Growth Mindset - Sensory and Medicinal Herb Garden for Education for Sustainable Development

Email: claire.mcdonnell@tudublin.ie

The aim of this project is to establish a sensory and medicinal herb garden on the Grangegorman Campus and to pilot related activities that can be integrated into undergraduate programmes. These will include researching how to grow the herbs selected, preparing infographics for display planters and making bakery products and soap using the herbs. Staff and student partners from Chemistry, Horticulture and Culinary Arts will collaborate on the project. The activities will be extra-curricular in this pilot and will then be incorporated into the curriculum. They will allow us to make learning outcomes on sustainable practices for soil transparent in related modules.

This Fellowship project is being led by Dr. Claire McDonnell (School of Chemical & BioPharmaceutical Sciences) and James Fox (School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology). (pictured right)

Staff collaborator: Rachel Freeman (below)