Category Archives: Students
7 ways to make a sustainable start to the year
September 30, 2015
At Southampton, we bring our students and staff together to deliver ground-breaking and award winning sustainability initiatives. Hereâs seven ways you can play your part, starting today: Switch off â remember to switch off computers and lights when youâre not using them. Our annual Blackout event â run by more than 250 volunteers â highlights the […]
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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. Weâre running walking tours of Southampton and Winchester next weekend to help you get to know some of our studentsâ 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. âYea, why notâ were my initial thoughts⌠âŚAnd 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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Sabbatical Officer Sustainability Training
September 4, 2015
It is that time of year again, when the ever effective sustainability training of sabbatical officers takes place, and I am pleased to announce every Sabb (bar one- they will be trained in due course!) has âpassedâ their sustainability training! The aim of the session was to improve the Sabbsâ existing knowledge and understanding of […]
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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 studentsâ 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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My First Week in a Collective Cloud Brain
July 10, 2015
As an intern there were many thoughts which began to float around my head when I first began; What shall I wear? Will I be good enough? How does my boss like their coffee? There are also many tasks I thought I would be asked to do, for example; file, smile and make coffee. Of […]
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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 Studentsâ 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 yearâs activity and providing inspiration and ideas for action going forward. The parallel sessions were streamed to help people tailor […]
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