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Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Sustainability Awards 2024: Nominations now closed

8 May 2024

Join Sustainable Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø in celebrating students and staff who are teaching, researching, and working towards a sustainable future at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø. Our 12th Annual Sustainability Awards Ceremony will take place on 24th July 2024. Nominations are now closed.

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Nominate staff, students, yourself and/or your team for one of our five Special Sustainability Awards. These are in addition to the Green Impact and LEAF awards which are given to Green Champions for completing the programmes.


We aim to celebrate a diverse range of sustainability activities that:

  • Empower students and staff to champion sustainability during their time at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø;
  • Embed sustainability into our operations including our planning, processes and culture;
  • Co-create debates and sustainable solutions through research and teaching;
  • Reward exceptional staff, students and groups who are contributing to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø's Sustainability Strategy.

Award categories

Staff Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability

This award is for an exceptional staff member at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø who has been leading environmental and/or social change at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

  • Embedding sustainability into departmental/faculty policies and core functions e.g. making events sustainable, creating a sustainability business plan, making departments vegetarian or paperless, ensuring labs are efficient, or enhancing green space across the institution;
  • Creating a network for sustainability students or staff to collaborate;
  • Putting on events to raise awareness around sustainability.
Student Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sustainability

°Õ³ó¾±²õÌýaward is for an exceptional student (undergraduate or postgraduate), who has been leading environmental and/or social change at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

  • ³§±ð³Ù³Ù¾±²Ô²µÌýup environmental or social societies;
  • ·¡³¾²ú±ð»å»å¾±²Ô²µÌýsustainability into the core functions of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø's student union, accommodation, department or student society;
  • °ä²¹³¾±è²¹¾±²µ²Ô¾±²Ô²µÌýor raising awareness of sustainability issues at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø or beyond;
  • ±Ê³Ü³Ù³Ù¾±²Ô²µÌýon a sustainability event e.g. conference/film/fair.
Sustainability Research Award

Sustainable Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø and the Office of the Vice Provost (Research, Innovation & Global Experience) would like to celebrate the research of staff and students (undergraduate or postgraduate), who have led to a positive outcome for the environment and society, at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø or beyond. This could be as part of a dissertation, PhD, research programme or a research initiative.

We are looking for examples of demonstrable impact which will be judged on the following basis:

  • ¶Ù±ð²µ°ù±ð±ðÌýof cross-disciplinary collaboration;
  • ±õ²Ô´Ú±ô³Ü±ð²Ô³¦±ðÌýon the wider research community at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø;
  • ·¡³æ³Ù±ð²Ô³ÙÌýto which the research proposes solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or other environmental or social challenges.

Examples of research topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Changing public policy;
  • New innovations in technology;
  • Changes in societal understanding/behaviour change;
  • Modifying/challenging industry practices.
Sustainability Impact Award

This category focuses on the work of teams and/or societies at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø, who have undertaken an environmental or social initiative, which contributes to the Signature Campaigns in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø’s Sustainability Strategy: Change Possible.

Initiatives can be directly linked to the three signature campaigns and below are some examples:

  • Wild Bloomsbury: Enhancing green spaces or biodiversity;
  • The Loop:  Improving recycling and reducing consumption (e.g. water, plastic, coffee cups, meat, fashion, paper);
  • Positive Climate: Energy saving initiatives;

Additionally, the team and/or society may have developed an initiative with a broader impact. Examples include, but are not limited to:

  •   Setting up environmental or social societies;
  •   Campaigning or raising awareness of sustainability issues at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø or beyond;
  •   Putting on a sustainability event e.g. conference/film/fair.
Sustainability Education Award

Sustainable Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø and the Office of the Vice Provost (Education & Student Experience) would like to celebrate staff or postgraduate students who have integrated sustainability into either the formal or informal curriculum. This could be through the development of academic or voluntary programmes or community involvement schemes.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

  • Developing a sustainability related module;
  • Integrating sustainability into modules across a programme;
  • Providing sustainability related participatory learning;
  • Facilitating sustainability related coursework or Living Lab projects Organising a sustainability induction for students.

Eligibility

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø staff and students (undergraduate or postgraduate), are eligible for the awards. Groups of students and/or staff working in a team or society can also be nominated. Self-nominations will also accepted.

°Õ´ÇÌýbe eligible for nomination, staff and students must be either employed by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø or registered as a student at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø, at the point of nomination, or have been employed by/registered with Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø within the academic year preceding the nomindation deadline date.


Deadline to nominate: Midnight, Thursday 20th June 2024

Please allow time to complete the form.

All nominees will be notified of their nomination and invited to the Sustainability Awards Ceremony on the 24th July. Nominators will also be informed and invited.


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Our panel of judges have strong sustainability experience and knowledge and represent our academic, professional services staff and student communities. Our judges for the 2024 awards will be announced shortly.


2023 winners

Read about last year's winners. 


Contact us

The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Sustainability Awards 2024 are organised by Sustainable Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø. If you wish to contact us for any reason, please email sustainableucl@ucl.ac.uk.