The Sustainability Champions Programme at the University is an opportunity for passionate students to take on an additional role alongside their degree programme to help promote sustainable change.

This year’s recruitment process has come to a successful close with over forty students from varying degree backgrounds signed up to the role. Student champions are organised into teams based upon their personal interests in environmental sustainability. These subject areas include nature, travel and transport, energy and carbon, sustainable food, reuse and recycling and our hedgehog champions.

The next stage for the programme is an induction which will outline our key aims for the academic year. Following this, students will break into their respective groups and begin to plan and deliver their own campaigns.

The Champions network extends to our eco-champions in the Faculty of Biology, Health and Medicine. These students have worked throughout October to deliver several events focused on reducing the environmental impact of Halloween as a celebration, demonstrating how the Champions programme is a vital mechanism in embedding sustainable thinking through community engagement and social practice.

• Find out how to become a Sustainability Champion.