Tag: sustainability

Why we created the ultimate toolkit for every aspiring sustainability leader

Eirini Sampson, a PhD student at the Centre for Environmental Policy, co-founded the Sustainability Future Toolkit – an online resource that helps future-proof the careers of students looking to be part of the critical green transition. From helping students develop ‘green skills’ to learning about how to enter specific industries, she explains how her toolkit prepares students for a sustainable job market.

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Stepping into CEP as a PhD candidate… So far, so good, so Imperial!

Elsy Milan talks about her first days as a PhD student at the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP) at Imperial College London. She works on policies that would create sufficient demand for the market uptake of carbon capture, uptake and storage technologies. 

A photo of Elsy Milan

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Imperial and Strathmore University students tackle e-waste challenge in Nairobi

From 8-15 June 2024, the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London organised a Learning and Design Lab in Nairobi, Kenya, involving 8 students from Imperial and 12 from Strathmore University. The five-day co-creation lab aimed to develop specific design solutions for an e-waste management challenge posed by the WEEE Centre, a social enterprise specialising in sustainable e-waste management in Africa.

Students from Imperial and University of Nairobi, wearing protective masks, and observing a table filled with electronic waste.

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