The big green lab project

In 2005, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) stated that ‘the greatest contribution a university can make to sustainable development is through the education of their graduates’. The University of Bradford took up the gauntlet, embedding sustainable development in all areas of its campus while also transforming the curriculum across the university to educate for sustainable development. This led to them coining themselves an ecoversity.

Beverley Lucas and her colleagues introduce the Ecoversity of Bradford, explaining their dedication to integrating sustainable development and STEM subjects. They discuss their refitted chemistry teaching lab, curriculum interventions and data they've gathered from a survey investigating student knowledge of responsible science, conducted both before and after the refitting of the chemistry lab.