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The Wolfson College Interdisciplinary Research Hub on Sustainability & Conservation is experimenting with convening interested individuals and organisations to inform, educate, and explore disruptive solutions to the destruction of the natural world.
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Theory of Change | Events | Living Lab | S&C Stories | Mentoring | S&C Library Collection | People & Getting Involved | News | Donations | Resources | Themes discussed | Cambridge Resilience Webs
Destruction of the natural world is the international problem of our times and a truly interdisciplinary challenge. As the threat of ecological collapse effects us all, our work draws from Wolfson’s international and diverse network, membership and friends to help trigger the deep changes needed to wider global systems. We accomplish this through an interdisciplinary focus, multi-generational collaboration and systems thinking.
With strengths of diversity and subject inclusion, we connect returning professionals, new students from 85+ nations, world-leading researchers and engaged external individuals and organisations. In doing so, we convene a wide variety of disciplines, generations and networks through events, projects, mentoring and more.
We seek to nurture a community of ambition, leadership and action. Utilising our maturity of experience and global reach, we hope to train the future decision makers and thought leaders across disciplines and industries to feel appropriately equipped to speak up for the betterment of the natural world and global society.
Page updated: Fri 16 July 2021
Facebook | Instagram | sc-hub@wolfson.cam.ac.uk | Ms. Golnar Malek (alumnus) testimonial
In our Theory of Change (ToC), we use the metaphor of a tree and the language of ‘branches’ to describe sets of activities that share a characteristic. No one branch is ‘above’ the other, and by growing each branch we nurture the whole community (the trunk). Our ToC is therefore ever-developing and under constant revision. And so it grows. The graphics below are accompanied by a textual strategy document (updated April 2021), describing each branch in greater detail. An interactive ToC graphic is currently in development.
Theory of Change version history:
Version 1.3 - Lee Hall session - 8 Oct 2020
Version 2.1 - Proactive Members and Convenors - 11 Nov 2020
Version 2.2 - Kickstarting a Green 2021 @ Wolfson - 26 Feb 2021
Version 3.1 - Feb-June 2021
Version 3.2 - (current)
Want further information on anything on this page, email: sc-hub@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Keep your eyes peeled for any exciting new events with us. Join our mailing list here to keep up to date with us.
Event | Date (Time) |
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Legal Sustainability: The need to rethink Law Holistically with Markus P. Beham |
Tues 5 April 16:30-17:30 Lee Hall |
AGM (annual general meeting) |
Thur 5 May 17:00-18:00 Online |
Cambridge Green Week 2022 Find out more here |
Mon 2 -Fri 8 May Cambridge |
Wolfson End-of-Year Sustainability Drinks + Nibbles |
Fri 17 June 18:15- 19:30 Fuchs House |
Mon 20 June 15:00-16:00 Lee Hall |
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End of Year S&C Hub Formal Dinner |
Fri 15 Jul 19:15 onwards Dining Hall |
What are the issues you care about |
Thurs 8 Sept 13:00-14:00 Club Room |
Sustainability 101: All course welcome |
Wed 5 Oct 16:00-17:00 Lee Room |
S&C Hub Theory of Change workshop |
Thurs 6 Oct 12:30-13:30 Lee Hall |
Is the Climate Emergency a Failure of Inclusion |
Fri 14 oct 16:00-18:30 Lee Hall |
Sustainability Mentors: meet and greet |
Mon 14 Nov Tba Tba |
Michaelmas term S&C hub green dinner |
Wed 30 Nov 19:00 Dining Hall |
Event |
Date (Time) |
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Kickstarting a Green 2021 @ Wolfson > find the live minutes document here. |
Fri 26 Feb 2021 (16:00-17:00) |
Green Society + S&C Hub collab; Green talk - Climate Fail: How the green movement made climate change worse... And how we can fix it > watch the recording here. |
Wed 7 April (18:00-19:00) |
Milestone: Wolfson Research Event (WRE) |
28 - 30 April |
WRE: Wolfson S&C Stories (posters) > see poster here |
Wed 28 - Fri 30 April |
Monthly meet up |
Fri 30 April |
Tues 4 May (14:30-16:30) |
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COP26: Climate Exp0 - Green Recovery poster presentation (Wolfson S&C Stories) > see poster: Resource Efficiency through Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity |
Mon 17 May |
Monthly meet up |
Fri 28 May |
Monthly meet up |
Fri 25 June |
Milestone: S&C Hub Anniversary Week (S&C AW) |
5 - 11 July |
S&C AW: Pathway to a sustainable future: Wolfson Who's who (Fellows-only) |
Mon 5 July |
S&C AW: Wolfson S&C Stories webpages launch |
Tues 6 July |
Thur 8 July |
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S&C AW: Beyond Net-Zero: what does a regenerative College look like? (Lee Hall) |
Fri 9 July |
S&C AW: S&C Hub Formal Hall (Dining Hall) |
Fri 9 July |
S&C AW: S&C Hub Informal Social (Wolfson bar) |
Sat 10 July |
S&C AW: Annual Report released |
Sun 11 July |
Monthly meet up |
Fri 30 July |
Monthly meet up |
Fri 27 Aug |
Monthly meet up |
Fri 24 Sept |
Thur 7 Oct 12:30-13:30 |
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Milestone: COP26 at Wolfson - Green Week |
18 - 24 Oct |
Monthly meet up |
Fri 29 Oct |
United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference 2021 |
1 - 12 Nov |
S&C Hub Social (last monthly meet up of 2021) |
Fri 26 Nov |
Event | Date (Time) |
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COP26 at Wolfson | Mon 18 Oct- Sun 24 Oct |
Green Society + S&C Hub collab; Green talk - Climate Fail: How the green movement made climate change worse... And how we can fix it |
Wed 7 April (18:00-19:00) |
Kickstarting a Green 2021 @ Wolfson |
Fri 26 Feb 2021 (16:00-17:00) |
Hub Progress + Looking Forward - S&C Hub Open meeting |
Mon 14 Dec 2020 (13:00-14:00) |
ASEAN Emerging Researchers Hub - Challenges in Global Development: Sustainability and Conservation |
Mon 30 Nov 2020 (09:30-11:30) |
Devising our Theory of Change |
Thur 8 Oct 2020 (12:30-13:30) |
Why do we care and the beginnings of action - S&C Hub |
Fri 11 Sept 2020 (13:00-14:30) |
Issues we care about - S&C Hub |
Fri 10 July 2020 (13:00-14:00) |
See this big list of Sustainability Events in Cambridge.
