Sam Barnett from Forth Environmental Resilience Array introduced their project, hosted by the University of Stirling at the EAUC-Scotland Forum Meeting in December 2021. The...
Our EAUC-Scotland Conference 2019, entitled the Elephants in the Room, included several plenary sessions. This page contains the resources from the session on The Purpose of FHE...
Has sustainability education been ‘tamed’ to fit with the performativity culture in which reporting and measuring ultimately drive practice? There are a growing...
This paper discussed the outcome of the research workshop called ‘Crowd Research’ conducted with final year undergraduate students at Nottingham Trent University.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), is inviting calls for research proposals under its Sustainability Hub.
Student Sustainability Conference
UNESCO have released this publication reviewing some of the most topical trends and issues for ESD. They describe it as: “The present volume addresses Education for...
SDG 4 Quality Education - Research on education and sustainable development: scholarly output, growth, impact and collaboration
Université Lille 1 : SunRIse Smart City A project that aims at transforming the University into a place of research and experimentation of urban digital infrastructure...
This report presents the findings of the Sustainability in Education survey conducted in 2017.
The Office for Campus Sustainability at Western Michigan University have shared several resources. Please find available to download at the bottom of this page:...
The International Council for Science (ICSU), has released the report 'A Guide to SDG Interactions: from Science to Implementation'. Released in 2017, the report is...
This article is about using research from a practitioner perspective. It tells the stories of four teachers and a researcher, who were part of a collaborative project focused on...
EAUC has launched its Living Labs Research. A university or college Living Lab is where real-world institutional problems are addressed in new dynamic partnerships between all...
This workshop presentation is from the “Global Goals: Local Action” EAUC Annual Conference 2017, presented by Hassan Waheed, Researcher - EAUC. Thom Cooper,...
Jamie Agombar, Head of Sustainability, NUS emailed the Biodiversity Community of Practice with the following request, “We are working with The Woodland Trust on their...
Homes Fit For Study revealed that over three quarters of students have a problem with the condition of their home, as well as other insights into the environmental performance...
For the sixth year in a row, 80 per cent of students have told NUS that they want their institutions to be doing more on sustainability, and 60 per cent want to learn more about...
When NUS launched our food growing programme Student Eats in 2015, we conducted some research among students to find out more about their eating habits and attitudes.
In 2012, NUS asked students about what they understood Fairtrade to mean, as well as how important it was to them, where they get their Fairtrade clothing from, and what they...
In 2015, we partnered with Scouts, the Canal and Rivers Trust, and RSPB to ask young people about their perceptions on their involvement in local decisions, and how they can...
In 2016, NUS began work on a clothing rental scheme for students' unions - applying the principles of the circular economy. The process started by conducting research...
NUS are really proud to be able to publish our full report on Students’ Green Fund – demonstrating the incredible impact which our movement’s 25 transformational...
Harvard University has made a very exciting announcement about dramatically strengthening their Living Laboratory. They have launched a 3-year course which allows students to...
Robin Saha of University of Montana wins the Thomas Ehlrich award for his services of connecting his research and students to sustainability issues within the local communities....
This workshop presentation is from the “Learning and Legacy: The Role of Education in Creating Healthier and Happier Cities” EAUC Annual Conference 2016, presented...
On Friday 18th March 2016, the Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Topic Support Network met to discuss the sustainability programmes...
This volume is both an interesting introduction to the variety of impacts that environmental science research has in the UK, and a useful resource for researchers seeking to...
In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Chris Willmore, University Academic Director of Undergraduate Studies and Green Academy Academic Lead at the University of Bristol...
Part of the ambition of the School of Ponts Paris Tech to "be the world reference for research, innovation and training in key areas of sustainable development", the...
This course discusses the positive and negative impact of logistics and mobility on society, economically as well as socially and ecologically. It focuses on how the sector can...
In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Beatriz Acevedo (Senior Lecturer and Artist) is teaching and working with students on sustainability in her role at Anglia Ruskin...
In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Aled Jones, Director, Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University manages an interdisciplinary research institute...
Straddling the disciplines of facilities management and scientific research support, the sustainable labs co-ordinator is an emerging role in universities. Martin Farley, became...
The Sustainability Program has grown since 2006 to include initiatives across leadership and governance, facilities and operations, learning teaching and research, and...
University of Tampere, Finland, is committed to educate people who understand the world and change it. A multidisciplinary sustainable development study module was opened...
Researchers and practitioners at the University of Edinburgh have been working together to identify how principles of the Circular Economy can be embedded in Research, Learning...
S-Lab Project Coordinator, King’s College London Martin Farley has helped pioneer innovative projects in a largely untapped area of sustainability - laboratories. To...
Helium is a non-renewable resource and is essential for the operation of MRI scanners and magnets supporting research into drug discovery to cure such diseases as...
