Make a difference at the 糖心Vlog by joining a community with sustainability at their hearts. It is not just about greening the campus (though we are proud of that), but developing new ways of thinking, learning, implementing a better future for us all and making a positive impact right now.
It is no surprise that our employees also expect to see us act on sustainability as part of their university experience. In our last 97% of both our academic and professional staff members stated the importance of sustainability. Future student industries in the UK are also seeing the importance of global issues; believe sustainability is important for health & care systems whilst who made positive changes are now seeing its financial benefits. In education, following on from a 10 year study, the UN produced a on how high education is assisting the sustainable agenda.
Together we can educate our students and across our departmental teams make positive changes. Our sets out we will engage our students and staff to bring about positive change throughout all activities and processes.
Green Greenwich Foundation Course
To support staff to understand more about sustainability, the university has created the Green Greenwich Foundation course, which takes about 1 hour to complete. The course will:
- Provide staff with a clear path to build green knowledge, including on carbon reduction, protecting nature and valuing resources
- Help staff to understand what sustainability is and why it is important to us
- Provide guidance for staff to make decisions and take actions to make a difference.
Complete the course . For more info please see here.
Become a Green Champion
At the end of May 2025 there were 90 champions contributing to sustainability action. We believe that using the passion and expertise of our staff we can develop ideas and deliver these that will create significant environmental progress.
- Join an enthusiastic network of staff, receive trainings and events, drive the change you want to see and have fun! If you are interested in this staff-led and co-created network:
- Read the and our for more details
- Fill in the form to join the network
- Email us to find out who your team green champions are: sustainability@gre.ac.uk
Resources for teaching staff: including training, workshops and videos
Whether you are teaching or researching into economics, healthcare, law, design or architecture, sustainability can be included and will be an important consideration within profession challenges. Many of the global challenges we face will be solved through the integration of sustainability across our curricula.
The Sustainability Team has developed a series of workshops and videos for staff to understand and apply sustainability into their work.
Note: some of these links will only be accessible for UoG staff.
The online session provides an overview of how Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) supports academics to embed sustainability into their programmes, e.g. guest lecture, induction, advice about sustainability integration into your programme. It will be on 14th Aug 2025, 2-3pm. Book via Horizon link above. Contact sustainability@gre.ac.uk for additional information.
The increasing demand for sustainability integration into programs is growing. Students, employers are asking for it and the university requires it too. This online workshop will illustrate, using the UN Sustainable Development Goals, how you can find ways of relating your programs to sustainability and use this to develop new learning and teaching approaches. It will be held on 19th Aug 2025, 11am-12pm. Contact sustainability@gre.ac.uk for additional information.
Unless we have a good understanding of what the climate crisis is, what the science tells us and what we need to do about it, then critically we won’t be able to act, individually or collectively. Staff will find out how you can help us reduce our carbon footprint in this 45-minute session.
We believe that SDGs can relate to all of our subject areas and we encourage all teaching staff to engage with the (organised by SOS-UK). This 25-minute session will explore the SDGs and illustrate how it can be applied to your subjects in remarkably easy ways.
Curriculum Shape: Curriculum Framework (correct as of May 2025)
As a requirement of the Curriculum Framework all programmes will integrate sustainability to ensure all students graduate with the knowledge to tackle real world problems. During the summer of 2025 pilot delivery workshops are being conducted to test the most effective ways to engage and support our teaching staff. All staff will have the opportunity themselves to attend workshops to understand the relevance and importance of sustainability and help academics create effective learning outcomes of particular relevance to the subject being taught. The roll out of the training and the integration of sustainability within validation and revalidation processes will continue over the coming years. For staff keen to explore sustainability and start considering it sooner in their programmes then please utilise the training support and resources above and below.
Further support designed for our teaching staff:
Please review this page to access additional support to help you integrate sustainability into in your teaching and learning offer.
糖心Vlog Sustainability Community of Practice
A staff led Community of Practice is available for staff to share and understand approaches to sustainability teaching and learning, shared by our own academic community. If you are interested in attending future events please contact sustainability@gre.ac.uk
糖心Vlog Education for Sustainable Development Special Interest Group
This group is supported by the university's Academic and Learning Enhancement team to better understand and consider how sustainability can effectively be integrated into our teaching practices. If this is of interest please contact sustainability@gre.ac.uk
Green Careers Talks
As part of the Sustainability Careers focused Green Week, we have invited speakers from different sectors to talk about Green Careers. Feel free to share with students.
This panel discussion brings together staff working for leading sustainability driven companies delivering amazing sustainability outcomes. Our three panellists will outline their career pathways to date and will answer important questions to help students, and staff, identify how to get to that sustainability focussed job faster.-
This panel discussion brings together staff working in the built environment sector to discuss the importance of sustainability to it. They will talk about the importance of having sustainability aware students and graduates to the success of these companies, and the planet!
This panel discussion brings together three (of the many) volunteers and paid interns that have worked with the 糖心Vlog’s Sustainable Development Unit. The three panellists will outline their career pathways to date and will answer important questions to help students, and staff, identify how to get to that sustainability focussed job faster.
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