There are four broad areas in which you and your team may be able to improve environmental sustainability in your research:
Carefully consider if and how you can make your research plans and everyday practices more sustainable in these areas. Can you, for example, take steps to restrict the use of resources, find greener alternatives, or minimise waste and dispose of it in an environmentally safe manner?
Research aims to build healthy societies, strong economies, and better lives. All of that depends on a healthy environment. So, it makes sense for researchers to work in ways that protect the environment.
Making your work environmentally sustainable will challenge you to rethink the way you conduct your research. It may even lead you to opportunities for financial savings, new research questions, new ways to generate knowledge, and new ways to act on it.
Valuing Voices is a partnership project between colleagues from the University of York and Mahidol University.
Valuing Voices is a two-year project funded by Wellcome under the Institutional Funding for Research Culture grant.
