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The International Social Innovation Challenge: âEmpowering Women through Safer Communitiesâ
February 18, 2015
Guest blog by Josie Francis, University Social Enterprise Manager This summer, ten students from the University of Southampton will travel to India to take part in the International Social Innovation Challenge in Delhi. Accompanied by peers from OP Jindal Global University, India, and Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan, Southampton students will participate in an […]
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Southampton staff: win a 2015 Sustainability Action Award
February 9, 2015
The Sustainability Action Awards recognise staff at the University of Southampton making a difference, through your work or volunteering. If youâre giving of your spare time to volunteer at the university or in the community, then apply now for the 2015 awards. Launched in 2014, these annual awards are for students and staff, individuals and […]
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The University of Southampton Social Innovation Challenge Series: our first challenge and why weâre doing itÂ
December 16, 2014
Guest Blog by Pathik Pathak. A million older people havenât spoken to someone else in over a month. 500,000 older people will be alone at Christmas. Acute loneliness is as twice as deadly as obesity. It is as potent a cause of death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The headlines statistics are staggering. Athina […]
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Why you should apply for one of our internships
October 27, 2014
Sustainability Action is recruiting for three term-time internships in partnership with the Southampton Business Ethics and Environment Students (BEES) programme: Â BEES Volunteer Co-ordinator: develop your organisation skills and volunteer knowledge by working within the BEES team to promote volunteer opportunities, help with their training and support their work in organisations. BEES Communications Assistant: support the […]
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Sabbatical Officers Sustainability Workshop
August 20, 2014
On Monday 11th August I had the pleasure of running a Sustainability awareness workshop for the new Southampton Student Union Sabbatical team. The aim of the session was to enhance each Sabbs understanding of Sustainability so they could become experts and ambassadors for the student population. The workshop was a great success, and fantastic ideas were shared. […]
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What attracted me to the Sustainability Action internship programme?
July 25, 2014
What does sustainability mean to you? Sustainability is probably one of the most fashionable current buzzwords. Most of us will immediately conjure up images of everyday environmental issues – the most common of these being climate change, recycling, low energy use and general âgreennessâ. Indeed, these are very real issues which our generation faces. During […]
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Hundreds from the community survey biodiversity on campus
June 30, 2014
On the 13th and 14th June, the first ever Southampton BioBlitz welcomed over 100 people onto the Highfield Campus to explore local biodiversity. Local experts and university scientists helped nature lovers from around the city take part in the surveys and to understand local plant and wildlife. The event began with a bat walk on […]
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