Maribel Blasco

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E-mail

mbl.msc@cbs.dk

Telephone

Office: +4538153349

Departments

Department of Management, Society and Communication

Room: DH.V.2.56

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Subjects

Learning Education Biodiversity Sustainability Green transition Ecology

Primary research areas

Responsible Management Education

This research strand explores responsible management education and identity formation in higher education, especially business schools. I am interested in the development of learners’ competencies, notably their personal responsibility, ethical awareness, and intercultural capacity, and in how these are supported, or not, by tacit dimensions of learning environments, e.g. the hidden curriculum.

Sustainability Learning and Transformation in Organisations and Higher Education

This research explores transformative sustainability learning in organisations, including universities and business schools. I focus on designing learning and shifting management practices, drawing on permaculture and a ‘head, hands, heart’ approach through the CBS Permahaven garden.

Academic Careers and Activism

This research examines how academics can enact activism through teaching and institutional practices. Drawing on permaculture and critical management studies, I study how inclusive spaces and regenerative principles can unsettle dominant higher education models and foster just, sustainable futures.

I link learning, activism, and sustainability for change

My research has shaped how education is understood and designed in business schools and beyond. Work on intercultural pedagogy and identity formation has revealed the hidden curriculum shaping students’ ethical awareness, creativity, and intercultural capacity. By focusing on tacit competencies often overlooked in higher education, I have influenced teaching practice and debates on meaningful learning in global contexts. I also rethink links between education, activism, and sustainability, drawing on permaculture to apply principles of diversity, resilience, and regenerative design. This has led to the idea of “subtle activism,” where small practices can unsettle neoliberal models and foster more just, inclusive futures. Through projects like CBS Permahaven, I bridge academia and communities, showing how education can model sustainable practices. Combining pedagogy, ecology, and critical management, I offer frameworks to reimagine academia as a transformative force.