The Wolfson College Living Lab platforms and supports projects that have an actionable or demonstrable ‘green’ impact to the College estate, its community or its wider network.
Visit the Wolfson College Living Lab.
Special thanks to the Hoath Family for their generous donation, and thanks to Charlie Barty-King, Darren Smith (Domestic Bursar), and the Alumni & Development Office for devising the Living Lab.
Testimonials:
Grown from the Curation & Librarianship branch of our Theory of Change tree, we want to capture and celebrate both the individual, and Wolfson's collective, successes in sustainability, climate action and the natural world from the past and present, and into the future 🌿📖 submit a story, anecdote, or other media:
Special thanks for the S&C Stories working group:
Providing avenues for Wolfson alumni, Fellows and friends to mentor the Wolfson student body and staff, creating cross-talk, training and knowledge transfer across an international community. Being a mentor is as involved or low maintenance as desired, from a casual chat, to advising on projects, to actively supervising students academically or otherwise.
Read Wolfson alumnus Alain Kilajian's experience mentoring Santiago Sottil as Santiago completed his Waste to Art project and became the first recipient of the Wolfson Living Lab Award (2021).
Interested in hearing more or becoming a mentor? Email: sc-hub@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Grown from the Curation & Librarianship branch of our Theory of Change tree, we are developing an approach to curation and librarianship of sustainability and conservation knowledge. Therefore, as a first step and in collaboration with the Wolfson Library, we have created a Wolfson Sustainability & Conservation Library Collection. This will feature relevant books, outputs and materials on the theme of sustainability or conservation in their broadest sense. For now, we take a particular focus on published works of Wolfson alumni, Wolfson student academic reports, and outputs from the Wolfson Living Lab and S&C Stories.
A page is under construction, however, so far in the S&C Hub Library Collection are:
If you would like works featured, please contact us directly: sc-hub@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Interactive webs of environmental (and some social justice) related organisations in Cambridge, covering both the City and the University ⛳️
Visit the Cambridge Resilience Web
What are the Cambridge Resilience Webs?
Developed in collaboration by volunteers from Transition Cambridge, Cambridge Doughnut, Lena Morrill and Charlie Barty-King. All code and data is open source on github; university and city.
We are open to all people: public, professional and academic 🌿
Join as a:
The growing list of S&C Hub members.
Are you a Wolfson College member past or present? Join Wolfson Connect, the College's official Alumni portal.
Members who are proactively involved in our projects and organisational meetings.
Santiago Sottil
Anne Waburi
Caleb Deck
Keshav Srinivasan
Konstantinos Korakakis
Nyandire Reinhard Bonke
Rae White
Golnar Malek
Charlie Barty-King
Convenors 🍃 (comprised of Fellows, Students, Staff and Alumni)
The organising group
Charlie Barty-King
Sian Cook
Steve Evans
John French
Rae White
Matthias Wong
Nyandire Reinhard Bonke
Konstantinos Korakakis
Rebecca Simons (Administrator)
Previous Convenors
Guillaume Nataf
Richard Manlove
Matthias Wong
Wolfson Fellows 🐺💚
A growing list of the Wolfson's fellowship (in order of addition) working within the broad themes of sustainability or conservation.
Professor Steve Evans
Professor John French
Dr Anna Dempster
Professor Alexei Lapkin
Professor Dick Fenner
Dr Steve Hoath
Dr Thomas McCoy
Professor Christi Deaton
Dr Sue Swaffield
Dr Florence Nabwire
Dr George Kakavelakis
Professor Ann Copestake
Professor Jane Clarke
Past Wolfson S&C Hub Fellows
Global issues today are simultaneously individual, collective and societal; everyone should have a say in how to resolve them.
A testimonial from Wolfson alumnus Golnar Malek on 'An amazing journey together', reflections as a member of the S&C Hub.
A testimonial from Wolfson alumnus Reinhard Nyandire on 'most notable achievements during the covid-19 pandemic', reflections as a founding member of the S&C Hub.
A testimonial from Wolfson PhD George Carew-Jones on 'why did I chose Wolfson'.
Email: sc-hub@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
Donations in support of the Sustainability and Conservation Hub can be made through Wolfson's Annual Giving page - choose "Other" in Designation and type "S&C Hub Fund".
Alternatively, you can discuss your gift with Sian, our Development Director: development-director@wolfson.cam.ac.uk.
Donations of every size, together, make a huge difference. All S&C Hub activities, costs and awards are funded through generous philanthropy.
Many Other Resources:
Green Talks - a Wolfson termly lecture series by the Wolfson Green Society, all recordings here
University articles for further reading: