Engagement Case Studies
Engagement Case Studies
Sustainability at Warwick
Community engagement, partners and networks are a crucial part of our University's journey towards a more sustainable future. Find out more about our work with local, regional, national, and international partners in these sustainability case studies.
Sustainability Curriculum Mapping
Click hereLink opens in a new window to see our sustainability curriculum mapping work so far at Warwick.

Sustainability and Gamification: Building Habits Through Rewards
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.

Campus comes together for newts on the move
The Energy and Sustainability team with the help of amazing volunteers relocated 135 amphibians this season.

Sustainability in the Curriculum
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.

Sustainability and Student Leadership: Activism in Education
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.

Sustainability and Individual Action: How One Person Transforms Campus Culture
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.

Teaching for a Sustainable Future: Embedding Sustainability Across Disciplines
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.

Tata Power and University of Warwick Forge Strategic Alliance in New Energy Systems Innovation
The University of Warwick has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tata Power, India’s leading integrated power company, to deliver research and innovation in grid modernisation, fast charging, power storage, industrial decarbonisation, digital energy systems, optimisation and advanced manufacturing approaches.

Warwick Wins Big Hog Friendly Litter Pick Challenge
After building momentum with a Top 3 finish in the past two years, the University of Warwick has won the universities category of the Big Hog Friendly Litter Pick Challenge for the first time, recognising the University’s ongoing efforts to reduce litter and protect wildlife on campus and in the local community.

University of Warwick showcases Coventry’s digital inclusion and tech reuse success at Houses of Parliament
The University of Warwick joined partners at the Houses of Parliament to present CovConnects’ achievements in promoting digital inclusion and tech reuse in Coventry, tackling the digital divide through collaboration.

Getting Muddy for a Good Cause: Volunteers Dive Into Coppicing Sessions
Our coppicing session brings together student and staff volunteers to support woodland health while creating positive social impact. Coppicing encourages new growth and increases biodiversity by allowing more light to reach the woodland floor, supporting a wider range of plants and wildlife and helping to build a more resilient ecosystem.

The housing crisis won’t be solved until planners put homes where people actually want to live
Dr Amrita Kulka and Dr Nikhil Datta have analysed billions of UK homebuyer searches, rental and sales listings, actual build patterns, and planning applications in a bid to discover why decades of house building targets haven’t solved the UK’s housing problems.

Mental Health Champions
Our Community Engagement team is leading a school-based youth-focused mental health initiative in Coventry. The project aims to empower local pupils with the knowledge, confidence, and skills to support mental health and well-being among their peers.
Curriculum Development Hub: Inclusive, responsive and sustainability-aligned curricula across Warwick
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.
Warwick Celebrates Five Years of EUTOPIA Connected Communities
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.

Endangered crayfish move into ‘5-star hotel’ on Warwick campus
Thirty white-clawed crayfish have just moved into a specially prepared ‘5-star hotel’ on campus, where they’ll be safe from invasive species and provided with everything they need to thrive.

New national initiative to educate the public on automated vehicles (AVs)
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.

WMG to manage new HVM Catapult site
The High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult has officially opened a new cutting-edge digital factory hub in Baglan, South Wales.

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

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

The Global Illuminations Procession: Recycled Wings – Moths for the Procession
Celebrating Biodiversity, Creativity and Sustainability at Warwick

Seeds, Soil & Sustainability
As part of the University of Warwick’s 60th Anniversary celebrations, over 300 visitors joined us at the Innovation Campus in Wellesbourne for a vibrant day of discovery.

Creating Accountability to Gender in Affordable Housing- A Toolkit for Practical Change
This toolkit provides a detailed resource that demonstrates gender inclusion in affordable housing delivery within low-income contexts.

The Museum of Climate Stories
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.

Retrofit Rocks! Creating sustainable communities
Researchers in the Department of Economics are developing a place-based approach to housing retrofitting.

Wild Warwick - Recap!
Wild Warwick was a new project for 2024/2025, aiming to promote wildlife and green spaces on campus. Read the case study to find out more.

Establishing a UK supply chain for electric machine manufacture
The University of Warwick’s WMG was awarded £5.7m by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to form an electrifying Prosperity Partnership with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). WMG and JLR have been accelerating their electrification journey, and JLR is on the road to achieving carbon net zero by 2039.

Novel, e-assisted cargo trike launches
WMG is collaborating with Pashley Cycles and three other SME across the Midlands to develop an electrically assisted, last mile delivery trike.
Intelligent Vehicles
WMG, as part of a consortium led by ConigitalLink opens in a new window working on the Multi-Area Connected Automated Mobility (MACAM) project, which aims to establish a remote driving control hub that will oversee self-driving vehicles, placing Coventry at the driving force of transport innovation.
University of Warwick signs agreement with agronomy specialist to bring UK beans to market
The University of Warwick’s research commercialisation wing, Warwick Innovations, has signed a contract with agronomy specialist Agrii to promote the commercial production of UK haricot beans developed by scientists at the University of Warwick.