Vincent’s roll is to provide tools, solutions and the attitude to make his students and colleagues conscious of how much impact, as individuals and as groups we all create...
Anja has been a one-girl volunteering legend at LSBU this year! She started off by becoming an LSBU Green Bean Society member and provided over 400 hours of volunteering time...
Director of Sustainability, University of Worcester Under Katy’s leadership the University of Worcester has developed and maintained an excellent performance profile,...
In the five years as Director of Sustainability Development at CCCU, Peter has been described, by an ex. colleague, as taking the institution from “zero to hero”...
S-Lab Project Coordinator, King’s College London Martin Farley has helped pioneer innovative projects in a largely untapped area of sustainability - laboratories. To...
Alex has embarked on a mission, to converge a place of flourishing learning with being an ‘Edible Campus’. With no formal pedagogical role, he is teaching staff and...
Dr Aled Jones is the inaugural Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) at Anglia Ruskin University. Over the past four years he has built the GSI from a good idea...
Rosemary has gone beyond her core role around operational sustainability at London College of Fashion. She is the first person in the role and has quickly developed...
Nicola’s “green wins” since starting at Goldsmiths in September of 2012 include reaching the gold standard in Green Impact for the Estates & Facilities...
Luci believes that to stimulate genuine and lasting change people need to experience how their actions make a difference. Recognising that future leadership demands confident...
Sustainable Pedagogy incorporating 'social, economic, environmental and cultural' values, is central to Gwenllian’s role, in Higher Education; enabling students...
An Inspired Education The Institute of Sustainable Practice, Innovation and Resource Effectiveness (INSPIRE) is a virtual institute, which provides a focus for sustainable...
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, to...
Creative Energy Homes: Low-Energy and Zero-Carbon Housing – a living test-site for energy efficient technologies A long-term development of seven “Creative Energy...
In line with EfSD goals, the newly developed course Interactions with the Environment encouraged students to advocate for the world in light of the Anthropocen
The ‘Raising the Baseline’ project has taken a systematic, consultative and target-led approach to deliver a coherent and comprehensive offer of ESD across the...
Ten, cross disciplinary Discovery Themes have been developed to ensure all students from across the University have access to core knowledge and skills which underpin the Leeds...
Green Guild started in October 2013 encompassing a wide range of initiatives for embedding sustainability across the University community. Three interrelated themes of...
This HEFCE supported project demonstrates the capacity for students to contribute to transforming the city in which they are studying.
Since 2012, the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge has been developing LED lighting capable of growing a wide range of plants under controlled...
For a very small financial input the UCLan Student Union Student Bursaries have had a far reaching and long term impact on sustainability here at UCLan, transforming packaging,...
Cycling 4 All uses disabled student engagement as an entry point to sustainability using a social learning model.
London College of Fashion partnered with Cordwainers Community Garden and artist Zoe Burt to grow and manufacture an item of clothing entirely within London.
Learn Act Engage Create is the journey through which students are engaged in sustainability during their time at University of Bristol
UAL is the first University to achieve Gold accreditation for the Soil Association’s ‘Food for Life’ certification scheme. This has challenged the University...
The University of Reading’s Making Beer Green Initiative is specifically focussed on improving the sustainability of its seven bar operations spread across seven sites.
Through the development of a sustainable framework, which supports both education and learning, the University has undertaken a number of pieces of work towards this,...
Dr Jane Davidson established INSPIRE in 2012 to lead a system-based approach throughout UWTSD to deliver educational pathways promoting learning, environmental and social...
Frances Corner has been Head of London College of Fashion since 2005. Throughout this time she has worked to embed the importance of using education to transform lives across...
The Futures Initiative (FI) mission is to enhance academic staff knowledge, skills and experience in sustainability education to breed leadership in curriculum change
Through Professor Jeremy Sanders’ inspirational leadership, the University of Cambridge’s approach to embedding sustainability into the institution’s thinking,...
Laboratories are places where innovative research takes place and where global challenges are solved. But laboratories have a big environmental impact in terms of energy, water...
In the past decade, The University of Dundee has seen a lot of redevelopment taking place on campus. Green space has been created right at its heart with the new Campus Green, a...
The WaterHub on Emory University’s campus in Atlanta, Georgia is an on-site water recycling system, utilising ecological systems to reclaim wastewater for heating and...
Through implementing a comprehensive water management plan the University has reduced its water consumption by 20%; enough water to fully hydrate (8 glasses a day) our 30,000...
With a 10 year construction programme about to start, UCL took a new approach to managing deliveries on its heavily constrained Bloomsbury campus
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...
Over the past academic year, the University of Brighton has focused its efforts on tackling food waste in campus restaurants.
Lancaster University leads the HE sector in respect of its integrated, cutting edge sustainable food projects such as ‘Edible Campus’. Together, Lancaster...
Aberystwyth University is one of only a handful of universities in the UK where 30 – 40% of food spend in the University’s cafes and outlets is either sourced locally or...
At UWTSD enabling people to connect with one another is central to our institutional mission to reinvent productivity and help staff and students make the most of every moment...
University of Reading was getting more and more waste toiletries from the guest bedrooms with no way of being able to recycle or give them away and this was known to be a...
In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how Cardiff Metropolitan University is aiming to manage its operations in ways that are environmentally sustainable, economically feasible and...
The University of Leeds is responsive to the needs of its stakeholders and wider community. They asked the University to make a more positive impact on society
DESIGN+MAKE was a collaborative pilot project with the charity Art Against Knives. It engaged hard to reach young people (18-24) that were potential victims or perpetrators of...
The sensitive and beautiful restoration of historic Drake’s Place Gardens and Reservoir, and development of related activities, has been undertaken with - rather than for...
This is a campaign that encourages students at the end of the year to donate their unwanted items - promoting a reuse ethos and creating lasting partnerships across...
The project undertook demonstrations of off-grid options using solar PV-based mini/ micro grid systems at four locations in India.
In order to bring all of Durham University’s environmental initiatives and activities together, the name and concept of ‘Greenspace’ was devised in 2010....
Since 2007 the university has been addressing sustainability across the whole institution; sustainability is cited in the Strategic Plan as a core value of the University.