Individual recognition
The SRS Changemakers’ Award recognises current students and staff who have made a noticeable positive impact by:
- undertaking an impactful socially responsible or sustainable project;
- or by inspiring others to act in a more socially responsible or sustainable way.
How it works
Individuals or groups will have undertaken this either within the University (for the benefit of fellow students and staff); within the Edinburgh and Lothians region (the local community), or somewhere else entirely (other communities worldwide).
The activity will have occurred between March 2021 and March 2022, and may have been a one-off activity or may be ongoing.
Examples could be:
- Going above and beyond the expectations of a task to incorporate sustainability into a project or assignment
- Organising a team sustainability challenge that improved the environment and brought people together
- Volunteering in the local community to tackle social inequality or improve wellbeing
- Embedding climate awareness into teaching
- Organising a successful online event to raise awareness of a particular Sustainable Development Goal or related issue
- Supporting a community elsewhere in the world to become more sustainable
- Successfully encouraging friends, classmates or colleagues to make sustainable changes to their daily lives.
The individual’s or group’s actions should be in addition to activities they are expected to undertake as part of their programme of study or job role. Individuals and groups are welcome to nominate themselves or others.
Submit a nomination
Submissions that can demonstrate a measurable positive impact, that have shared or communicated their actions to others and that align with the University’s Social and Civic Responsibility Plan and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are more likely be successful.
Social and Civic Responsibility Plan
UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
Nominations opened on Monday 7 March 2022 and close on Friday 25 March 2022.