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Sustainability 2016 Review

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The Millpond on our Chelmsford campus

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Sustainability at ARU

Foreword from Prof Eamon Strain Pro Vice Chancellor for Sustainability

At Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) we’re proud of our commitment to sustainability. In this document we showcase the incredible work that both students and staff have done to ensure that ‘We will always ask about the long term’ (ARU Sustainability Strategy 2016–20).

As a University we are distinctive in our approach

to sustainability and in creating sustainability-aware

students who will graduate better prepared for the

world. As our students are the leaders of tomorrow, we

have a responsibility to equip them with the knowledge,

experience, skills and values they need to inform them

as they create a better and more sustainable future. We

also believe that this will make our students distinctive,

giving them an advantage in their careers, enabling them

to perform better in the work place, be desirable to future

employers and live fulfilling and prosperous lives.

To achieve these goals, sustainability features significantly

in our Corporate Plan which includes a pledge to

incorporate sustainability in every aspect of our students’

university experience – from the formal and informal

curriculum, to student life and activities. ‘Concern for

the Environment’ is one of our core University values.

Over the years, we have won a number of awards for

our sustainability work. In 2012 we received a Wildlife

Trusts Living Landscape Award for the restoration of a

polluted millpond on our Chelmsford campus. In 2013,

we won the International Sustainable Campus Network

Award for our work integrating sustainably throughout

our University. In 2013 we were awarded £1 million from

the HEFCE Revolving Green Fund for a Combined Heat

and Power plant on the Cambridge Campus. In 2014

we were awarded the Green Apple Award for our new

Young Street Health Building. In 2016, the year of the

Rio Olympics, we have received our own ‘Golds’ for our

Students’ Union’s efforts in Green Impact, achieved a

University wide Responsible Futures accreditation and

have been shortlisted as Sustainable Business of the Year

for the 2017 edie awards.

We aim to be leaders of sustainability in Higher Education,

driving innovation and change, through our curriculum,

research, estate and our students.

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Our StrategyIn 2016, with the help of representatives from the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI), Education for Sustainability (EfS),

the Environment Team, the Chaplaincy and the Students’ Union, we launched our first ever Sustainability Strategy

(2016–20). This strategy was the culmination of many years work to bring sustainability to the forefront of everything

that we do here at ARU. The creation of this ground-breaking strategy ensures that sustainability is a priority and that it

is embedded permanently into our culture.

The Sustainability Strategy focuses on 5 goals. As a guide, we have included a colour in each section to demonstrate

how it fits in to our Sustainability Strategy. To see the full strategy with milestones visit: www.anglia.ac.uk/sustainability

Goal 1: Our Curriculum

We will be known for our integration of sustainability values

into our core curriculum delivery.

Goal 2: Our Student Community

We will encourage our student body to learn and develop their

understanding of sustainability, so as to support them in adopting a

sustainable lifestyle and to create future leaders in sustainability.

Goal 4: Our Physical Environment

We will develop attractive, vibrant and efficient campuses

that showcase our commitment and expertise in sustainability.

Goal 5: Our Culture and Entrepreneurial Nature

We will embed our commitment to the enhancement of

environmental, social, cultural and economic wellbeing in our own

culture, and will support a culture change in our partners through

dialogue and engagement.

Goal 3: Our Research

We will increase our research output related to sustainability,

both in quality and volume, so as to support future

submissions under the Research Excellence Framework.

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Our Curriculum

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Sustainability at ARUStudent volunteers at the 2016 Sustainable Sainji

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Dr Alison Greig Director of Education for Sustainability

Education for Sustainability (EfS) is fundamentally about creating a future that is fair, safe and long-lasting through the provision of knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that reflect care, concern and responsibility for others and for the environment. It is about empowering students to use their degree for a better and more prosperous world, not only doing things better but doing better things – something that can only be done by thinking and acting in new and innovative ways.

In learning to address the complex and messy problems

that characterise the world’s most pressing sustainability

challenges, EfS also helps students to gain skills that

employers are increasingly recognising as essential for

the success of their businesses. Futures thinking and the

ability to deal with uncertainty, volatility, complexity and

ambiguity (VUCA) are skills that differentiate sustainability

literate graduates and enhance their employability.

EfS is also about providing high quality education that

engages students and drives innovation in the classroom

– the Higher Education Funding Council for England

(HEFCE) describes EfS pedagogy simply as ‘good

pedagogy’. We use our flagship MSc Sustainability as

a demonstrator of innovation in learning and teaching

that can be rolled out more widely throughout ARU. This

course, which was shortlisted for an EAUC Green Gown

award in its first year of operation, has been described by

our external examiner as ‘ground-breaking’.

Through our work, we have found that aspects of

sustainability are often already included in many of our

courses but not identified as such, either by staff or

students. Our EfS team provides support and guidance

for staff to ensure that where these links are already

present, they are made explicit and where they are not

yet present they are included. For each Department and

Faculty we have created an extensive set of resources,

from journal articles to YouTube clips that staff can use

for their teaching, in seminars, assignments or even just

to further expertise. We also offer workshop sessions

for staff to enhance their understanding of sustainability

and how it links to their students. Staff can also apply

for our grants, which we make available annually to

fund teaching projects that develop and enhance the

sustainability literacy of their students.

Our work is research led. We are part of national and

international networks such as the Higher Education

Green Change Academy, the Global Universities

Partnership on Environment for Sustainability and the

International Sustainable Campus Network and regularly

present at national and international workshops and

conferences on our work and ideas. In addition, EfS is a

research strand within our Global Sustainability Institute;

staff regularly present at national and international

sustainability conferences to help shape education policy.

Through the accumulation of all of this work, EfS at

ARU is making real positive change for the future and

becoming nationally and internationally recognised for

its contribution.

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Be the Change grants The sustainability team offer grants of up to £1000 annually to teaching staff as part of their ‘Be the Change’ grant scheme. The purpose of the grants is to act as a catalyst for staff to develop and test innovative ways to embed EfS within their curriculum.

Winners: Academic year 2014/2015

Engineering and the Built EnvironmentA ‘Be the Change’ grant was awarded to the department

of Engineering and the Built Environment to take

students away on a summer research project to the

Centre of Alternative Technology (CAT), in Wales.

