The Sustainability Awards are based on the UC’s Strategic Vision, Sustainability Policy, and Ngā Uara|Our Values.
There are three sustainability awards categories to be awarded in 2024:
1. Research for Sustainability – Advancing Sustainability Research Award
2. Teaching and Learning for Sustainability – Advancing Sustainability Knowledge Award
3. Sustainable Operating Practices – Protecting our Planet Award
Staff (individuals/groups, or in certain categories, activities/initiatives) are eligible for each award. Staff can nominate an individual/group/activities/initiatives, or they can self-nominate. There is ONE Winner for EACH award.
And the 2024 Winners are:
Award | Winner |
| Research for Sustainability - Advancing Sustainability Research | Professor Lucie Ozanne This award recognises Professor Ozanne’s significant contributions for the past 30 years, to research focused on environmentally motivated consumption behaviour and using those findings to market and promote more sustainable behaviours. |
| Teaching and Learning for Sustainability -Advancing Sustainability Knowledge | School of Product Design for the Redesign with Waste Challenge Drs Hossein Zadeh and Ali Reza Nazmi, also acknowledging the support the project received from a number of technical staff. This award recognises the School for the redesign with waste challenge which has multiple partners and has given birth to a number of sustainable businesses and innovations. |
| Sustainable Operating Practices – Protecting our Planet | Hannah O’Dwyer This award recognises Hannah’s hard work on the Archival Shelving Project in the UC Library. The project involved co-ordinating the replacement of shelving that better meets professional standards for storing archives. |
Check out all the past Sustainability Award winners, nominees and projects here.
