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Title: Quick survey of current practice. Much good practice i


1
Environmental Association of Universities and
Colleges
  • Working with staff and students

2
Overview
  • Quick survey of current practice
  • Much good practice in sector
  • Critical Success factor why
  • How?
  • Who?
  • Workshop

3
Working with staff and students
  • Why
  • Cant do it by yourself get to parts other
  • Need to communicate
  • Improved environmental sustainability needs
    systemic change
  • Change attitudes, knowledge get greater
    understanding and buy-in behavioural chnage
  • Staff and students have differing perspectives,
    cunning plans

4
Staff
  • Representatives committees
  • Supporters
  • Auditors (Environmental Management Systems)
  • Curriculum and assignments/projects
    /dissertation/research
  • Modelling good practice
  • Spies
  • Naggers
  • (Eco/EMS) Champions
  • Part of the bigger environment team

5
Staff
  • All the staff are important, whatever their role
    in organisation
  • Demographics 25 60 (average age 50?). Some of
    us have been there for some time
  • Middle- aged middle class, females more
    interested?
  • Volunteers
  • Champions?
  • All affect facilities usage

6
How to get to staff
  • Through senior/middle management and/or bottom-
    up
  • Committees
  • Networks (formal/informal)
  • Forums eg Swansea University has good Staff
    /Student Forum (Sustainability Forum)
  • Email eg SMU 100 day campaign (but can get email
    fatigue)
  • Staff training, induction etc (SDO)
  • Specific events and competitions eg SMUs
    environment champions in environment week
    fairtrade /fortnight

7
How to get to staff
  • Staff newsletters, notice boards (EPCs/ DECs)
  • Specific publications eg environmental
    newsletters, handbooks eg Green Guides
  • Press releases SMU good at this
  • Web
  • Intranet
  • Blackboard
  • Facebook/ You Tube etc

8
Press releases
9
What do we want from staff?
  • Commitment
  • Behaviour change eg demand Fairtrade coffee,
    salary sacrifice
  • Good not bad example
  • Good ideas, constructive criticism
  • Green curriculum both inside courses and across
    entire organisation
  • Cunning plans

10
Students
  • Demographics varies with college/uni
  • FT/PT
  • Younger different perspective
  • The customer? lots of significance to senior
    management
  • Turnover 25 upwards per year
  • More demand for sustainability now
  • Theyre there for different reasons than staff
    mostly to get qualification
  • May not deliver

11
Students
  • How to get to them
  • See above under staff
  • Freshers, student induction, modules
  • Electronic means eg U tube, Facebook, Blackboard
  • Student Union Councils, Environment and Ethics
    rep.
  • Student Groups People and Planet, other groups
    eg international groups
  • Plus their tutors/lecturers eg Glyndwr student
    project
  • Student services, international officers.

12
What can you offer students?
  • Ways to be more sustainable
  • Ways of getting assignments done
  • Meaningful projects/ placement /dissertations,eg
    Hatfield Uni student projects
  • Fun
  • Feeling useful
  • Better CV employability skills

13
What is a champion?
  • Literally champions to others
  • Knowledge and expertise
  • Rewards
  • Recognition of being an exemplar
  • How get a champion?
  • Nomination by manager or self or peers
  • Improve training, information
  • Put in job description (But HERA!)

14
Electronic communications
  • South West Wales Higher Education Partnership
    sustainability Project Green Guides in pdf format

15
Interactive Online Quizes
16
The here, the now and the future?
  • Facebook Groups Invitations
  • RSS feeds
  • Blackboard Community System
  • Direct mobile marketing Bluetooth hotspots

17
Workshop
  • Divide into groups
  • Appoint reporter
  • On Charts, list-
  • Ways of working with staff and students with
    positive and negative features
  • Report at 10 to 12

18
Contacts
  • elizabeth.may_at_smu.ac.uk 01792 481143
  • Anna.rawlings_at_smu.ac.uk
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