The idea behind this trip came from the belief that the

construction industry has a duty to look at environmental

implications in their work and that architects play a

pivotal role in this as they are directly responsible for the

conception of sustainable principals, therefore they must

be educated from the beginning in order to challenge

and change the construction industry.

Through CAT’s ‘hands on’ approach to learning, where

students not only had the opportunity to watch lectures

but also put into practice their learning by applying it

to real design case studies, students were given the

opportunity to develop and learn new ways to live

sustainably and explore new and innovative ideas about

sustainable construction.

Early Childhood StudiesTeaching staff from the department of Early Childhood

Studies were awarded a ‘Be the Change’ grant to attend

the ‘Early Education’ annual conference. The aim of

attending this conference was to expand their knowledge

of how to embed sustainability into Early Childhood

Studies and ensure that they had new and innovative

ways to teach students about the importance of

sustainability in this field.

Paulette Luff, one of the team members who applied for

the grant said: “We had the opportunity to hear speakers

who are the leading writers on this topic in our field and

to meet and share ideas with colleagues in our subject

area. This provided the stimulus for Welcome Week

activities and inspiration for mapping EfS through our

modules at every level. The process of applying for and

claiming the grant was straightforward and the additional

funding for our professional development in EfS was

appreciated.”

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Winners: Academic year 2015/2016

PsychologyMembers of the Psychology department successfully

bid for a grant to help them with their ‘Lived Experience

Project.’ The LEP aims to grow students’ understanding

of mental health issues by giving them access to hear

first-hand from people with experience of dealing with

mental health issues and also from people with insight

into treatment and recovery.

By successfully bidding for funding from the ‘Be the

Change’ grant, the department will now host guest

speakers who can give students valuable insight in to

mental health issues. The hope behind this project is

that by hosting such talks, students will be more able to

be empathic and understanding of people with mental

health issues. There are also plans to hold a public

awareness workshop and a plan to hold future large-scale

events aimed at increasing public awareness of mental

health issues in an attempt to break down some of the

stigmas and barriers that people with mental health

issues often have to face in our society.

Jonathan Totman, part of the team who applied for the

grant said: “Applying for the grant has encouraged us to

think carefully about how we can promote sustainability

within the curriculum more generally, and we are

grateful to the GSI for their support and inspiration. We

are excited about the opportunities the grant will afford

and we are underway planning guest speaker events

and opportunities to involve service-users in student

research.”

Human Resources Management Lecturers from Business and Human Resource

Management successfully received funding from the

‘Be the Change’ grant with their bid to hire a student

research assistant to conduct an audit of the course to

see how sustainability is already being implemented. The

findings from this audit will serve as a tool to inform and

support the ongoing embedding of EfS within the Human

Resource Management course.

Caroline Rook, part of the team that secured the grant,

had this to say: “We found the process easy to navigate

and appreciate the support we received from Alison and

Grace [the EfS team]. The GSI grant helped us to apply

for funding for a larger ARU LTP. We will explore how

the BSc Business and HRM course supports developing

future responsible leadership in the area of Personnel and

Development.”

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MSc Sustainability with the Eden ProjectThe MSc Sustainability is run by the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) as a partnership with the internationally renowned Eden Project. In this course students learn first-hand from sustainability researchers, experience inspirational practitioners and are supported in applying their new skills and knowledge through a work placement.

The course is open to UK, European and overseas

graduates from all disciplines and prepares students

to act as a catalyst to inspire and bring about change

towards sustainability.

What are students saying about our MSc Sustainability?“I love this MSc course as it has given me everything I need to take with me to carry out sustainability in this world that needs to change desperately in a completely holistic way, which other MSc programmes in this subject do not offer. I am so glad I chose this course, I had the best of all worlds. I was able to carry on working at my job, study at my own pace part-time at a distance but also have the benefit of hands on teaching at five residentials.”E.I., 2016

“The MSc Sustainability has given me the opportunity to meet like-minded people with different backgrounds and experiences, meaning we all contribute something unique to the course and complement each others’ learning experiences.” Victoria, 2017

“(after graduating) I was offered a job delivering community engagement and behaviour change at the organisation where I did my work placement. (It) is fantastic to put in to practice what I leaned on the course.” Jennie, 2015

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So What? So What? is published twice a year by the GSI. It aims to highlight the University’s activities related to sustainability in research and education. Previous editions have covered themes from food, water and energy security, politics of decision making on climate change, the importance of gender equality, and the difficulties associated with predicting the future.

The magazine is disseminated widely across our campuses

to staff and students, as well as external events like seminars

and conferences. Also available online, So What? is one of

the key ways that sustainability research is communicated,

helping increase the visibility of the research institute and

other sustainability initiatives across our University.

Talking about the publication, EfS Co-ordinator and

editor of So What?, Grace Philip says: “So What? is a great

resource and engagement tool to take with me when I

go and talk to staff and students about sustainability. By

presenting our research and activities in a way that can be

easily understood through inclusive and open language,

people can appreciate how our research relates to their

lives, both at ARU and beyond. Plus, it’s a good read when

waiting for your next lecture!”

Big Pitch 2016: Super-Sustainable First Prize The Big Pitch is an annual competition run by our Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR). Students are invited to pitch their own entrepreneurial business ideas and compete to win funding to begin their own business.

Lucy Tushingham, a third-year interior design student, was

awarded first prize this year for her pitch entitled, ’Forgotten

Spaces, Lost Faces’. Lucy’s project seeks to develop flexible

and durable flat-packed emergency accommodation, which

she envisages will help people who are homeless, victims of

natural disasters and refugees. As well as the £10,000 first

prize, Lucy’s project received an extra £3,000 offered by

Provide, a health and social care provider, in recognition that

it’s an innovative solution to a social problem.

Lucy had this to say about her experience: “The Big Pitch

has given me more than I ever thought it could. The

mentoring and effort that this competition provides to

students to help them to succeed is amazing. This has

been one of the best experiences in my life. I’m really

excited about where this is going to take me.”

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Seminars & WorkshopsAt ARU, we hold the thorough belief that learning doesn’t stop in the classroom, that’s why we encourage all departments, staff and students to organise their own seminars and workshops. We believe this gives staff, students and members of the public the opportunity to further develop skills and understanding of topics such as sustainability.

