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Be the Ripple
We’re proud to launch Be the Ripple: UCL’s new campaign celebrating the everyday actions that spark extraordinary impact.
From grassroots student activism to innovation and research, our community is driving real change. This campaign shines a light on the individuals and initiatives that embody our belief: every ripple starts a wave.
Through inspiring lectures, hands-on workshops, and bold sustainability efforts, we’re showing how local actions at UCL can shape a more just, climate-positive future globally.
Join us, share your story, and help create a lasting impact - the ripple starts here.
Explore the faces of our new campaign:
Jamie Bragg
PhD Student in Electronic Engineering -I’m part of the SU Sustainability Council. We’ve created a campaign encouraging students to use banks that don’t fund fossil fuels.
Alice Chave
UCL alumna, Founder of Incador. Myself and my sister are co-founders of Incador, a fine jewellery brand that creates jewellery using gold recycled from electronic waste.
Karen Chave
UCL Alumna, Founder of Incador - Myself and my sister are co-founders of Incador, a fine jewellery brand that creates jewellery using gold recycled from electronic waste.
Stephen Dering
Head of Inclusive Spaces and Places - I lead a team of inclusion specialists that work collaboratively across the UCL estate. Inclusion and accessibility is a crucial cross-cutting theme woven throughout the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ava Langridge
UCL Student, Earth Sciences BSc - As Founder & Executive Director of Our Youth 4 the Climate, a global youth-led climate education organisation, I work to make climate literacy accessible worldwide.
Eshka Chuck
Training officer, Inclusive Environments - I work to create training content for staff working in the built environment to provide awareness and understanding of inclusive design considerations.
Carol Yuen
UCL Student, LLM in Environmental Law - I am a Master's in Environmental Law student and UCL Sustainability Ambassador, working to reduce climate change impacts and promote a more just world.
Naam Ghedia
UCL Student, Natural Sciences - I worked with Dr. Liz Munday over the summer on a project related to solvent recycling of acetone. We also recycling solvent mixtures and recorded recovery so to prevent waste when students use this in term time.
Liz Munday
Lecturer (Teaching) in Organic Chemistry - I am passionate about sustainability in teaching and in the laboratory. I am leading our solvent recycling project which drastically reduces our solvent consumption, waste disposal and overall carbon footprint by up to 80%, in the chemistry department.
Kat Aedy
Access and Inclusive Design Specialist - In my Inclusive Environments role, I ensure that inclusive design is considered at the earliest design stage possible.
Ellie Nash
Clinical Lecturer at UCL Medical School - I am the Planetary Health and Sustainability Lead at the Medical school. My role involves embedding Planetary health and sustainable healthcare into the undergraduate curriculum.
Valentina Chang
Zero Food Waste UCL Project Leader. Along with Savina Hui and Carson Chan, I lead Zero Food Waste UCL, a student-led volunteering project which aims to tackle food waste on campus.
Siyao Li
UCL Student, BASc. Arts and Sciences - I’m a research intern for a water security and sustainability project, researching on how climate change may have influenced the flood situation in Bangladesh.
Betty Boyse
Molecular Ecology Research Fellow - I am working with Joanne Littlefair on her FLF fellowship using airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) to enhance biodiversity monitoring across taxa (plants, fungi, insects, birds, mammals).
Iris Su
UCL Student, MFA Fine Art - Exposed, Revealed, Emerged, Reborn: A Junk Animation" is an experimental cameraless film created using the phytogram technique. By embedding discarded objects alongside organic plant matter, the film captures their direct interaction with light and chemistry.
Anna Candlin
UCL Alumna (Slade MFA) - As a sculptor, I try to mitigate my carbon footprint as much as possible by mainly using materials which are organic, biodegradable or discarded.
Batool Wajiha Zaidi
UCL Student, BASc Arts and Sciences - I created a policy brief with 14 students at UCL to make sustainability policy recommendations, which were implemented to bring you an induction sustainability course and a new interdisciplinary ESD module.
Jodie Lilley
Research Technician - I work with researchers in the People and Nature Lab to develop new techniques in biodiversity monitoring and ecology.
Cameron Gordon
UCL Student, Head of Media Task Force, Sustainability Council - I aim to contribute to sustainability at UCL by inspiring students and staff to live more sustainably.
Alexandra Krištofovičová
UCL Student, BSc Biodiversity and Conservation - As Director of Curriculum at Our Youth For The Climate (OY4C), I lead the development of our flagship initiative: the OY4CCurriculum.
Iain Borden
Professor of Architecture & Urban Culture - I teach and research on how people engage with architecture and city spaces after these places have been designed and built – in person, through film and photography, or through other media.
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