{"id":3190,"date":"2023-06-15T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T08:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/casestudies\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:52:27","slug":"get-sust-working-in-partnership-with-students-to-co-develop-a-board-game-for-raising-student-awareness-of-sustainable-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/casestudies\/2023\/06\/15\/get-sust-working-in-partnership-with-students-to-co-develop-a-board-game-for-raising-student-awareness-of-sustainable-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Sust! Working in partnership with students to co-develop a board game for raising student awareness of sustainable development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tracy Scurry (Professor of Work and Employment) and Sarah Carnegie (Senior Lecturer in HRM)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Newcastle University Business School<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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What did you do?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We worked in partnership with students to develop a game-based learning approach to engage Business School students with sustainable development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The aim of a game-based approach was to facilitate a social and developmental learning experience which would not only introduce the students to sustainable development but would also help with community building with a particular emphasis on the value of different perspectives and experiences.<\/p>\n

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Who is involved?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Sarah Carnegie, Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University Business School
\nTracy Scurry, Professor of Work and Employment, Newcastle University Business School
\nEmily Yarrow, Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University Business School<\/p>\n

Final year N200 Students (Graduated 2020): Jonty Carr, Benjamin Deepak Inian, Harit Jiaravongtrakul, Jessica Loyal, Alice Pertwee, Andrew Petyt, Matt White<\/p>\n

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How did you do it?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The game was developed by final year Business and Management students in 2019\/20 as part of their 40-credit capstone Management Consultancy Module [BUS3053]. On this module teams of students complete a business project for a \u2018real-life\u2019 client, undertaking research and identifying solutions to address the agreed client brief. One of these clients was the Newcastle University HaSS Faculty Associate Dean (Undergraduate), Dr Tracy Scurry, who provided the project brief to make use of \u2018gamification\u2019 as a means of learning and thus design a \u2018game\u2019 that could support the personal development of students by enhancing their teamworking skills and global and cultural awareness.<\/p>\n

The student team consisted of Jonty Carr, Benjamin Deepak Inian, Harit Jiaravongtrakul, Jessica Loyal, Alice Pertwee, Andrew Petyt, Matt White. They undertook an extensive review of the literature related to cross-cultural comptence, gamification and board games. As the project developed the sustainable development goals emerged as a central element of the game. The student team then engaged in interviews with experts (academics and professionals), testing of existing board games and focus groups to test their prototypes. The students presented their report and prototype in March 2020.<\/p>\n

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Testing the prototype board games<\/p><\/div>\n

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Since then we have worked with developing the game for ‘mass production’ and exploring roll out of the game within NUBS. The NUBS marketing team, supported by internal funding from the Business School, developed the board and hard copies of the game have been produced. We are now in the process of implementing and embedding the GetSust! in the student experience.<\/p>\n

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The final product<\/p><\/div>\n

The funding has also supported the development of an evaluation framework – developed with Karen Laing from the Inclusive Newcastle Knowledge Centre. The evaluation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

Next steps:<\/p>\n