Bringing together energy and waterThis seminar looked at the ways in which energy and

water are intrinsically linked. The seminar focused on how

failures in one sector can induce a cascade of failures in

the other and how, likewise, any innovation in one field

can create efficiency gains in the other because they are

so intrinsically linked. The Seminar was an opportunity

to introduce the recently launched EU funded Energy in

Water (EnW) project and demonstrate initial attempts to

map the interconnections, opportunities and challenges

of this emergent sector, commonly referred to as the

energy-water nexus. The seminar gave an opportunity to

audience members to be interactive and to contribute to

the direction of the project.

Change AgencyLaurie Michaelis spoke about the challenges we face as

individuals and as an overall society when we try to make

our lives more sustainable. The seminar concentrated

on how we deal with clashes in worldviews, different

aims and plans. Laurie addressed these questions

using psychological and sociological theories, as well

as their experiences with Living Witness (Quaker

sustainability charity) and writing reports for the IPCC

(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

How to change the worldIn ‘How to change the world’ students were given the

opportunity to learn valuable campaign skills that they

could add to their CVs and increase their employability.

The event aimed to teach students about how to

campaign effectively, how to influence different people

and give them transferable skills through learning key

tips and tricks of the trade. Following the event, attendees

were presented with certificates to mark their training.

Sustainability in performing artsIn a recent case study about the role of EfS in performing

arts, which was based on interviews with both staff and

students at various universities, it was found that many

misunderstood the term, ‘sustainability’. The detrimental

impact of this was discussed at this seminar and

participants explored how people working in performing

arts could actually have a far and wide reaching

contribution to sustainability. Through their potential

to have a profound impact over the cultural values and

attitudes of an audience, as well as the carbon footprint of

their company, performing arts has a huge opportunity to

play the role of ‘change maker’.

Environmentalism can only be solved through feminism: Open debateThree of our student led societies (ARU Feminist Society,

Greenpeace Society and ARU Debate Society) came

together to host a talk from Susan Buckingham, Professor

at Brunel University and feminist geographer, whose main

focus is on gender and environmental issues. Following

the talk from Buckingham, the floor was opened up to a

debate to discuss the statement: ‘Environmentalism can

only be solved through feminism’. The debate explored

ecofeminism and the belief that the destruction of our

environment and the oppression of women in our society

is intrinsically linked.

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A world without rape is possible!Colleen Moore, Deputy Head of Humanities & Social

Sciences, teamed up with a local Cambridge charity

called Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre (CRCC) to bring

together students and a host of guest speakers to discuss

how we can act more responsibly to ensure that we see

a future in which rape no longer exists. Dr Maddy Coy,

Deputy Director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies

Unit at London Metropolitan University, provided the

keynote address in which she spoke of how we need to

be more vigilant and responsible of our consumption,

especially our consumption of media. She discussed how

it can alter people’s views on issues such as consent and

how women are viewed in our society. Students were

then challenged to question themselves about their own

actions as well as their views and why they held those

beliefs. The aim of the seminar was to empower students

to understand the reasons why rape and rape-culture

exist, and how they can act more responsible to ensure a

more peaceful future where rape no longer exists.

Sustainable Sainji Sustainable Sainji, led by Dr Alison Greig, Director of EfS, is the newest addition to Anglia Ruskin’s already impressive International Community Experience Programme, run by the University Chaplaincy. It is distinctive in that it aims to use volunteer’s degree skills and experience for the benefit of local communities and is linked with the sustainability learning research being undertaken in the GSI. Sustainable Sainji addresses the Sustainable Development Goal of Quality Education, helping ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promoting lifelong learning.

Sainji is a typical rural village in the Himalayan foothills

in north-west India but untypically has an inspirational

not for profit school, the Garhwal English Medium

School (GEMS), which is trying to provide a high quality

education for poor village children. The inaugural visit

took place in August 2016 and student volunteers worked

on a number of projects related to improving the health

and education of children and adults in Sainji and the

surrounding villages. This included helping teachers

at the school prepare lesson plans and demonstrate

examples of interactive teaching, encouraging children to

wash their hands and building ‘tippy-taps’ they can use in

their family cow sheds. They also trained the children in

basic first aid and did demonstrations in the village.

The volunteers also learned a huge amount from the

programme, as some of them describe below.

“Whilst in Sainji we got involved in a number of different activities…. By doing these we were not just making a positive difference to the community, we ourselves were learning too.”

“I certainly did things outside my comfort zone and learnt that anything is possible. I have learnt to be more self-confident and have improved my skills in communication (and my confidence in Hindi) and team work.”

“On top of this teaching and learning, there were a lot of things to be amazed by – the natural beauty of Sainji and neighbouring villages, the hospitality from the hosts and villagers, the enthusiasm and cheerfulness of the students and the inspiring stories of our hosts Lori and Kunwar.“

“Sustainable Sainji 2016 has been a rewarding experience and the personal sense of accomplishment from this experience has motivated me to do more good to others and the community.”

“It’s just the best thing I have ever done”

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Responsible FuturesIn 2016 we signed up to NUS’s ‘Responsible Futures’ (RF) accreditation – RF works with universities to embed sustainability into the curriculum. The way RF works is that our institution and our Students’ Union create a partnership, working together through a whole heap of criteria that eventually leads to earning an accreditation mark that demonstrates real action on EfS at a systemic level.

Recently, to coincide with this work, EfS launched a

student survey to find out more about our students’

attitudes and experiences related to sustainability and

whether they recognise it as being a part of the learning

experience on their course.

We asked our students what they thought our University

should be preparing them for. Tremendously, 93% of

our students responded positively when asked if they

thought universities should prepare them for the future

job market, as opposed to 76% who expressed concern

for a highly paid job. This indicates that students at ARU

feel less strongly about earning more money in the

immediate future than whether or not they will have

long term job security.

I want a University which…

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Prepares me forfuture job market

Prepares me for aHighly paid job

Prepares me fora fulfilling and interesting job

Prepares me for the wider challenges

of a happy and fulfilling life

Prepares me to act as a responsible

citizen, locally and globally

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The survey also questioned students on how highly they

value the opportunity to work for an ethical company.

Over half of our students indicated that they would be

willing to take £1,000 below the national average salary

(£20,000 per annum) in order to work for a company

with a positive environmental and social record. The

same question was also asked about a slightly higher

figure, £3,000, and only 8% of students changed their

minds. This result shows that our students are also

concerned about the type of company that they will be

employed by.

