What you can do

Want to develop skills in sustainability, get professional accredited training. There are a range of opportunities:

Learn more about environmental issues and sustainable good practice
Work within a tangible framework to implement change
Professional support as you make changes
Recognition both within the university, locally and nationally for your efforts
Insight into what staff, the City Council and other universities and colleges are doing
Develop communication skills with staff and students
The opportunity to support the Student Union and the University’s sustainability agenda

Students

Students can join the thriving Environment and Conservations society, People and Planet group, or the Green Events team, volunteer with the sustainability department or do a work placement module based in the department. Talk to Rory Dimond, the Part Time Students' Union Sustainability Officer, for more information.

The University's 2012 Go Green Week was a huge success with the Sustainability department working alongside the Students' Union Environmental & Conservation Society and the Go Green Events Committee. Read the review of the week for the full story.