Engagement
Engagement Statement
While Bangor University is directly responsible for many of the impacts of its operations, it relies on its community of students and staff to contribute significantly to modifying its overall impacts through personal and group actions.
The University actively encourages its students and staff to make long lasting and far-reaching sustainable behaviour changes to not only enable it to make continual sustainable improvements to institutional operations and practices, but also to enable those students and staff to take their new behaviours into all areas of their lives both within and outside the University.
Details of current and previous staff and student campaigns can be found here. Including the staff and student 25 by 25 sustainability campaign, launched in November 2022, and aiming to reduce 25% of carbon emissions by 2025.
The University supports and funds staff and student-led sustainability projects through a number of budgets.
Environmental Awareness and Communication
We have developed an Environmental Management System (EMS) to support our commitment to achieving continual environmental improvement. The EMS is certified to the prestigious ISO14001:2015 environmental standard. A Campus Environmental Performance Team has been established to ensure as much engagement and inclusion as possible.
- Environmental Management System
- Environmental Awareness and Communication
- Environmental Annual Reports
- Environmental Targets and Objectives
Welcome Week - Students
All students will attend the compulsory health, safety and environment inductions when they start at the University. In addition, we have produced the following video to explain further about the sustainability and environment work we do and how you can help us.
Induction - New Staff
We take immense pride in the quality of our environment at Bangor University, and we are committed to its protection and enhancement. That means thinking about the impacts of everything we do, and whether, from an environmental perspective, it can be done better. With an estate of over 100 buildings across 346 hectares, as well as a complement of approximately 10,000 students and 2,000 staff, we recognise the implications of our impact on the environment.
All new staff will either attend the compulsory health, safety and environment induction in person or complete the online version. The below link details our Staff Handbook and details on accessing the induction material.
- Staff Health, Safety and Environment Induction & Handbook
- Staff Sustainability and Environment Induction
Sustainability Information and Events from around the University
January 2024
November 2023
Advanced approaches to Creating a Learning Culture - November 23
Achieving resilient, just and sustainable food systems everywhere: what’s the problem? - November 17
Lakes: The Sentinels of Climate Change, by Dr Iestyn Woolway - November 14
Festival of Social Science – Let’s Explore Wellbeing Panel Discussion - November 8
Festival of Social Science – Let’s Explore Wellbeing - November 8
Brambell Natural History Museum Open Day - November 4
October 2023
Bangor University Students Cook Up a Free Storm on the High Street
Recycling used wood can make a big contribution to net zero but it needs much better coordination
Shops can’t save UK high streets but a dose of local character could help them thrive again
COVID-19: Media failed to highlight the negative impact of single-use facemasks on the environment
University welcomed Ireland-Wales Ministerial Forum
Most people would welcome more trees and wildflower meadows in their townscapes
Introduction to Creating a Learning Culture - October 19
Undeb Bangor clothes swap - October 18
Black History Month: Celebrate and Elevate - October 18
Revealing the true extent of tropical forest loss from rubber plantations
We need to move beyond the goal of growing GDP
Infection Prevention Best Practice and Behaviours MOOC - Oct 16 - Dec 11
Bangor team shortlisted for the 2023 Impact Awards
Bangor University Community Day - October 14
Switch out the meat before the milk in your shopping basket to tackle climate change
Ethiopian packaging project to offer a helping hand to female farmers
Powering the Energy Island and its People - October 5
Engage: lectures in Engineering, Computing and Design - October 4
Testing an ‘Appeeling’ Solution to the UK Obesity Crisis that’s ‘Made in Wales’
CELT Conference 2023: Enhancing Our Education
Researchers leading work on the impact of short breaks for unpaid carers
September 2023
Gwynedd Dementia Centre for people living with dementia and their unpaid carers comes to Bangor
Anticipating obsolescence- the next step to enhancing the sustainability of aquaculture
Global Study Reveals Extensive Impact of Metal Mining Contamination on Rivers and Floodplains
Theories about the natural world may need to change to reflect human impact
Bangor Business School launches new data analytics programmes in response to industry demand
New theory disproves Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Rule of Trees’
Treborth Botanic Garden NGS Open Garden for Charity - September 16
An economic model that supports communities
Bangor University to open its doors to the local community this autumn
Survey reveals ‘very rural’ as least concerned about climate change
Bangor scientists design fuel that would sustain life on the Moon
August 2023
Sustainability, Law and the Future in Boduan
‘Worthless’ forest carbon offsets risk exacerbating climate change
North Wales Police extends PEQF partnership with Bangor University
Pen Llŷn Ecomuseum (Ecoamgueddfa) at the Eisteddfod
Entrepreneurial graduate Michal takes more than a degree
Off-shore wind will lead our journey to NetZero, but at what cost to our seas?