Within this survey, we took the opportunity to see which

of the goals from our Sustainability Strategy (2016-20) our

students prioritise the most, by asking them what they

believe ARU should be doing. With a positive response of

95%, our students told us that they wanted ARU to “teach

skills that will be relevant for the future”. This indicates

that our students really value and prioritise EfS. The result

for “teaching skills that will be relevant for the future”, was

closely followed by recycling, meaning that our students

also recognise the importance of our estates team that

takes responsibility for waste management.

Students were also asked how relevant they felt

sustainability is to themselves and their lives, how relevant

they felt they were to their course, and whether they felt

that those issues had been included in their course. This

was done by splitting sustainability into four themes – the

table below shows those that responded positively:

Relevant to your life in next 5–10 years

Has been included in your course?

Is relevant for your course

Social justice issues

76 51 67

The rights of future generations

82 42 64

Environmental challenges, including climate change

79 40 60

Conflict and peace

80 36 60

On average per theme, 22.5% of our students recognised

that sustainability is relevant to their course but said that

it not been covered, despite our academic regulations

that state that sustainability should be featured in every

course. Evidently this is something that requires our

attention, especially when we consider that one of the

milestones listed in our Sustainability Strategy sets an

ambitious goal for 75% of students recognising that

sustainability has been featured as part of their course.

With the responses from the survey in mind, it is clear

that our students feel our University should prepare

them for a responsible future that is synonymous with

sustainability, demonstrating a demand for EfS.

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Our Research

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Prof Aled Jones Director of the Global Sustainability Institute

Anglia has a long history of sustainability research.

Across each of the faculties, academics have research

outputs in areas such as ethics, business practice,

behaviour change, technology and health. Research

groups such as the Animal and Environmental Research

Group in the department of Life Sciences or the Built

Environment Research Group in Engineering have

engaged in large European projects and seen significant

impact as a result of their endeavours. In the Business

School many academics have looked at various

aspects of sustainability through the research lens

whether exploring management practice, economics

or the evolution of sustainability ideas through a social

anthropology perspective. In Arts, Law and Social

Sciences academics have explored the cultural context

of sustainability through photography and equality and

diversity in public services.

The Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) was established by

ARU in 2011 as part of its commitment to sustainability. It

is a University-wide body that spans a broad portfolio of

areas and interests related to sustainability. We recognise

that delivering sustainability requires an integrated view

of the world and, above all, see our main role as helping

develop practical solutions and understanding of the

challenges of sustainability. Therefore, our research is

focussed on change, working closely with those who

implement sustainability action. This involves developing

partnerships across academic disciplines within our

University and beyond, and with leaders in business,

media, civil society organisations and government.

The GSI is now a high profile research institute that has

grown rapidly since its formation. Significantly the GSI has

won research contracts from the European Commission

(FP7 and H2020) and five of the seven UK research

councils (AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, NERC and BBSRC). It has

been involved in bids worth well in excess of £20 million

in total, won over £3 million in external income for the

University and has a forward pipeline of projects for the

next 4 years.

In 2016 the GSI became part of the latest ESRC Centre of

Excellence, a £6 million investment over 5 years. Led by

the University of Surrey, the Centre for the Understanding

of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) is a multi-disciplinary

institute spanning a number of universities. At the same

time we also launched two European projects – the

COSME Energy and Water consortia and the large

MEDEAS energy transition project. For the 2014 Research

Excellence Framework (REF) the GSI supported two Unit

of Assessment (UoA) submissions (UoA 17 and UoA 16).

To build partnerships and brand awareness the GSI

organises and co-hosts conferences. The second GSI

conference in 2015 focussed on the interface between

politics and science. Over 100 attended with keynotes

from Laura Sandys MP, Professor Jorgen Randers and

Professor Ugo Bardi. In 2017 the GSI will host on Anglia’s

Cambridge campus the Cambridge Global Health

Symposium in partnership with the NHS Sustainable

Development Unit and the University of Cambridge.

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WE@EUDue to rapid population rises in European urban areas and the risks that come as a result of this in terms of water, a European platform for innovation in water efficiency was created as part of the European Commission’s ‘Europe 2020’ vision. The GSI and Opportunity Peterborough represented the East of England alongside four other European regions (Spain, France, Israel and Malta) to deliver the Water Efficiency in European Areas (WE@EU) FP7-Funded project.

The primary aim of this project was to boost transnational

cooperation by creating this open European Platform

for research clusters to work together, share knowledge

and skills in a mutually beneficial way of learning. This

platform enabled participants to strengthen regional

capacities, develop joint action plans at European level

to increase economic competitiveness, develop new

innovative opportunities through the sharing of best-

practice and expose business investments.

As part of this project the GSI and Opportunity

Peterborough hosted the ‘Water Connect 2015’

conference. The aim of the conference was to begin

opening the dialogue on innovative approaches to

addressing the challenges and opportunities the water

sector faces in the East of England and internationally.

The conference also marked the launch of ‘The Water

Cluster’, an online platform to bring together a wide range

of stakeholders with an interest in water and innovation.

Amongst attendees of the conference, delegates came

from our own enterprise partners Ixion and Knowledge

Transfer, meaning that we were able to spread our

sustainability message directly to our universities

partners.

Limits to GrowthResearch being carried out by the GSI is playing a key role in shaping the work of an All Party Parliamentary Group. The APPG, which is chaired by Caroline Lucas MP and co-chaired by Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner, provides a platform for political parties to engage in dialogue on economic growth with environmental and social changes being considered.

Research carried out by the GSI’s ‘Global Resource

Observatory’ used new data to update the model that

was used in the original ‘Limits to Growth’ (1972) report

by the Club of Rome. Our newer model places greater

resilience on the service sector, a reduction of heavy

industry and greater agricultural innovation allowing

more food to be grown than had originally been

anticipated in the original report. This updated version

of the ‘Limits to Growth’ report will be directly used and

referenced in this APPG.

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‘Practices, the Built Environment and Sustainability’ NetworkDr Chris Foulds, a Senior Research Fellow at our GSI, has put together an international network to challenge already established ideas about a sustainable built environment. The network aims to address the different ways we promote and think about a sustainable approach to a built environment.

Currently, when policy makers and other professionals

try to address issues of sustainability, it’s a highly held

belief that technology holds the answers to convincing

individuals to live more sustainably and to change their

behaviours.

