures thinking can be meaningfully embedded in business and management education. Bringing together educators, pedagogical innovators, external partners, and cross-disciplinary colleagues, the event examined how teaching can move beyond content delivery toward transformative learning, reflection, student agency, and institutional change. Sessions addressed a range of pedagogical approaches, including climate simulation, LEGO® Serious Play®, SDG-based reflection, the Better Business Scan, scenario exploration, systems simulation, and the Poster Method. Across the discussions, contributors emphasised that pedagogical tools are not solutions in themselves, but entry points for helping students experience complexity, surface assumptions, engage with uncertainty, and translate responsible futures challenges into action. The report identifies seven key insights: responsible futures education begins with experiencing complexity; tools require facilitation and debriefing; reflection turns experience into learning; assessment should capture shifts in thinking; students need agency as well as awareness; interdisciplinary teaching requires translation work; and institutional systems must reward the pedagogical work they claim to value. The report offers practical implications for educators, programme leaders, business schools, and professional communities seeking to strengthen responsible management education.
Author(s): Sinkovics N, Bogdanovic A, Robinson S, Hope A, Radclyffe-Thomas N, Hawthorne L, van Tulder R, Fiedler A, Hirst J, Perez Moraga V, Blenkinsop S, Vilasboas Calixto Casnici C, Scurry T, Atkinson K, Bader B, Mazzetti A, Chidambaram AB
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
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Type: Report
Year: 2026
Pages: 22
Print publication date: 23/05/2026
Online publication date: 23/05/2026
Acceptance date: 23/05/2026
Institution: Newcastle University
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20351431
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20351431
Notes: Conference/session: Responsible Futures Skills Lab, Newcastle University Business School, 6–7 May 2026, session “Research for Responsible Futures”
Contents: Teaching for responsible futures Report