Don’t just wait for the water firms – three things we can do right now to clean up Britain’s rivers
AI threatens to add to the growing wave of fraud but is also helping tackle it
Coral reefs need simultaneous land-sea management for survival in a warming ocean
Technological breakthrough may be key to overcoming current 5G network limitations
Bangor University at the National Eisteddfod of Wales 2023 - August 5th to 12th
Bangor University part of a new alliance for arts & humanities research in Wales
July 2023
Giving AI direct control over anything is a bad idea – here’s how it could do us real harm
Livestock innovation project awarded funding to transform sustainability of ruminant farming
Welsh Government and M-SParc announce £2.5m to support innovation
Working with Meta on mixed reality ocean worlds
Linking the mechanics of lake heatwaves and potentially poisonous blooms
Bangor University wetland project recognised at national awards
First cohort of PEQF officers graduate from Bangor University
How to recognise a temperate rainforest in Britain and Ireland when you see one
Celebrate diversity if we want to grow our economy
Man-made materials are widespread in birds’ nests
Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated
June 2023
New Welsh language podcast shares experiences beyond a dementia diagnosis
Ecological doom-loops: why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected
Glacier surface temperature on the rise at the ‘roof of the world’
Using roaming robots to better understand the ocean - June 26th
Research throws further light on how El Niño impacts coral reef survival
Saving an ancient rice grown on the roof of the world
Giving your research a voice in parliament - June 14th
Bangor University opens doors for aspiring young engineers - June 14th
Draig Beats Festival 2023 – a chorus of community collaboration - June 10th
Bangor university’s new open-source app facilitates research into regional and minority languages
Plans unveiled for ambitious second Science Park building
Bangor University 16th in UK for sustainability in new THE impact rankings
May 2023
Project to record impact of noise on marine mammals
Bangor University named amongst top ten collaborative institutions in health economics research
Science Park and AMRC Cymru join forces to ignite innovation across north Wales
Lakes reflect the pace of shifting seasons
Health minister opens new wastewater monitoring lab at Bangor University
Bangor University named one of the UK's most wildlife-friendly, according to new data
Training the leaders of the future in sustainable management of tourism destinations and businesses
Bangor University pledges to tackle mental health stigma in the workplace
ClicherComm: Climate change, Cultural heritage and Communication in North Wales - May 10th
April 2023
Treborth Botanic Garden celebrates international accreditation success
Bangor University showcases research to Chief Scientific Adviser for Wales
Treborth Botanic Garden - Early Spring Plant Sale - April 15th
Bangor University to lead the roll out of the Children’s University in North-West Wales
How to create an effective environmental citizen science program - April 12th
Bangor University research informs RNLI safety warning
March 2023
The UK’s first climate refugees: why more defences may not save this village from rising sea levels
New glass sensors could make commercial nuclear fusion viable
Workshop in employability for Animal Behaviour researchers - March 28th
Next epidemic could be spotted early in wastewater, say scientists
Former staff member receives honour from Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol for widening access work
Outreach event: Linking castles and sea, people and science - March 21st
Mind the (economic) gap? The Future of Ireland Wales relations post Brexit - March 21st
International Women's Day - March 8th
Tree Sense -
A multi-disciplinary exhibition - March 3rd-May 27th
February 2023
Prince Madog research vessel to be powered by hydrogen in £5.5m Transship II project
Transforming the future of Welsh
Workshop: Linking castles and sea, people and science - February 21st & 27th
The local, UK and global economic headwinds
A day of free talks to celebrate LGBTQ+ history month - February 21st
Improvisation Day in collaboration with the Bangor Music Festival - February 17th
Students create products using sustainable Welsh wool
Rugby Union: Reduce non-contact injury by increasing preseason training load
Earth has lost one-fifth of its wetlands since 1700 – but most could still be saved
Businesses in Wales and Ireland are being invited to a free online event to help them develop health and wellbeing in the workplace - February 7th & 9th
January 2023
Bangor University shares expert knowledge with RNLI to reduce tidal cut-offs
Ancestral variation guides future environmental adaptations
First Minister visits Bangor and announces North Wales Medical School next steps
Free course - Infection Prevention Best Practice and Behaviours - January 23rd-March 19th
Protecting and regenerating tropical mangroves
Restoring oysters to Conwy Bay project receives funding
Underwater noise is a threat to marine life
Wastewater monitoring programme extended to include hospitals and monitoring beyond COVID-19
Bangor University collaborates with partners to improve green space initiatives
Why being bilingual can open doors for children with developmental disabilities, not close them