We know it’s not just about what we offer on the course that makes students choose to study at Warwick. It is also the fact that Warwick offers a great chance to get involved in all sorts of projects, societies and research while you complete your studies. The level of flexibility offered with the Humanitarian Engineering programme lends itself well to giving you the opportunity to get stuck in!

This is because the teaching takes place intensively over one week for each module with typically 2 or 4 weeks between each module (to allow space for completing assessments and pre-reading). With careful planning, you may find you have the capacity to explore and make a difference in other projects Warwick offers.

Below are some of the opportunities that might be of interest depending on your career goals.

Warwick’s Sustainability Hub - is a great place to start having a look at what’s going on, it brings together everything sustainability-related that is going on here at Warwick and gives space for you to start something new.

Projects
At any one time, there can be lots of different projects all tackling some aspect of sustainability at Warwick, all running at the same time. Have a look at what's going on, and feel free to add your own project.

An interesting Project that your department IATL are sponsoring is the Nest Project. It is a student-led initiative to promote sustainability while aiming to build a strawbale building on campus. For more information please take a look at their independent website; https://www.nestproject.co.uk/ 

Societies

Is it a clique to say the list is endless! Well, it might not be endless, but there are so many different societies offering so many different opportunities to allow students to get involved, create and develop projects, expertise and gain invaluable experience while making a real difference. A selection is below but there are many more;

• Engineers without Borders
• Warwick Sustainable Development Society (WSDS)
• Warwick Climate Reality Campus Corps (Facebook link)
• Warwick Global Sustainable Development society (Facebook link)
• Warwick International Development Society
• Globus

There may also be opportunities to get involved in research projects as well. At the moment we have a set of students, paid through our research budget, looking at how approaching teaching from an interdisciplinary approach can make a difference in how, as a society, we can tackle global problems, addressing causes, considering preventative approaches, and implementing suitable responses. We also have a set of students involved in wellbeing research. There will be many more options and perhaps you would like to suggest something.