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Responsible Futures Green Impact Project
The Responsible Futures Green Impact project surveyed 70 students during the University of Worcester’s Go Green Week in February to investigate students’ views on sustainability in the curriculum. Most students reported that the university has…
ESD Community of Practice launched
In April 2026, the University of Worcester launched its Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Community of Practice (CoP). The CoP is for staff committed to embedding ESD and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into…
Are Students Learning enough about Sustainable Development (SDGs)?
Are students learning about sustainability in the curriculum at University? Using a benchmarking tool we looked at how much your University has embedded the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We also looked at our participation in…
Using the Co-Designs ESD GenAI Coach to embed ESD
Co-Designs is a globally recognised framework which supports embedding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in curriculum design and delivery, and in September 2025, they launched an ESD GenAI Coach to further help this work. At…
Sulitest at the University of Worcester
Words by Emily Luan edits by Tom Newland, illustrations by Erin McGarry. The research was undertaken by David Fitzgerald, Alexander Scott, Nha Hoang, and Christopher Mason. The Sustainable Development Goals were established by the United…
Bridging Continents: How Two Worcesters Are Reimagining Sustainability in Higher Education
What happens when two universities—one in the UK and one in the US—share not just a name, but a vision for sustainability in higher education? That’s the story behind a recent student-led research project connecting…
Student Sustainability Skills Survey 2024
The Student Sustainability Skills Survey 2024 gathers insights on University of Worcester students’ sustainability knowledge, attitudes, and skills in the academic year 2024-2025. These findings help shape initiatives that equip students with the tools they…
Green Skills and Careers
Worcester Polytechnic Institute University students Athina Koutougka, Max Maria,Matthew Urrea, Alexander Zhang created a Green Skills workshop guiding the promotion of a sustainable future. The goal: to improve knowledge and interest in green skills and…
Post-Covid impacts on sustainability awareness and behaviours highlighted in student and staff surveys
In 2023 the surveys with students and staff were repeated. Response rates were very low for students n=281 and n=380 for staff. The extremely low student response rate may be a post-Covid symptom. Sustainability awareness…
Global Sustainability Test – Student Results
Additional material Estela Castelli Florino Pilz Projects and Community Management at Sulitest The University of Worcester has already more than proven its commitment to building a sustainable future with its many community and environmental projects…
How Can We Improve Climate Education in Worcestershire Schools?
How Can We Improve Climate Education written by Teaching Greener members, Logan Frandsen, Caleb Powell, Noah Mester and Ethan Knight. Edited by Megan Asbury and Joe Toft. Illustrations by Joe Toft. Improving climate education Teaching…
Go Green Week 2021 – online
Designed and delivered by the university’s first-year Human Nutrition students, along with many supporting volunteers and the help of the Students’ Union, this year’s Go Green Week signified a new opportunity to reach a wider audience and promote global participation.
From Waste Fabrics to a Sustainable Cup Cosy: Student Naomi Explains Her Product!
Naomi, a student from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, was briefed with making something new from the waste fabrics of a furniture company. Her innovative idea for a cup cosy kit has been…
SDG’s: PGCE Secondary workshop From Pessimism to Hope
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 ambitious goals for global development, agreed to by 195 nations at the UN in September 2015. They have been described as a diplomatic miracle, the…
Measuring Sustainable Development Research in a University
International frameworks and the UK Research Councils highlight the need for Sustainable Development Research to inform policy making, science and technology, yet indicators to measure this activity in universities are only slowly emerging. Kingston University’s…
A snapshot of sustainability at the University of Worcester
On the 28th June 2018, photography student Martha Dunning from the University of the West of England (UWE) visited the sustainability department at the University of Worcester as part of a project documenting office life.…
Sustainable Education Sector Report 2017
University and College leaders recognise sustainability as priority but fail to deliver Sustainable Education sector report 2017 from the National Union of Students (NUS), Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC), University and College Union…
Citizens needs key competencies to meet SDG’s
There is a new discourse emerging within the education and learning for sustainability community, which argues that citizens need to have certain key competencies that allow them to engage constructively and responsibly with an increasingly…
Critical thinking – changing how you look
Changing how you look at things changes how you see them! Put another way it is crucial that we retain and facilitate the ability to think outside the box and the frame……we need to challenge…