Quick survey of current practice. Much good practice i

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Environmental Association of Universities and
Colleges

• Working with staff and students

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Overview

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Press releases
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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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!)

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Electronic communications

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

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Interactive Online Quizes
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The here, the now and the future?

• Facebook Groups Invitations
• RSS feeds
• Blackboard Community System
• Direct mobile marketing Bluetooth hotspots

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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

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Contacts

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