In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Valeria Vargas (Education for Sustainable Development Coordinator) is finding opportunities to embed sustainability into the...
Humanitarian Engineering Research Programme – Sustainable Solutions Transforming Lives The Programme is an innovative education and research programme that engages...
Researchers and practitioners at the University of Edinburgh have been working together to identify how principles of the Circular Economy can be embedded in Research, Learning...
Shaping Sustainable Cities. RMIT’s vision is to be urban in orientation and creativity, shaping sustainable cities and drawing inspiration from the challenges and...
This presentation is from the “Challenging Connections” EAUC Annual Conference 2015, Further Education Summit in partnership with AoC, presented by Graham Whalley,...
An international report has been released by the International Council for Science which provides an expert commentary on the proposed 2015 Sustainable Development Goals
The Living Laboratory has allowed students from diverse academic backgrounds to create dynamic research projects, identifying solutions to the environmental sustainability...
The Local Wisdom project explores the rewarding and resourceful practices associated with using clothes, called, the ‘craft of use’.
This is the second report on research carried out by the National Union of Students for the Higher Education Academy into student attitudes towards sustainable development.
There are 2.5 billion people without access to toilets, resulting in the death of 1.5 million children annually from unclean water.
Over 5.8 million people in about 30 countries utilise the SODIS method, but lack any UV indicator technology, necessary to ensure 100% success.
The CSI is an independent index underpinned by sound academic research that allows suppliers to obtain a score of their social, economic and environmental sustainability...
NUS conducts monthly surveys among students to gauge opinions on a range of issues, some of which related to climate change and sustainability.
A new, open-access journal “Visions for Sustainability” published by the Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Sustainability has been launched. The journal covers...
Liz Cooper, Research and Policy Manager, University of Edinburgh and EAUC Fair Trade Community of Practice Convenor, reflects upon recent research on fair trade. Link to her...
A presentation from the 2014 Conference where the University of Cambridge is used a case study to provide guidance and best practice on how to set up and implement a Living Lab.
The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence (GCCE) is an internationally leading academic facility for pioneering pure and applied green and sustainable chemical research.
LCF students were invited to showcase their design work, which uses plants from the College’s dye garden to colour cloth, at Chelsea Flower Show in May 2013
The £9.8M Centre for Global Eco-Innovation unites the expertise, resources and global contacts of Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, and Inventya Limited.
A job description and person specification for Dumfries and Galloway College's Research & Development Technician
A presentation from EAUC annual conference 2013 on how Macquarie University is embedding sustainability holistically across its undergraduate curriculum
Resources that were developed via the UNECE Expert Group in ESD in an attempt to provide a framework to assist educators to identify and develop competences (capabilities) in...
Future Factory provides comprehensive support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the East Midlands region to improve both sustainability and business strength.
EBRI Researchers have developed an innovative bioenergy solution - a Pyroformer™ - that uses waste products to generate cost-effective heat and power.
GreenCow GreenCow is a world-class, innovative facility designed to support world-leading research programmes to combat climate change. It measures GHG emissions in ruminants...
The SusTEACH project developed an innovative suite of online Sustainability Tools for the Environmental Appraisal of the Carbon Impacts of Higher Education (HE) Teaching Models.
Job description for the Waste and Recycling Assistant at Manchester Metropolitan University
Scotland’s universities and colleges have publicly declared their intention to address the challenges of climate change and reduce their carbon footprints by signing the...
Salford Energy House provides a platform for academics to collaborate with industry in the development of products to reduce the carbon emissions.
A university’s carbon brainprint of research, consultancy or teaching is an estimate of the change in carbon emissions from its known and predicted outcomes in practice.
Here are template documents from Institute of Cancer Research, to support to 2012 Conference workshop, The road to excellent operations is paved with internal environmental audits.
In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how the University of Sussex gained initiation and full support to their environmental policy.
‘Green Academy: Curricula for Tomorrow’ is a development of the Higher Education Academy’s (HEA) original Change Academy with a specific developmental focus on...
Intute Environment provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities.
The LGM HEFCE funded project, led by University of Nottingham, provided guidance to business schools on the integration and communication of social, economic and ecological...
A case study on Oxford University reducing energy use from out-of-hours working in research buildings
Ave Maria University has integrated all its IT and facilities management, including air conditioning, lighting, security cameras, fire alarms, electrical and building-access...
By investing in low energy PC and server systems, the research team has lowered the environmental impacts of their computational-intensive modelling
Following a successful first year in 2011/12, Green Gauge, previously known as the Environmental Research Package, from NUS Services was again available in 2012/13.
HEA-funded project on student attitudes towards, and skills in, sustainable development undertaken by NUS Services, StudentForce for Sustainability and the University of Bath
Notes from the UCU Sustainability workshop looking at the problems and successes of implementing the sustainable paradigm.