Education Community of Practice workshop (8 June 2026)
The CSEAR Education Community of Practice (ECoP) will host an in-person workshop before the conference on the theme “Deepening learning through games and place in sustainability accounting education”.
In this experiential workshop, we will explore the role of play, games and place in sustainability education. We look forward to welcoming participants to a full-day workshop with leading Finnish-based educators to experience ways of learning in connection to:
- Biodiversity offsetting game (Nina V. Nygren and Ville Kankainen)
- Gamification for sustainability transitions (Daniel Fernandez Galeote)
- Place-based education (David Derichs, co-facilitated by ECoP coordinators Caroline Linhares, Michelle Rodrigue, Shona Russell)
Make the most of the CSEAR International Congress by joining the ECoP workshop.
Speakers Biographies
Dr David Derichs is an education award-winning Senior University Lecturer at Aalto University School of Business, Department of Accounting, and a Visiting Professor at Seoul School of Integrated Sciences. He has developed and propagated modern approaches to accounting and business education, including VR and AI cases. His research focuses on educational development and the digitalization of performance management. David has more than eight years of international strategy consulting experience at RB (formerly Roland Berger Strategy Consultants), working on investor support, restructuring, and strategic reorientation cases.
Dr Daniel Fernández Galeote is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Centre of Gameful Realities, Tampere University, Finland. He has a PhD in games and gamification and a background in journalism, 3D art, game design, and game studies. His research explores how play, games, and gamification support engagement with complex sustainability issues.
Dr Ville Kankainen is a game scholar and designer located in Tampere, Finland. His dissertation “Hybrid Play Experience and Design in Tabletop Gaming” was accepted with distinction in Tampere University, in March 2025. With over 20 publications, Kankainen has also explored topics such as game design, game-based learning, game jams, board games, and hybrid play. Having also BA in interaction design, and MSc. in interactive media, Kankainen is also a multitalented communications expert, who is currently open for new challenges in research and/or design.
Dr Nina V. Nygren is a senior lecturer in sustainability at the Häme University of Applied sciences, Finland. She coordinated an international research and development project that produced an educational tabletop game on biodiversity offsetting in three languages in 2021. In 2025 the game was translated in Portuguese in Brazil. She has published research on more-than-human conflicts and collaborations in the urban setting and in the field of nature conservation, focusing on Siberian flying squirrels in her PhD thesis in administrative sciences (environmental policy) in 2013 and post-doc research on environmental education in zoos, and the management of urban rats in the multidisciplinary Helsinki Urban Rats project (HURP).
Facilitators
Dr Caroline Linhares, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability Accounting, Sheffield Business School, UK.
Prof Michelle Rodrigue, Professor of Sustainability Accounting at Université Laval, Canada.
Dr Shona Russell, Senior Lecturer University of St Andrews Business School, UK.
Schedule
Monday 8 June 2026, 9am – 5pm.
Workshop Fee and Registration
Anyone wishing to join the workshop will be required to register for this event in addition to registering for the conference.
Registration deadline: 25 May 2026
Workshop fee for lunch and refreshments: 25€ / £22
Link for registration will be shared in due course. For now, please save the date!
Contact
Should you have any question, please contact the ECoP coordinators: Caroline Linhares (c.linhares@shu.ac.uk), Michelle Rodrigue (Michelle.Rodrigue@fsa.ulaval.ca) and Shona Russell (sr65@st-andrews.ac.uk)