University of Plymouth shortlisted for three accolades at the Green Gown Awards

@PlymUni has been shortlisted three times at this year’s @GreenGown Awards – the national programme that recognises excellence in sustainability across higher and further education.

The University is a finalist in the 2030 Climate Action category, which looks at steps that institutions are taking towards radically cutting their carbon footprints.

And it is shortlisted twice in the Research with Impact category for projects being conducted in Africa to address global issues of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder and soil erosion.

The first concerns education and rehabilitation programmes that are addressing COPD in Uganda – work that has subsequently been extended to other developing countries such as Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan and Sri Lanka.

This has included specific projects to educate pregnant mothers, via midwives, on the dangers of exposure to smoke inhalation from cooking fires; rehabilitation using culturally-adapted dance and music; the creation of educational materials in collaboration with Illustration students at the University; and crowd-funding for a lung-health medical centre.

The second, Jali Ardhi, is an ongoing interdisciplinary research project that has been working to address soil erosion in Tanzania. Geographers at the University have used scientific methods to identify underlying factors causing the issue, but it’s been through social science that they have worked with community stakeholders at all levels – including the Maasai herdsmen – to help them co-create solutions.

Both projects have received extensive international research funding, and are supported by the Sustainable Earth Institute.

The University has won numerous Green Gown Awards in the past decade, across teaching and for the way it operates its campus. Run by the EAUC, in conjunction with UKRI, the Green Gowns will be announced next spring.

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The University is a finalist in the 2030 Climate Action category, which looks at steps that institutions are taking towards radically cutting their carbon footprints.

And it is shortlisted twice in the Research with Impact category for projects being conducted in Africa to address global issues of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder and soil erosion.

The first concerns education and rehabilitation programmes that are addressing COPD in Uganda – work that has subsequently been extended to other developing countries such as Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan and Sri Lanka.

This has included specific projects to educate pregnant mothers, via midwives, on the dangers of exposure to smoke inhalation from cooking fires; rehabilitation using culturally-adapted dance and music; the creation of educational materials in collaboration with Illustration students at the University; and crowd-funding for a lung-health medical centre.