Category Archives: Staff
Live My City
September 22, 2015
Guest blog by Sam Bailey, SUSU VP Welfare Moving away from home is pretty exciting, there are new friends to meet, activities to try out and an entirely new city to explore. We’re running walking tours of Southampton and Winchester next weekend to help you get to know some of our students’ favourite places around […]
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A Postcard from Bristol
September 11, 2015
Week Eleven on the Sustainability Action Internship: attend and present at an International Conference. ‘Yea, why not’ were my initial thoughts… …And I am very glad they were! On Monday 7th September I (along with my supervisors) took the early morning train up to Bristol, which gave me an insight to the life […]
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What is WEEE?
September 9, 2015
Guest blog by Carolyn Couch, Waste & Recycling Manager at the University When I mention WEEE I sometimes get a strange look from those that are not involved in managing waste. However it is becoming better known that WEEE is the acronym for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and that there are laws to […]
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Uplifting Ideas and the Joy of the Internet
August 21, 2015
Learning from an intern sounds a bit backwards, does it not? Especially after always having thought it would be the other way round. Yet for some reason, it is not the case on this internship. Although it does not also mean that the intern does the ordering of the supervisor. For one this internship builds […]
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Food For Thought
July 31, 2015
As I move into the fifth week of my internship, I have truly begun to see how sustainability can really implement itself across whole faculties! One of my tasks has been to engage with the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) practice and to start implementing it throughout the curriculum here at the University of Southampton. […]
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Conference: Students and Businesses Transforming their City
July 15, 2015
Register now for a free one-day conference on Tuesday 15th September to be inspired and equipped to deliver sustainability projects and solutions. Throughout the day we will explore how universities and students’ unions can foster a partnership approach to sustainability and the positive impacts such collaborations achieve – empowering students for action, benefiting the local community, and improving […]
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A year of sustainability action
July 2, 2015
2014/15 has been a busy year of action for sustainability at Southampton! Hundreds of students and staff have been involved in a diverse range of activities including: Joining with 250 people to switch off office equipment left on unnecessarily across four different campuses (in return for free hoodies and pizza!) at the Southampton Blackout. Free […]
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Southampton gets its own Bright Club
June 29, 2015
Guest blog by Duncan Parker from the Bright Club Southampton team. Bright Club is coming to Southampton on 26th July! Bright Club started at University College London as an experiment 6 years ago with the idea of putting comedians and researchers from universities together on a single stage. Bright Club is a great chance to let people […]
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NUS Sustainability Roundtable: celebrating progress, spurring on to more
June 22, 2015
On the 18th June around 100 students and Students’ Union and university staff gathered in Manchester for the annual NUS Sustainability Programmes Roundtable. Simon Kemp and I were able to join this day celebrating a year’s activity and providing inspiration and ideas for action going forward. The parallel sessions were streamed to help people tailor […]
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Swapping throwaway-consumption for second-hand
April 17, 2015
On the 19th March Southampton Swap Shop returned to the Cube. Every year hundreds of students and staff donate unwanted clothes, shoes and accessories, swapping them for new (to them!) items at Swap Shop. This time over 450 items of men’s, women’s and children’s clothes and accessories (weighing a grand total of 140 kg) were saved […]
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