Sustainability
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Faculty Sustainability Committee
- John Draper (Chair) - Division of Psychology & Language Sciences
- Jeremy Skipper - Division of Psychology & Language Sciences
- Jill Cowing - Institute of Ophthalmology
- Stefanie Czieso - Queen Square Institute of Neurology
- Sarah Lawson - Queen Square Institute of Neurology
- Caitlin Broadbent - Ear Institute
- Simon Mead - Institute of Prion Diseases
- Bella Vivat - Division of Psychiatry
- Sabine Tobf - Student representative
- Ekaterina Stoilova - Student representative
- Joanna Marshall-Cook - Sustainable UCL
- Rosie McAlonan - Faculty Comms
- Geoff Dunk - Faculty Director of Operations
- Sanjay Sisodiya - Deputy Director, Queen Square Institute of Neurology
- Jo Hale - Centre for Behaviour Change (PALS)
- Faith Poyser (Admin Support) - Faculty Office
Green Impact in the Faculty of Brain Sciences
Our Green Champions lead a network of staff and students who work together to review practices, develop policies and promote best practice.
Please get in touch with your Green Champion if you'd like to join your Institute or Divisional team or if you're keen to become a Green Champion yourself – all students and staff are welcome.
- Faculty Lead Green Champion
- John Draper
- Ear Institute Green Champions
- Caitlin Broadbent
- Ricky Kemp
- Queen Square Institute of Neurology Green Champions
- Sarah Lawson
- Stephanie Czieso
- Division of Psychiatry Green Champions
- Kirsten Moore
- Yana Kitova
- Bridget Candy
- Michaela Poppe
- Rebecca Jones
- Tayla McCloud
- Francesca Solmi
- Annie Jeffery
- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences Green Champion
- John Draper
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Green Champions
- Anouchka Sterling
- Safia Chaudhary
- Institute of Ophthalmology Green Champions
- Jill Cowing
- Constance Maurer
- Abi Li
- Olive Byrne
- Georgia Milne
- James Wyles
- Karen Frudd
- Will Lamb
- Dhani Tracey-White
- Institute of Prion Diseases and MRC Prion Unit at UCL Green Champions
- Simon Mead
- Ryan Peter
- Tamsin Nazari
UCL's 2022 Sustainability Awards
The Faculty performed extremely well in UCL’s Green Impact and LEAF programmes, designed to make offices and labs more sustainable, achieving the following awards:
Green Impact Office Awards – Silver:
- Ear Institute Team
Green Impact Office Awards – Gold:
- Dementia Research Centre (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology)
- Division of Psychiatry
- Institute of Ophthalmology
- Institute of Ophthalmology Library
- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
- Queen Square Library
- UCL Language & Speech Science Library
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Admin
LEAF Awards for Sustainable Laboratories – Bronze:
- Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre
- Institute of Ophthalmology BSU
LEAF Awards for Sustainable Laboratories – Silver:
- Ear Institute Labs
- MRC Prion Unit at UCL, Institute of Prion Diseases
- Neuroinflammation
- Imaging Neurosciences
- Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
LEAF Awards for Sustainable Laboratories – Gold:
- Neurodegenerative Disease
- Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
- UK DRI at UCL
- Neuromuscular Diseases
- Institute of Ophthalmology labs
- Psychology and Language Sciences LEAF Lab
To honour all of the winners, Sustainable UCL donated 315 trees to the UCL Grove, sequestering 18,900kg of carbon *(one tree can consume approximately 60kg of CO2 from the atmosphere). Sustainable UCL also handed out award certificates printed on seeded paper, inviting all recipients to grow wild flowers from their certificates.