The Skills for a Sustainable Future with Liz Hunt

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University of Derby Skills Podcast

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The University of Derby Skills Podcast contains several series designed to help you find success in your time at university. Current Series: Success as a Student Podcast - A series which examines how you can develop the key skills that will help you in finding your version of success as a student. Topics include, getting organised, having a growth mindset and learning from failure. The Assignment Journey: This series unpicks each part of the academic writing process from when you first get your assignment to when it is submitted. RLT Open Knowledge Podcast

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The Skills for a Sustainable Future with Liz Hunt - Success as a Student Podcast

University of Derby Skills Podcast

43 minutes 57 seconds

4 years ago

The Skills for a Sustainable Future with Liz Hunt - Success as a Student Podcast

In this episode, Alex interviews the University of Derby Environment and Sustainability Manager Liz Hunt to discuss the skills that you can develop to help make an impact towards a sustainable future.

We also discuss what is meant by sustainability, are all careers impacted by sustainability, how students can make an impact towards the sustainable development goals and how students can get involved in sustainability.

Find out more about the sustainable development goals: https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Hedgehog Friendly Campus is an amazing sustainability project taking place at Derby and at Universities all over the country. Students and staff are working together to make campuses safer for hedgehogs through positive actions and spreading awareness. To find out more use this link: https://www.derby.ac.uk/about/environment/estate-management/hedgehog-friendly-campus-derby-group/

If you are interested in getting involved you can follow @HedgehogsDerby on Twitter.

Another local organisation that you can get involved with is the Wildlife Trusts. Locally there is the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust (https://www.derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/) and the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust (https://www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk/).

If you have an idea for a way to make the University more sustainable you can contact the relevant officer in the Union of Students. Here is a link to where you can find the information: https://www.derbyunion.co.uk/change/officers/

Success as a Student is a new weekly podcast series hosted on the Derby Uni Library YouTube channel. In this series University of Derby Graduate of the Year Alexander Wood interviews successful students and staff about the skills that will help you find success. If you are interested in seeing episodes as they come out, subscribe to the Derby Uni Library YouTube channel.

If you have any feedback on this episode or the series email library@derby.ac.uk

Other relevant useful episodes:

Enterprise and Networking: https://youtu.be/YbjNJiFHIGc

Organisation: https://youtu.be/E6cHuYNF-PI

Creativity and Problem Solving: https://youtu.be/4PlAL93ykWA

Growth Mindset: https://youtu.be/6PDw51w9Du4

Are Geniuses born or made: https://youtu.be/YR6Xsg0LTPM