Teaching and Learning on Campus

The UCL Living Lab is an opportunity for students and staff to solve UCL’s sustainability challenges through research, teaching, dissertations and projects.

What is a Living Lab project?

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Living Lab projects provide real-life learning opportunities for students, and opportunities for research impact for academics whilst helping us meet UCL's ambitious sustainability commitments. 

A Living Lab project should: 

• Be aligned to UCL's Sustainability Strategy;
• Aim to solve a real-life problem and make UCL more sustainable; 
• Create an open source culture by sharing data and knowledge found with Sustainable UCL; 
• Be framed around at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals;
• Be a partnership among key stakeholders, often crossing disciplinary and/or sectoral boundaries.

Dissertation Topics and Guidance

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For students in need of inspiration on Living Lab projects, we have collated examples of dissertation topics to consider along with disseration guidance.  

> Sustainability Dissertation Topics

Embedding Sustainability into the Curriculum

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For teachers we have created specific guidance on how to embed sustainability into the curriculum

> Staff Resources for Sustainable Education

Sustainable Research 

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For researchers, we can provide support on how to trial research ideas of innovative sustainability solutions on campus. 

Data

To support Living Lab projects we can provide the following data: 

• Energy data for buildings and departments;
• Some water consumption data for buildings;
• Some travel data for departments;
• Data on behaviour change and engagement with the UCL community on sustainability topics;
• Information on sustainability projects across UCL: we can connect you with other researchers and staff solving UCL’s sustainability challenges;
• Information on sustainable buildings;
• Data on UCL’s supply chains, modern-day slavery principles and products bought and re-used across UCL;
• Information on policy.

We encourage you to connect with other environmental researchers across UCL through the UCL Environment Domain. 

Get in touch​ →

 

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