Institute for Sustainability

How sustainable are your flowers? 💐 ❓🌼❓ ➡ Our Fellow Dr Jill Timms together with Andy Heslop from the Chobham Flower Farm will be sharing their knowledge on flowers. With hands-on demonstrations, this free event will inspire attendees to enhance the blooms they give, enjoy or display.   Tuesday 5th November, 7 - 8pm More details and how to register 👇

The whole team at the Institute is delighted for you Professor Prashant Kumar! Fantastic!

Fellows of the Institute for Sustainability Professor Amelia Hadfield, Ian Christie, Birgitta Gatersleben, Noreen O'Meara will be speaking at the upcoming Green Means Go 2.0 event, discussing how can we work together to make the Surrey region more sustainable, for everyone. It isn't too late to register. 👇

Last week, vHive (Veterinary Health Innovation Engine) Incubator delivered a #bespoke learning session for companies in the #AnimalHealth sector. The session covered a whole range of topics regarding sustainability in the Animal Health sector, especially in terms of regulations and business strategies. From the Institute for Sustainability, Fellows, Dr Shimaa Elkomy and Professor Bonnie Buchanan, PhD, provided academic insights. Dr Elkomy presented on the global sustainability challenges in the animal health sector and suggested opportunities that companies could have to become leaders in embedding sustainability, based on #KPIs (key performance indicators). Professor Buchanan highlighted how transparency and trustworthiness in operations and management are strongly linked to financial sustainability. She also shared the findings from her research on #CSR (corporate social responsibility), #PrivateInvesting, and #SustainableInvesting. External speakers also came in to share industry perspectives. Jocelyn Orr from Sainsbury's, one of the largest chains of supermarkets in the UK, introduced the company’s approach towards #sustainability while highlighting how their #InnovationStrategy depends on the nature of the supply chain of each product group. Shari Westerfeld from Zoetis, the world’s largest #pharmaceutical company in Animal Health, explained how sustainability is at the root of the company’s #governance, #operations, and #management, and shared a range of examples of recent progress including Scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction, carbon neutrality goal, and innovative packaging design which contributed to significant waste reduction. Finally, Alisa Heimann and Leeneshwari Makhijani from Butternut Box | B Corp, the largest manufacturer of #FreshDogFood in Europe, shared their remarkable #SustainabilityJourney over recent years and the upcoming aspirations to mark their position as the leading #SustainableBusiness in the market. After the talks, the delegates gathered in groups to discuss challenges and solutions around promoting sustainability in their businesses and the wide Animal Health sector. The attendees shared sustainability plans and strategies that are set to tackle the issues most relevant to their organisations. The vHive Incubator is a strategic alliance between Zoetis and the University of Surrey, partnered with SETsquared Surrey. The vHive Incubator provides a range of support for #startup companies to foster the development and #commercialisation of innovative animal health products and technologies. #SDG9 #SDG12 #SDG15 #SDG17 

Very much looking forward to this Exhibition 👇

Transforming Food Systems is an important agenda for the Insitute and increasingly critical for the government. Thanks to all our Fellows and guests for joining and contributing to the workshop yesterday. Prof Monique Raats, Prof Clare Mills and Prof Roberta Sonnino have done a fantastic job in getting us together to map out our research opportunities. #collaboration #foodsystems #researchdevelopment #Policywork Lada Timotijevic, PhD, AFBPsS Professor Prashant Kumar Professor Susan Lanham-New Dr Devendra Saroj James Suckling Surrey Policy Network Charo Hodgkins and all colleagues involved 🙏 🙏 🙏

Thank you Mole Valley District Council for the warm welcome and the opportunity for our Director Nathalie Hinds and Co-Director Thomas Roberts to share thoughts on sustainability, wellbeing, biodiversity, behaviour change and innovation. Collaboration is key. Looking forward to working with organisations from across the district of Mole Valley. #SDGs #collaboration

Congratulations to Jennifer Wen from our Institute for Sustainability on being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Her expertise in fire and explosion modelling has shaped policy and advanced safety measures in hydrogen, carbon storage, and more. Read more about this news on our website: https://ow.ly/aajZ50TpN34

We are looking forward to welcome Fellows, colleagues and friends of University of Surrey to the UK premiere screening of the documentary ‘Purpose’. Thanks to everyone already registered! Fully independently funded and produced by Martin Oetting, Founder and Managing Partner at Omnipolis Media GmbH and Co-founder of GermanZero.  Purpose chronicles the work that Katherine Trebeck and Lorenzo Fioramonti have been doing to introduce "Wellbeing Economics" into politics. Their ambitious political projects aim to create a real alternative to the destructive logic of our current economic model. "System Change Not Climate Change" is one of the key demands of the climate movement. Purpose shows what that looks like in reality. Date: Thursday 19th Sept @4.30pm Stag Hill Campus GU2 7XH Trailer: https://lnkd.in/gSyfJ8Wg RSVP via Eventbrite. Event number: 1010295841057 This UK premiere screening is exclusively brought to Guildford thanks to the support of our colleague Jon Weinbren Programme Director for Film, Animation and Digital Arts, University of Surrey and Director of Sustain Festival. The Institute for Sustainability is collaborating with Jon to bring a Film Festival to Guildford. #Wellbeing Economies #Sustainable Development #change CUSP | Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity Surrey Research Park Forever Surrey Surrey Policy Network

Thanks again to our speakers Dr Idelfonso Nogueira, Ehecatl Antonio del Rio Chanona and Lei Xing for their contributions at the latest workshop 'Advancing chemical engineering science with AI' held at the Institute by the AI and Sustainability programme team. The workshop was led by Michael Short, co-lead of AI for decision support and optimisation, and Erick Sperandio, lead of the AI and Sustainability Programme. The team was focused on improving predictive modelling for better experimental designs, process synthesis, and control. This is part of a series of themed workshops, so stay tuned! #collaboration