Not many universities have an on site farm. Harper Adams has used theirs to create a farm to fork university catering philosophy.
UEA’s food operation was making annual losses of £600,000 until a new catering head was hired. Disciplined management procedures have cut costs...
A decade ago the University of Reading’s catering service was losing £600k a year. But following a major re-organisation and refurbishment, the in-house operation...
In 2007 MMU’s catering department had a deficit of £780k. To reduce these losses and break even, a new employment model was introduced, along with an...
Lancaster University’s in-house food operation has gone from making a loss to generating a healthy profit, in just three years.
First in a new role at the University of Warwick, David has supported and championed projects, ideas and initiatives to improve the impact the University has on its environment
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...
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...
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”...
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...
S-Lab Project Coordinator, King’s College London Martin Farley has helped pioneer innovative projects in a largely untapped area of sustainability - laboratories. To...
For the fifth consecutive year, the National Union of Students has worked with the Higher Education Academy to ask students about their attitudes towards sustainable...
Sustainable Pedagogy incorporating 'social, economic, environmental and cultural' values, is central to Gwenllian’s role, in Higher Education; enabling students...
Janet Sanders, Energy Advisor, Aberystwyth University, emailed the EAUC Transport Community of Practice to ask how colleagues at other universities deal with the bikes left...
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...
A coalition of students, staff and local residents have come together under the Transition Town banner to undertake a range of sustainability projects tackling climate change...
Read the 2015 NUS/HEA reports on student and employer demand for sustainability. Executive summary of both reports available here.
The Green + Blue Space is the Union΄s hub for environmental engagement. Starting each semester with a buzzing home and kitchenware give away, it hosts a wide variety of...
South West Energy Centre (SWEC) is an award winning, unique facility providing advice, guidance and training to industry and consumers in all matters relating to the Low Carbon...
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...