Research Groups and Institutes
Sustainability Research Institute
The Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) has been established at UEL to research and develop the application of innovative eco-efficient technologies and processes, with a focus on changes in the physical infrastructure.
The SRI leads projects such as Eureka which helps businesses implement sustainable processes, develop innovative clean technologies and access new markets. Other projects include a trial at Stratford campus (outside the Buzz Bar) of road asphalt developed using waste vegetable oil instead of bitumen, a by-product of crude oil.
Environmental Research Group
The Environmental Research Group, part of the Sustainability Research Institute, embraces research across a wide range of environmental issues, including peatland, insect and freshwater ecology, botany and ethnobotany, carbon budgeting, nature conservation, environmental quality, environmental forensic science, sustainability and quality of life, virtual environments and virtual learning.
Architecture for Change
The MA: Architecture + Sustainable Design course evaluates and examines sustainability through design, at both the urban and architectural scale. Students develop experimental environmental designs through the testing of theory into practice. The course hosts a number of guest lectures and practical events such as Construction Week 2012.
Previous projects
Until 2012, UEL's Sustainable Mobilities Research Group in the school of Law and Social Sciences conducted primarily sociological research into forms of sustainable mobility and barriers to sustainable mobilities. In particular the group focused on issues of culture, identity, and inequality, and how these issues interact with decisions to use or not to use particular transport modes. They collaborated inside and outside UEL with people working in the area of sustainable mobility, broadly defined, including the ESRC-funded Cycling Cultures project.
Insight
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