Dr Rehan Shah was specially invited to deliver a research seminar to disseminate his scholarship research work on 'Embedding ethics and sustainability in mathematics teaching through co-creation' to academic staff comprising lecturers and educators from multiple STEM discipline departments as part of the newly formed 'Cauchy Club' community of practice for mathematics educators across the University of Bath.

Dr Shah's work is dedicated to understanding the need for the consideration of wider societal aspects within mathematics-based problems and to outlining some of the ways in which we can incorporate the teaching of ethics and sustainability within mathematics-focused modules at the undergraduate level. In his talk, he outlined how he implemented the principle of student-staff co-creation to co-design and compile (with students playing a pivotal role) a comprehensive teaching resource toolkit, both for educators and students, comprising varied examples of problems across different mathematical topics with key ethical and sustainability aspects embedded within them for use by academics within their own teaching practice.

His project documented outputs and results obtained from the implementation of these resources over the past 3 years across two of his large, core first and second-year undergraduate applied mathematics modules, featuring 850 QMUL engineering students.

The seminar was extremely well received the attendees, many of whom were keen to reflect on similar concepts encountered within their own teaching, in order to enhance the learning experience of students on their modules. The lead organiser Dr Samantha Hayward from the University of Bath shared a Linkedin post soon after stating "Thank you so much for joining us and sharing your experience, I know I speak for everyone who joined us both in-person and online when I say it was a fantastic session!"