By setting up this network of international academics

from countries around the world such as Australia,

Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Norway, it is hoped that

we will be able to better understand the practices and

motivations behind those practices of people from

various social and professional backgrounds. When

applications opened for academics to apply to be a

part of this network, we received eight times as many

applications as there were places available. As a result, the

network has been increased to 18 places rather than the

original 15.

Mindfulness for Social Innovation and Sustainability in EnterpriseIrina Popova, a PhD student from the ‘Institute for International Management Practice’ (part of our Business School), is currently undertaking research into mindfulness in the workplace.

The work looks to recognise and highlight how

mindfulness could influence growth and a more

sustainable business. The hierarchical structures that are

present in today’s managerial practices often create high

levels of stress, uncontrolled growth and environmental

problems. The research will be important in finding ways

for businesses to explore mindfulness as a practice and

how it can relieve some of the problems that can occur

because of our hierarchical structures.

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Carbon Management Accounting and the Role of Management AccountantsPhD student Alireza Rohani, from our Lord Ashcroft International Business School’s (LAIBS) ‘Institute for International Management Practice’, is researching the role of management accountants in managing carbon accounts.

Where there have been many studies in the past

that highlight the benefits of adapting sustainability

management accounting, there have been a limited

amount of studies that have specifically concentrated

on carbon management accounting and the role of

management accountants alongside this. Rohani aims to

explore how management accountants, with their range

of skills and tools, can play a prominent role in supporting

organisations to respond responsibly to climate change

and minimise their carbon footprints.

Animal and Environment Research Group (AERG) Within our Life Sciences department, the Animal and Environment Research Group (AERG) carries out fundamental and applied research to identify innovative resolutions to complex global issues in regard to biodiversity and climate change.

Within the research group, research is carried out that

looks at global change ecology to try and discover

innovative ways to solve the complex challenges we face.

Conservation and evolutionary genetics is also a topic of

interest in the group, with modern molecular methods

being used to address ecological and evolutionary

research questions with the aim to aid and improve the

management and conservation of species. Research into

animal behaviour plays a huge part in the AERG and they

use a range experimental approaches to address issues

around behavioural ecology and animal welfare.

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Research Conference 2015As part of our GSI’s work to further their reach and influence by raising awareness of the GSI brand and building partnerships, they have organised and co-hosted conferences. The second GSI conference in 2015 looked at the boundary between politics and science. The conference played host to delegates who are leaders in academia, business, government and non-governmental organisations.

The conference gave the opportunity to delegates to

challenge the status quo – there was a desire to explore

how research could create positive steps towards a

sustainable future and to consider the role of research

in the development of policy for sustainability. As 2015

was a pivotal year in politics for the sustainability agenda,

holding a conference to discuss the margin between

politics and research came at a vital time and the

conference was a great success in terms of engagement

and the ideas that came from bringing those delegates

together.

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Our Physical Environment

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Sustainability at ARU Brian Richardson, Student Services, 2nd place, 2015 Staff Biodiversity Photography Competition

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Simon Chubb Environmental Manager

To become sustainability literate leaders of tomorrow, students coming to ARU must be engaged through their teaching and research, as well as through the campus environment, their accommodation, food outlets, student clubs and societies, travel choices, interaction with university staff, and many other aspects of their time with us. The Environment Team within the Estates & Facilities Department at Anglia Ruskin works to embed sustainability within all these areas of university life.

The day-to-day practice of working towards our

sustainability vision involves delivering compliance

and performance improvement in our management

of energy, water, waste, travel, biodiversity, purchasing,

EfS, buildings and staff and student engagement.

We were one of the first universities in the UK to

achieve certification to the international environmental

management standard ISO 14001 in 2009, and uniquely

included EfS in our first environmental policy. We

continue to use this management system to drive the

various facets of our sustainability agenda forwards and

are now placed within the top quartile performance of UK

universities for carbon emissions, water consumption and

waste generation relative to staff and student numbers.

Our sustainability work programme is characterised by

constant change, innovation and experimentation. In 2013

we were one of 10 universities in the UK to be awarded

a £1 million HEFCE exemplary retrofit green loan to

install a campus CHP energy centre and network which,

once phase 2 is completed, will reduce campus carbon

emissions by over 20%. We installed a high performance

data centre on our Cambridge campus in 2011, and were

amongst the first in the HE sector to trial the use of phase

change materials in computer labs and lecture theatres

which reduced cooling energy loads by over 90% with

improved comfort levels

Sustainability at ARU works at its best when both staff

and students are engaged and active. We run active

sustainability engagement programmes for both staff and

students characterised by the same degree of innovation

and experimentation applied to our infrastructure. Our

2014 Green Love engagement programme was included

in a state-of-the-art report, “Best Practice in Campus

Sustainability”, launched by the International Sustainable

Campus Network (ISCN) and Global Universities

Leadership Forum (GULF) at the World Economic Forum

in Davos and in 2016 our ARU Green Student Societies

Fund was shortlisted in the UK Green Gown Awards finals.

The Environment Team works closely with the GSI,

Students’ Union and every part of our University

community to realise our sustainability ambitions, and

we’re an active contributor to sustainability networks

within and beyond the higher education sector nationally

and globally. The following pages detail some of our

work to date and signal the next steps in our ongoing

sustainability journey.

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ISO14001ISO 14001 is a management system to help organisations reduce their environmental impact. To gain certification of ISO 14001, our University must demonstrate our commitments to the environment by reducing our harmful effects and providing evidence of continual improvement within environmental management.

From the most resent assessment (2016), we can reveal

that we have been successful in maintaining our ISO

14001 environmental management system certification,

and have absolutely zero noncompliance areas or

observations. This means that we are compliant in every

area of the certification. By achieving ISO 14001 this

means that we can clearly demonstrate our commitment

to reducing our negative impacts on the environment.

The benefits of being certified as achieving ISO 14001 are

brilliant for our University in terms of reducing costs and

also when tendering for new business.

Catering Due to our University’s commitment to embedding sustainability in everything that we do, and because we recognise the impact of our actions in regards to purchasing, preparation and operation of our food outlets, we abide by a Sustainable Food Policy.

