Education Case Studies

The University of Warwick is strengthening its position as a global research leader through a growing portfolio of international seed funds designed to spark high-impact collaborations and address shared global challenges. These initiatives are already enabling pioneering interdisciplinary projects, deepening academic partnerships, and supporting innovative research with the potential for worldwide societal benefits.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) has a formal partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen joint efforts to advance human rights, gender equality, and inclusion, in global and national digital health governance.

Click hereLink opens in a new window to see our sustainability curriculum mapping work so far at Warwick.

Click hereLink opens in a new window to listen to Josh CleallLink opens in a new window, CEO of Team JumpLink opens in a new window, and Yurong TianLink opens in a new window discuss gamification, sustainability, and Warwick's Green Rewards PlatformLink opens in a new window.

Meet Matthew Hayward, Chemistry graduate (1996), now working as a Director of Power & Life Sciences EMEA at Henkel

Design Ecologies and Regenerative Practice (DI106-30), a core first-year module in Design Studies at Warwick, challenges students to reimagine design through systems thinking, biomimicry, circular economy principles, and life-centred design - developing the next generation of regenerative practitioners.

Click hereLink opens in a new window to listen to Helena RatcliffeLink opens in a new window, Students' Union Ethics and Environment OfficerLink opens in a new window, alongside Luke DaviesLink opens in a new window, Taran TalbottLink opens in a new window, and Finley Arcos-Archard from the Students' UnionLink opens in a new window Sustainability ForumLink opens in a new window, discuss how activism has shifted since COVID.

Click hereLink opens in a new window to listen to Gary StockerLink opens in a new window, Test Engineer and Green Champion at WMG, has spent over five years collecting niche recyclable materials across Warwick.

The second session of the Transatlantic Teaching Exchange SeriesLink opens in a new window brought together educators from over 20 institutions across the UK, US, and Canada to explore how sustainability can be meaningfully embedded in university curricula.

Meet Raul-Rafael Nemeș, Life Sciences and Global Sustainable Development (BASC) graduate (2023), now working as a Sustainability Consultancy at a Love Design Studio.

Meet Dr Ross Jaggers, Chemistry PhD graduate (2018), now working as a Senior Sustainability Manager at Virgin.

Meet Christina Vaschuk, Life Sciences and Global Sustainable Development graduate (2024), now working on sustainable FemTech technologies at Rapid Innovation Group.

Meet Roopal Kanabar, Computer and Management Sciences graduate (2008), and Founder of Sustainabar, an advisory firm providing sustainable investment solutions.

Meet Chemistry graduate Alina Kuzmich (2014), now working as an Energy & Decarbonisation Consultant.

Meet Rob Hebden, Environmental Bioscience graduate (2024), now working as a Sustainability Consultant calculating carbon footprints for businesses.

The Curriculum Development Hub supports individuals and teams to design responsive, inclusive and sustainability-aligned curricula. It offers seminar and workshop series, Design Retreats, the Curriculum Conversations podcast, curated resources and bespoke support for programme and module development. Colleagues can also join a Teams network to stay informed about upcoming opportunities.

The University of Warwick is celebrating five years of transformative collaboration through the EUTOPIA alliance, a significant milestone in its commitment to challenge-led education and inclusive internationalisation across Europe.

WMG at The University of Warwick, has launched the Partners for Automated Vehicle Education United Kingdom Professor Sarah Sharples, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Transport delivering a keynote at the PAVE UK launch event (PAVE UK) with the Department for Business and Trade, the Department for Transport, the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), and Transport for West Midlands, as its founding partners.

Residents of a Coventry neighbourhood have taken part in a project that used virtual reality (VR) to showcase the benefits of energy-efficient homes.

The University of Warwick has been awarded three prizes from this year's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) prize portfolio.

The Museum of Climate Stories is project based at the University of Warwick which explores creative and imaginative ways of responding to the unfolding planetary emergency, by encouraging climate action at a local level.

Dr Tom Ritchie discusses Education for Sustainable Development in higher education with Jo Kukuczka on the new Curriculum Conversations podcast. The conversation builds on Tom's experience of the PGA CDHE programme and explores practical approaches to integrating sustainability into curriculum design at Warwick.

SMLC leads curriculum decolonisation through student-advocate curriculum reviews and pioneering Intercultural Online Exchange with international partners across France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and China.

WBS requires all academic staff to record ESD hours in module approval processes and has integrated sustainability into all MBA core modules.

The PGA CDHE educates Warwick academic staff to embed Education for Sustainable Development into their curricula using the Advance HE ESD framework.

The Community Fridge demonstrates circular economy principles through partnership between Chemistry, Warwick Food Group, and Energy & Sustainability teams.

As part of our STEM Connect Programme, we've developed a series of new sustainability Masters programmes. Learn more here!

All Engineering undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Warwick hold AHEP (Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes) accreditation.

The Beyond Science module uses campus as a Living Lab to support Chemistry students develop their skills through real-world sustainability projects.

Welcome to the Education for Sustainable Development Network, a community dedicated to addressing sustainability through events, resources, and collaboration.

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At Warwick, we equip students with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to tackle the pressing challenges of our time.

With a network of over 1,000 students and 200 staff members from 40 different departments, Green Champions are putting sustainability at the heart of their University of Warwick experience.