By Dr Lance Peng (Cornwall-based researcher) Every summer, Newquay becomes something slightly different. For a few days, the town becomes a meeting point for music, […]
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Spending a summer surveying habitats on campus
By Tom Lilly and Daisy Hughes, Biodiversity Survey Field Assistants Why do we monitor biodiversity? Monitoring biodiversity is becoming increasingly important as organisations work to […]
A Year of Repair: Building a community through the Repair Café
By Megan Haslam It’s hard to believe that just a year ago, the Repair Café at the University of Exeter was just an idea. Looking […]
Bumblebees outside the Forum
By Ros Shaw, Sustainability Manager (Biodiversity) Why are there so many dead bumblebees outside the Forum? There are two places high up in the Forum […]
Sustainability is a way of thinking…
I’m not a scientist and I had no idea about the quantity of waste generated in laboratories. Blog by Anita Crouch Take gloves, for instance. […]
Building Conversations About Sustainability with LEGO® Serious Play®
By Katherine Ashbullby, Erin Rowe, Aaliyah Anderson As part of the Green Seeds programme at Exeter, we recently brought together staff and students from across […]
Embedding sustainability in ‘unassuming’ subjects: conversations with staff in Law, Classics and Psychology
Author: Alex Watmore, Responsible Futures Lead Intern The Responsible Futures Survey highlighted that student demand for sustainability education is high across all subjects : over […]
City Nature Challenge – it’s a wrap (but not really)
Our first City Nature Challenge for Exeter is completed and the results are in! Over the weekend of the 24th-27th April 2026, we recorded wildlife in […]
Student-led Sustainability in Action During the SDG Teach In 2026
Every year, the SDG Teach In, run by Students Organising for Sustainability UK (SOS-UK), brings the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into teaching, learning, and wider university life. This […]
Sixteen projects supported by the Sustainability Projects Fund
The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) is a fund to help the University meet its sustainability commitments, set up by the Sustainability team in 24/25. It is for small to […]