Anna Lewis

Anna Lewis is a research associate and PhD candidate at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and an external PhD candidate in the Sustainability Education Research Group (SERG).

Her research deals with education for sustainable development, key sustainability competencies and competence-based curriculum development in higher education. Her PhD explores how key sustainability competencies can be embedded in higher education through competence-based curriculum and course development. One strand validates sustainability competence frameworks by asking practitioners from academia, organisations and civil society how they perceive, prioritise and enact these competencies in their work.

Anna is trained as an educational scientist, secondary school teacher and adult educator. At the University of Bern she teaches in the Sustainable Development and Sustainability Transformations programmes and contributes to their development. She has led and supported sustainability education initiatives in Europe, Africa and Asia.