Sustainability and Environment news

• Algae ball research recognised with international biological engineering award

  15/05/2023

  Research by a UWE Bristol academic that demonstrates how balls of algae can be transformed into eco-friendly underwater robots capable of carrying out surveying and exploration tasks has been recognised with a prestigious award.

• UWE Bristol's award-winning green skills programme returns for 2023

  20/04/2023

  Applications are now open for the transformational Green Skills for Jobs and Entrepreneurship programme, which is aimed at young people from Black, Asian and Global Majority backgrounds who are interested in exploring a career in the green sector or setting up their own sustainable business or social enterprise.

• Join in with the making of a new outdoor sculpture for UWE Bristol's Frenchay campus

  30/03/2023

  The next stage of a project to create a public artwork for UWE Bristol’s Frenchay campus gets underway in April with a series of free ‘Makers Workshops’.

• Ground-breaking green skills programme for minoritised young people celebrates success

  07/06/2022 More than 70 young people have successfully completed the first stage of a transformational 'first of its kind' green skills training programme.

• Edible insects and plant-based proteins to be the subject of classroom debates

  26/05/2022 Edible insects and plant-based alternatives to meat will be discussed with children as part of new research by UWE Bristol and Cardiff University.

• University of the West of England committed to action on climate

  28/04/2022

  Just 45 per cent of parents of 16 to 18-year-olds in the South West believe that UK universities are equipping the next generation of students with knowledge about climate change, according to new research from Universities UK.

• Trees planted at UWE Bristol to mark Queen's Platinum Jubilee

  04/04/2022

  A special tree planting ceremony has taken place with the Lord-Lieutenant of the City and County of Bristol, Peaches Golding, as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative at UWE Bristol’s Bower Ashton Campus. 

• Skills for Clean Growth for SMEs in West of England launches

  10/02/2022 Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the West of England will be able to benefit from skills and workforce development to help them transition to a low carbon economy, thanks to the Skills for Clean Growth (SCG) programme, which launches in January 2022.

• UWE signs pledge to divest from fossil fuel extractor companies

  27/01/2022 UWE Bristol yesterday cemented its commitment to becoming carbon net zero by 2030 when Vice-Chancellor Steve West signed a declaration pledging to hold no investments in fossil fuel extractor companies now and in the future.

• West of England's firms offered carbon cutting workshop at UWE Bristol as part of the Race to Zero

  07/09/2021

  The West of England’s businesses will be offered carbon reduction workshops and practical net zero advice at UWE Bristol’s Frenchay campus on Friday (10 September).

• Funding granted for innovative clean air project to learn how Bristol travel changed during pandemic

  13/05/2021

  Dr Fiona Crawford, Research Fellow in Transport Studies, has been awarded funding for a new innovative clean air project, looking at how car and van travel has changed across Bristol during different stages of the pandemic.

• New project aims to tackle transport-related exclusion for young people

  12/05/2021

  UWE Bristol has teamed up with walking and cycling charity, Sustrans, to launch a new research project which aims to address transport-related barriers faced by young people aged 12-24 years in the UK. 

• World-first 'smart' fungal building to be created in £2.5m living architecture project

  09/09/2019

  A revolutionary new type of intelligent building made with green construction materials and capable of adaptively reacting to changes in light, temperature and air pollutants is being developed by UWE Bristol academics in collaboration with partners from Denmark (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture), Italy (MOGU) and the Netherlands (Utrecht University).

• Conservation plan could help endangered primates in Africa

  03/09/2019

  A project co-led by the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), Bristol Zoo and West African Primate Conservation Action is set to help protect nine species of primate found across Africa. A five-year plan that will be sent to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and which begins in 2020, sets out measures to protect the endangered Mangadrills.

• UWE Bristol students help create new sanctuary for endangered lemurs

  03/08/2018

  The future of some of the world's rarest lemurs is looking more secure thanks, in part, to fieldwork carried out by students from UWE Bristol. Their involvement has helped to persuade local community leaders in Madagascar to back plans to create a new 65,000 acre nature reserve on the island.

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