Geoff Scott is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and Sustainability at Western Sydney University, Australia. From 2004-2012 he was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Quality) and Executive Director of Sustainability at WSU. During this time he led a range of successful external quality audits and established the UN endorsed RCE Greater Western Sydney.

He is a widely published author of reports and articles on change leadership, sustainability, social entrepreneurship, professional capability, what distinguishes successful early career graduates in a wide range of professions, assuring achievement standards and quality assurance in higher education. His book Turnaround Leadership for Higher Education with Canada’s Michael Fullan (2009) received the US Colleges’ Bellwether Award.

He is a former director of the Australian Council for Educational Research, a Fellow of the Australian College of Education, a foundation member of the panel of TEQSA experts and a higher education auditor, board member and consultant in many countries. From 2014-2016 he was National Senior Teaching Fellow with Australia’s Office for Learning and Teaching. This Fellowship focused on how best to develop highly capable, work ready plus graduates for an uncertain future and resulted in a website for assuring the quality of tertiary learning and teaching (http://flipcurric.edu.au/) that currently has more than 13,000 Higher Education users around the world. In 2007, he was the Recipient of the Australian Higher Education Quality Award.

Outline: What does it mean to build social entrepreneurship into the curriculum of universities and colleges? How are tertiary education institutions leading the way in helping their countries to systematically address the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals using social entrepreneurship projects in their learning programs and community engagement activities? ‘Powerful’ forms of assessment identified on the FLIPCurric site co-created by 3,700 HE leaders of Learning and Teaching from around the world and findings from research with 180 experienced ESD leaders on effective change management will also inform this keynote.

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