(This section is being updated, since we could not put here yet in a more systemized way our many different research activities and materials. Please check out our publication about the CareLab’s activities, and further research outputs below:
Disterheft, A. (2024). Nurturing a Caring University: Exploring Inner and Outer Sustainability for Transformative Change in Higher Education. In F. Rotondo, L. Giovanelli, & R. Lozano (Eds.), Sustainability in Higher Education: Strategies, Performance and Future Challenges (pp. 27–51). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54026-4_2 (pdf for private use only)
CareLab team member Carolina Mello, supervised by Antje Disterheft as the first supervisor, did her PhD about the Deep Time Walk, researching its transformative potential in higher education, linking the inner and outer dimensions in sustainability learning:
Mello-Silva, C., Disterheft, A., Barth, M., & Pérez-Ramirez, I. (2026). The Deep Time Walk as a transformative learning practice: Including the inner and ecological dimensions in learning as sustainability. The Journal of Environmental Education, 0(0), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2026.2640028
Mello-Silva, C., Disterheft, A., & Woodford, R. (2025). Deep Time Walk. In J. Bentz & J. Ristić Trajković (Eds), Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World (pp. 209–214). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9_32
Deep Time Walk at NOVA School of Science at Technology on 17 September 2025 with a group of Bachelor students in Molecular Biology (Photos by Antje Disterheft)
One highlight of Antje’s academic reading list in 2020 was the article by Temper, McGarry & Weber (2019) who created a set of archetypes for “scholar-activist ” researchers.
Inspired by their cards, we wish to explore further the characteristics of the slow and care-full scholar (and educator, and student, and any other role we might be currently in).
Sources that inspired this research
Please feel free to download here the preliminary reading list that inspired creating and designing the CareLab for People & Planet and that will be continuously updated along the research.
Conference presentations in 2022
To be added soon!
Conference presentations in 2021
The CareLab was presented at the 27th ISDRS Conference on 14 July 2021. You can access the power-point presentation here.
The CareLab was also presented at the International Transdisciplinary Conference 2021 during 14-17 September 2021 with a photovoice project (see below) that was created during this year’s summer. We hope you enjoy the video!
Furthermore, the CareLab was presented at the International Sustainability Transitions Conference 2021 and at the 4th conference Sustainable Campus within the Portuguese Network Sustainable Campus (Rede Campus Sustentável).
Photovoice Project at NOVA School of Science and Technology
In Summer 2021, the CareLab carried out a photovoice project at our campus about two questions:
– What do I do to take care of myself?
– What helps me to take care of the planet?
See and listen the video that compiles some of the answers received!