Through this policy, we aim to provide nutritious, healthy

and enjoyable menu options through a wide range of

outlets on all of our campuses in the most sustainable

way possible. In all of our food outlets we provide

freshly prepared meals daily on site and always aspire

to having a variety of imaginative vegan and vegetarian

meals. We are always favouring the use of seasonal

fruit and vegetables, using only free-range eggs, and

increasing our use of fish products certified by the Marine

Stewardship Council as well as the range of Fairtrade

products available on campus.

We go to every effort to ensure that all of our products

are clearly labelled to indicate menu options which are

healthy, seasonal, certified sustainable and Fairtrade.

When working, we are always conscious of our usage

and consumption to ensure that we are being as

sustainable as possible, monitoring our energy and water

consumption separately and reducing the amount used

per meal. We are also always striving to reduce, reuse and

recycle our catering waste and reward our customers for

doing the same.

Furthermore, in line with our commitments to

sustainability, we have recently collaborated with the

GSI to create a new ‘Food for Thought’ corporate buffet

choice.

The objectives, targets, timelines and resources we need

in order to deliver on these commitments, are contained

in our Sustainable Food Policy and are outlined in our

Environment Strategy which we review annually.

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On-Campus BiodiversityThrough our commitment to sustainability, our Environment Team - part of our Estates and Facilities Service - have worked tirelessly over the past few years to create a more environmentally friendly and biodiverse campus to help nurture natural habitats and help to create a campus environment which our students will feel inspired and proud to work in.

Across our campuses we have installed and preserved

various biodiverse areas and projects:

• Beehive’s have been installed on the roofs of our Lord

Ashcroft International Business School (LAB) building

which means more help to pollinate our campus and

the honey they produce makes for a great gift!

• Green Roofs can be found on our LAB and Helmore

(HEL) buildings which helps to increase the habitat and

diversity of wildlife, but also helps to lower our energy

use as it helps to keep buildings cooler in Summer and

warmer in Winter.

• A ‘Bug Hotel’ can be found in both Chelmsford and

Cambridge. These are made from recycled materials

and are a simple yet effective way to enhance our

invertebrate biodiversity, especially in such an urban

area.

• A Green Wall has been installed on the David building

which proves that even the smallest of spaces can be

green! Living walls like our Green Wall can enhance

even the smallest of urban areas.

• We have a Bog Garden in Cambridge, to cater

to creatures and plants which prefer a damper

environment.

• Our allotments in Cambridge and Chelmsford offer

students and staff the opportunity to enjoy time-out,

create a sense of community and help to grow and

care for the allotments which grow fruit and vegetables.

• Behind the MedBIC building in Chelmsford, we have a

row of trees bordering campus which have a number

of bird and bat boxes. There are also two small hides

which aim to provide a habitat and cover for reptiles

and amphibians.

Bug Hotel on our Chelmsford Campus Green Wall on the David building in Cambridge

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Sustainability at ARUEmma Stokes, CMIDS, 1st place, 2016 Staff Biodiversity Photography Competition

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Engaging Staff & Students Each year, our Environment Team organises a ‘Green Staff Competition’. This competition is held throughout Anglia Ruskin and every staff member is invited to enter. The premise is simple, there are multiple competitions which happen throughout the year in which nominated ‘Green Gurus’ from each department rally their department to take part in and then the more engagement and the more winners that your department produces, the more green points you gain in the overall competition. At the end of the year, the department who has accumulated the most points is crowned the winner.

This competition has proven to be a fantastic and fun way

to engage with staff from all departments, to make them

question their environmentally sustainable responsibilities

and to create a sense of competition amongst staff

over how environmentally sustainable their department

is. Over the last year we’ve seen the highest amounts

of engagement ever in the ‘Green Staff Competition’

with almost 2300 staff members engaging with the

competition in total.

During the ‘Green Staff Competition’, there has been

a range of challenges and competitions. There’s been

a ‘Walking Challenge’ where staff members from

departments carried pedometers and measured their

steps, the winners being the department with the most

steps by the end of the challenge. There’s also been

various social media based competitions to encourage

staff to engage with sustainability on online platforms and

in turn spread the sustainability message. All prizes for

mini competitions have ranged from Fitbits to a supply of

Fairtrade tea and coffee for your office, ensuring that staff

members are rewarded for their brilliant sustainable work.

We’ve also seen some departments create extra green

competitions within their departments after being

inspired by our competition. For example, overall winners

of the Green Staff competition 2016 LAIBS (Lord Ashcroft

International Business School) have created a sunflower

competition in their own department to continue in

their efforts to make the LAIBS department increasingly

environmentally conscious.

On top of the Environment Team’s work to engage

staff, they also make it their mission to create events

on campus and, through social media for our students,

ensure that they also engage with sustainability issues.

Like the staff competition, there’s often competitions

aimed at students to win prizes through engagement

with the Environment Team, either in person or through

online platforms.

Events which aim to promote environmental

sustainability and campus biodiversity are often carried

out in the heart of our campuses so that students can

easily engage as they go about their day. An example

of one of these events was during ‘Fairtrade Fortnight’

when the Environment Team invited ‘LUSH Cosmetics’, a

Fairtrade and environmentally conscious business, on to

our campuses. LUSH Cosmetics showed students how

they make their Fairtrade bath bombs and spoke with

them about why Fairtrade is important, letting students

make their own bath bombs to take away.

IT Services win Fairtrade Fortnight quiz

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Estates AchievementsSustainable Restaurant Association – One Star Food Made Good Rating 2016

Essex County Council – Gold Travel Plan Accreditation 2016

Travel for Cambridgeshire – Sustainable Travel Initiative – Bronze Award 2016

Green Essex Awards – Green Essex Awards Finalist (Greenest Community Project) 2015

Coolmyplanet.org – Environmental Sustainability Certificate 2015

Essex County Council – Gold Travel Plan Accreditation 2015

Travel for Cambridgeshire – Platinum Cambridgeshire and Peterborough travel plan award 2015

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Our Student Community

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Leigh Rooney President of ARU Students’ Union 2016–17

Although ARU Students’ Union is independent of our University, we have a long lasting partnership when it comes to things like sustainability. It is this partnership with our University and all its departments that ensures that we continue to make ARU a fantastic place to study and that our students have the best experience.

We are run by students for students; everything we do

is aimed at transforming students’ voices into positive

change. That’s why when our students voted to create

our ‘Environment and Community’ reps, we not only

created them but also recognised that our students

wanted more to be done in this field. In fact, in some

of our most recent research into student opinion

we asked our students what they wanted to see our

full-time officers’ prioritising in their terms of office.

