Engaging Staff in the Transition
Report by Mike Snyder on our strategy and action plan to connect our work with support and academic staff at the University of Edinburgh.
TEU Staff Engagement Strategy and Action Plan
Final CCF Report
Our final report to the Climate Challenge Fund.
Edinburgh Sustainability Week 2010 Report (Broken link updated)
Report including a summary of activities and events, and a discussion on their impacts.
Download the 2010-11 Green Week Report, “Edinburgh Sustainability Week”
Contradictions Found in Sustainable Education at Transition – A discussion
Student Christy McGillivray reported on “Sustainability in Higher Education: Managing the Contradiction with Transition Edinburgh University” for her MSc dissertation, October 2010. Read it on-line here.
Transition Edinburgh University explained on video
In October 2010 Transition Edinburgh University presented their work to the Estates & Buildings as part of the lunch-time briefings series of events. You can re-watch the presentation in the video below.
An Engagement Strategy for Transition Edinburgh University
In Semester 2 2009-10, the Masters course “Participation in Policy and Planning” (contact Roger Sidaway) undertook as their course project to build an engagement strategy for Transition. Their plan, based on interviews with those inside and out of Transition Edinburgh University, highlights key problems and recommendations to address them.
They presented their plan to stakeholders at the Scottish Parliament on 16 March 2010, and you can click the links to download their report and presentation.
University Footprints, Community Handprints Event
In March 2010 people from 12 universities attended a day of workshops and discussion at Edinburgh about students and staff using practical projects to make our Universities fit for the future.
The event, organised by NUS Scotland, People & Planet, and Transition Edinburgh University looked at questions like “how can University green projects work together”, “how to get funding for practical projects”, and showcased ideas such as People & Planet’s Going Greener campaign.
- Event summary (pdf)
Footprints and Handprints: The Edinburgh University community’s climate impact and how we can begin reducing it
An inside-out guide of Transition Edinburgh University: where we came from, how we work, the carbon footprint we’re trying to reduce, and some ideas for how to do it.
Download the Footprints & Handprints report in different forms:
- Keynote summary (pdf)
- Full report (pdf)
- Carbon spreadsheet (xls)
- Goods, services and food section (pdf)
Going Greener: Creating Transition Communities Guide
Transition Universities action guide from People & Planet UK including everything you need to get a transition initiative up and running where you are.
Going Greener Guide (pdf)
Transition Edinburgh University Funding Bid
A brief summary of how we went about gaining funding for our work is described in our “Footprints & Handprints” report. We provide our full Climate Challenge Fund application, submitted in September 2009, in order to be transparent in our work and as a potential resource for other organisations. We do however strongly recommend you first read about the bid in the report, or get in touch with us, before delving into our full bid.
- Expression of Interest form (PDF).
- Application Form (PDF), corrected May 2010.
- Finance Tables (XLS).
- Letters of Support (PDF).
- Samples of Community Engagement (PDF).
Note that sections “Attachment 2 – Accounts” and “Attachment 3 – Bank statement” are not included.
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