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Collective SCFS consortium secures new partnership with Coventry City Council to transform local green and blue spaces

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:34:00 GMT

Select individuals of our academic team, led by IGSD, will collaborate with Coventry City Council on a new initiative to revitalise the city’s green and blue spaces, following the success of a proposal that secured almost £100K for Warwick as part of a project worth nearly £1M in total funding for the next three years.

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New Project Inspires Diverse Voices in Environmental Science

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:19:42 GMT

An exciting new initiative facilitated by a SCFS academic is aiming to reshape how environmental science careers are imagined and pursued.

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Warwick Students Visit Design and Science Summer School in Slovenia

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:01:11 GMT

Supported by EUTOPIA funding, between 8th - 12th July 2024 three students from the School for Cross-Faculty Studies (SCFS) attended the fourth Design + Science Summer School.

Hosted by the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) in their Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO), the Summer School was structured around various phases of learning.

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Design Studies Staff Run Engaging Esports Camp for Young Aspiring Game Designers

Tue, 28 May 2024 15:56:22 GMT

Two academics from Warwick’s newly established Design division recently delivered a range of engaging activities for an Esports camp aimed at young aspiring game designers.

Over the Easter holidays, Dr Edward Loveman and Dr James MacKrill were involved in a holiday camp for young attendees aged 4-16, who were able to experience the process of designing games based around sustainability and environmental awareness issues.

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Global Sustainable Development Competition: Entry Now Open!

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:58:00 GMT

Entry for the 2022 Global Sustainable Development (GSD) Competition is now open. Entries must be received by midnight UK time on Friday 29 April 2022. Shortlisted entrants will be invited to a virtual event with GSD students and teaching staff. Winners will be announced and awarded prizes.

Warwick Sutton Scholars 2021: Food and sustainable development

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Warwick Sutton Scholars is a two-year programme for Year 8 and 9 students from under-represented backgrounds in higher education across the West Midlands. Coordinated by Warwick's Widening Participation and Outreach team, the aim of the programme is to inspire students to consider university as an option for the future.

The Year 9 programme is run in collaboration with the GSD Department. Due to the pandemic, this year the programme was run entirely online, with more (shorter) events. The participants worked in groups on a research project titled 'Every Plate Tells a Story', aimed at addressing a problem linked to food and sustainable development. They established a research question, conducted primary research (surveys), and designed an intervention aimed at tackling the problem.

Congratulations to the winners of the Global Sustainable Development Competition!

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:18:35 GMT

Each year we run the Global Sustainable Development Competition. This is an exciting opportunity for school students in year 11 and 12 (aged between 15 and 17 years) to think creatively and gain valuable research skills as they learn more about global sustainable development. In the five years that we have run the competition, this year we have received the highest number of entries yet!

A look back on this year's Warwick Sutton Scholars Year 9 scheme

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:39:11 GMT

Warwick Sutton Scholars is a two-year programme for highly able Year 8 and 9 students from under-represented backgrounds in higher education across the West Midlands. The aim of the programme, coordinated by Maria Kehr (Widening Participation and Outreach team), is to inspire students to consider university as an option for the future.

The Year 9 programme is run in collaboration with our Department. The programme consists of a two-day residential and several campus days, culminating with a graduation event.

The GSD team involved in the programme this year included two GSD student ambassadors, Hana Chua (final-year single honours GSD student) and Marina Zorila (final-year Economic Studies and GSD student), working under the guidance of Dr Marta Guerriero, Associate Professor in GSD, to design and deliver the academic content of the programme. GSD student ambassador Elizabeth Disdel (second-year Philosophy and GSD student) was also involved in one of the campus days.

Year 12* competition: Entry now open

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:21:00 GMT

Each year, the Global Sustainable Development (GSD) Department at the University of Warwick runs a competition for year 12* students. The competition was established to engage with talented school students and give insight into the type of thought-provoking issues involved in studying GSD at Warwick.

This is an exciting opportunity for students to think creatively and gain valuable research skills as they learn more about global sustainable development. Since it was established, we have expanded the types of entries that can be submitted to include videos, podcasts and poetry, as well as more traditional essay responses. This is in line with our overall aim to engage with students from a variety of different backgrounds and interests, giving them the chance to present their unique perspectives on issues of global sustainable development.

Entry for the 2020 year 12* competition is now open. Entries must be received by midnight (UK time) on Friday 10 April 2020.

Shortlisted entrants will be invited to a Campus Day at Warwick on Saturday 27 June 2020 with GSD students and teaching staff. Winners will be announced and awarded prizes.

To find out more about the competition, how to enter and look at past entries, please see here.

^{*Year 12 in the UK or sixteen to seventeen-year-old age group equivalent}

Congratulations to James Rennie and Finn Deacon for winning the 2019 GSD Year 12 Competition!

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:03:00 GMT

Global Sustainable Development hosts an annual competition for Year 12 students across the country, encouraging students to think creatively and gain valuable research skills as they learn more about global sustainable development.

We were very impressed with the quality of submissions this year, which were very well researched and well presented. The shortlisted entrants were invited to a Campus Day at Warwick on 29th June, to have a feel of what it means to be a GSD student at Warwick. The day ended with the prize giving, where the following prizes were awarded:

Best Essay: James Rennie

Best Video: Finn Deacon