79.5% of surveyed students felt it was important or

slightly important for the full-time officers to focus on

environmental issues.

With all the sustainability work and the implementation

of EfS, our students are becoming more and more

concerned for the environment and how they can be

sustainable for the future. At the time of writing this,

we currently have 14 societies, including ARU Vegan

Society, Mental Health Awareness and Student Action for

Refugees, that either have a strong focus on sustainable

issues or have a history of holding events or campaigns

which promote sustainability. Between 2015 and 2016, 20

policies with a focus on or an element of sustainability,

were taken to our Student Council by students and

passed.

Over the last year we had the pleasure of being involved

in the creation of our Universities first ever Sustainability

Strategy (2016-20), students from our societies were

members of University committees such as the

Biodiversity Steering group, we signed up to Responsible

Futures in partnership with our University, and we ran

Green Impact meetings with representatives of different

departments within our University. We’re proud to say

that when it comes to sustainability, our students’ voices

have been represented and heard at every possible level

throughout our University.

To ensure that we are playing our part in making ARU

and our students more sustainable, we have introduced

many new initiatives. We hosted our first ever Green

Week to engage with students about environmental

issues, alongside ARU’s Environment Team we introduced

the Green Fund for our student led societies to apply

for grants and we added environmental criteria to our

societies accreditation scheme.

I’m also incredibly proud to say that our student

volunteers logged an incredible 16,768.25 hours and

2,747 skills as volunteers. And for the very first time, ARU

Students’ Union achieved ‘Gold’ in NUS Green Impact

student unions.

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Green WeekIn the last year, ARU Students’ Union took on a brand new project to try and teach students about sustainability in various interactive ways. ‘ARU Green Week’ is an interactive week of events over all our core campuses, aimed to encourage students to live more sustainable lives and to widen their understanding of environmental issues. Each day of Green Week took on a theme and various events and activities simultaneously happened on all core campuses in relation to that theme.

Monday – FoodWe asked students’ to take the ‘Green Monday’ pledge.

Our Students’ Union is the first in the UK to become a

member of ‘Green Monday’ - an international initiative

founded in Hong Kong to teach people in businesses,

schools and universities about how the food they

consume has an impact on our environment, our water

and on global food supplies. The ‘Green Monday’ pledge

is a promise to not consume any meat on a Monday for a

whole year which can help reduce deforestation, reduce

water wastage, reduce Co2 emissions and even help to

produce food for people in areas deprived of food. To

coincide with this, our Students’ Union and our catering

service created a reward system for people who took the

pledge and bought vegetarian or vegan meals from our

catering services on a Monday. The reward system gave

students a free ‘Green Meal’ after buying 12 vegetarian or

vegan meals from the catering service.

Tuesday – BiodiversityOn this day we promoted the fantastic biodiversity on our

campuses and encouraged students’ to get involved in

various biodiversity projects happening on campus.

Wednesday – Recycling Student volunteers took to speaking with their peers

about how to recycle properly in their accommodation.

We also had student volunteers running a ‘Big Green

Swap Shop’, the ‘Big Green Swap Shop’ was held on

campus for students to come in with their old unwanted

items such as clothing and books, they were then issued

a token for each item they brought in which they could

exchange for other items which had been brought in by

other students. All leftover items were then donated to

various local charity shops.

Thursday – WaterWe had local water companies join us on each campus

to promote to students how they can reduce their water

usage and the importance of doing so. There was also a

free screening of a documentary which aims to highlight

how we need to act now as global citizens to reduce how

much water we waste and how we can reduce our water

consumption.

Friday – EnergyVolunteers went around our campuses to promote to

students how they can reduce their energy consumption

and we had bicycle powered technology giving students

the opportunity to power a blender and make their own

smoothies by cycling and then later there was a movie

screening completely powered by students cycling.

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‘Whole Earth?’ In October 2015, we had the pleasure of hosting a photography exhibit on Parker’s Piece in Cambridge. It was a collaboration between our GSI and Cambridge University’s Environment and Energy section.

‘Whole Earth?’ is a photography exhibit created by

photographer Mark Edwards who brought together The

Hard Rain Project, National Union Students (NUS) and

Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS) for the piece.

The exhibit aimed to teach students and young people

about the problems facing our planet and how they can

become part of the solution, based on the premise and

understanding that students and universities can help

lead society toward a more sustainable future.

To accompany the public exhibition, there was a panel

discussion held at Anglia Ruskin that was compered by

Sammi Whitaker, President of Anglia Ruskin Students’

Union, and Quinn Runkle, Senior Project Officer for NUS’

Department for Sustainability. The panel consisted of

Mark Edwards, the renowned photographer behind the

exhibition, Joan Walley, the former MP and Chair of the

Environmental Audit Select Committee, and Dr Aled

Jones, Director of the GSI. Approximately 80 students

from both our University and the University of Cambridge

came along to take part in the event and asked questions

to the panel members about how they as students could

help to make the world more sustainable and how they

could lead more sustainable lives.

Speaking during the keynote speech, Mark Edwards

explained, “We face new challenges and old challenges

on a new scale.” He also called for a new revolution,

adding that, “if it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen

at universities.” The ‘Whole Earth?’ project is challenging

students to think more meaningfully about what they

want to see in the future and to act on it. Following the

undertaking of this project, Dr Aled Jones, Dr Alison Greig

and Grace Philip from the GSI were all acknowledged

by Mark Edwards in his work for their contribution to

strategy and social media engagement. Since showcasing

the ‘Whole Earth?’ exhibition, the GSI have loaned the

exhibition to schools in the local community to engage

with more students at every age and level about the

importance of sustainability.

Image from the ‘Whole Earth?’ exhibition on Parker’s Piece in Cambridge

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Green Impact (2015–16) – Gold! For the first time ever in the history of ARU Students’ Union, our Students’ Union has achieved Gold in NUS’s Green Impact Student Unions. NUS’s Green Impact is an award winning behaviour change programme monitoring how organisations are performing in promoting sustainability to students and how sustainable they are in terms of how the organisation runs. 117 Students’ Unions around the country took part in this year’s Green Impact and Anglia Ruskin Students’ Union was 1 of 32 Students’ Unions who achieved Gold.

The NUS Green Impact auditor had the following to

say: “Anglia Ruskin Students’ Union has demonstrated a

consistently high level of commitment to sustainability

through GISU over many years. It’s great to see Sammi

Whitaker, the SU President, championing sustainability

this year across the University as well as seeing a strong

working relationship between the SU and the University

on programmes like Responsible Futures.”

And Sammi Whitaker the ARU Students’ Union President

of 2015–16 had this to say following the achievement:

“When I began as President, myself and the team were

aware we were Silver in Green Impact and we pledged

that this year we would finally achieve Gold. Receiving this

award has been the culmination of many years’ work to

embed sustainability into the organisation. Sustainability

now appears in all aspects of the Students’ Union’s

activities, including staff induction, course rep training,

clubs and societies training, campaigns, volunteering,

community engagement and events planning, ensuring

that staff and students are fully engaged.”

SocietiesSocieties at Anglia Ruskin are a great way for students to make new friends, learn from peers and also gain valuable employability skills when they are elected to be on a society committee. With this in mind, it’s important to ensure that every society is equipped with the tools and knowledge to make their society successful and fruitful for years to come. Being on a committee of a society holds many responsibilities, many students describe it as running a small business.

That’s why ARU Students’ Union spends time with each

society to ensure that they have the skills to run the

society successfully. Within the training for societies, our

Students’ Union holds a compulsory ‘Green Induction’

for committee members to better understand their

responsibilities as an organisation to the environment.

Societies who act responsibly and sustainable gain

points toward the Students’ Union ‘Clubs and Societies

Award Scheme’. The scheme was set up to give society’s

milestones to complete so that they can be accredited as

either a bronze, silver or gold certified society. To achieve

gold in the scheme, societies have to be able to show

how they have been involved in ‘Green’ activities at ARU

and they need to be able to illustrate that they have been

an environmentally responsible society over the year.

In the last year the ARU Environment team worked with

our Students’ Union to create a ‘Green Fund’. The fund

was created so that societies could bid for funding to

help them with the running of sustainable events. In the

last year £2300 was successfully bid by societies and the

‘Green Fund’ has now been shortlisted as a finalist for the

‘Green Gown Awards 2016’.

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Sustainable RepsAfter our students voted in Student Council 2013 to have ‘Environment & Community’ reps created, our Students’ Union has been more in touch with sustainability issues than ever before. This year we had all of our ‘Environment & Community’ rep elections contested and our students elected a rep in this field for each campus. Here’s what they have to say about their time as an ‘Environment & Community Rep’:

What made you want to run for the position of Environment and Community Rep?Thea: I put myself forward for this role because I wanted

to improve and sustain the environmental image and

impact of the university, and bring the communities

within the university together.

Lauren: I ran because I’m passionate about the

environment and sustainability. I wanted to try and make

a difference, however small, by getting involved with the

Students’ Union to help raise awareness among students

about the environment.

What sustainability accomplishments are you most proud of?Thea: I ran something called the ‘Rucksack Project’ where

people donated food, clothes and toiletries to be put into

backpacks for homeless people in Chelmsford. I managed

to collect over 16 backpacks with spares. The project built

awareness with local groups, businesses and people,

about disadvantaged people in our community and gave

them a way to make a difference.

Lauren: I’m most proud of the engagement work I’ve

done with students this year. It’s been really interesting

asking students what being ‘green’ means to them and

getting them to consider a more sustainable lifestyle. I

also won the SU Environment award for my work this

year and in particular for helping in the running of ‘ARU

Green Week’. I think I’m most proud of the work we did

during ARU Green Week – it was a great experience.

Grace and Felicity talk sustainability with students at the Fresher’s Fair

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VolunteeringWith a huge range of volunteering opportunities on offer and a dedicated staff team who find the perfect opportunity to fit our students in terms of their interests, skills, abilities and time which they can offer, there’s always some kind of volunteering opportunity which our students can take part in to learn valuable employability skills and to give something back to the community. Here’s just a couple of the brilliant and sustainable initiatives being run by our student volunteers:

The People’s PatchOn our Chelmsford campus we have an allotment that

both students and staff volunteer their time to help

grow fruits and vegetables. Currently, once the allotment

produces food ready to be taken away, student volunteers

donate the food to ‘Sanctus’ – a homeless charity in

Chelmsford to help in their kitchens and help with a

fund raising initiative which they run there. The initiative

takes donated fruit and vegetables and encourages the

homeless people at Sanctus to make smoothies which

are then sold to members of the public to raise money for

the charity.

Friday Food Waste Friday Food Waste was first set up by one of our students,

Maya, who says, “I was working in Anglia Ruskin’s cafeteria

(Cambridge) for a year and I saw how much food went

to waste at the end of the week. One day there were

so many sandwiches left that I decided to take them to

Jimmy’s Shelter (homeless shelter in Cambridge)”. Since

then, our Students’ Union and a whole host of student

volunteers have collected food at the end of the week

from our Cambridge cafeterias and have taken all the

food to homeless shelters in the city.

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Sustainability Art PrizeThe Sustainability Art Prize is sponsored by Anglia Ruskin’s Cambridge School of Art and the GSI. This art prize has existed since 2012. In 2015 third year BA (Hons) Fine Art student Ian Wolter won, with his piece entitled, ‘Lest We Forget Those Who Denied’. Since then, the Sustainability Art Prize has been something of a talking point after Ian’s piece received a lot of national attention for being controversial and inspiring.

This year the winner was an MA Fine Art student who

works under the pseudonym, Artists Activist, for their

work, ‘Scar Tissues’. Artists Activists’ ‘Scar Tissue’ is a

collage of tiny satellite images. These include evidence of

bombing in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which were visible

on publically-available European Space Agency images

but hadn’t been reported by the media.

“The Sustainability Art Prize has become firmly established in the Cambridge School of Art calendar. Last year the competition attracted national attention, when the winning work upset climate change deniers, and created a media storm. In response, this year’s competition has been bigger and better than ever, and for the first time it has occupied the main Ruskin Gallery space. The standard of the work is thought-provoking as ever, and students have raised their ambitions in creating work of a scale and quality to merit the attention which the Ruskin Gallery attracts. Scar Tissue, the winning entry, is a thought-provoking and powerful indictment of the harm inflicted through warfare on the environment.”Chris Owen, Head of Cambridge School of Art

‘Scar Tissue’ by Artists Activists

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