Month: June 2014

Paid internships available now with the Sustainability Team

June 26, 2014 /

Would you like the opportunity to work as a Sustainability Projects Assistant in the King’s sustainability team?  

We’re currently [June/July 2014] recruiting for a number of roles in the sustainability team to work with us either over the summer or longer term. As well as providing day to day support for the team the projects that you could be involved whilst working with us include:

  • Sustainability strategy development
  • Sustainable procurement strategy
  • Sustainable food and Fairtrade
  • Sustainability communications and engagement
  • Sustainable labs
  • Carbon reduction
  • Waste management
  • Water reduction
  • Education for sustainable development
  • Data management and analysis
  • Biodiversity
  • Sustainable construction and refurbishment
  • Implementing an environmental management system – ISO14001

See the Careers Group website for more details and to apply.

Passion and commitment to sustainability is a pre requisite but it doesn’t matter what your degree is. We are looking for at least one person to start straight away but we will also accept applications from anyone who can’t start until later this year.

This is offered under the Step internship programme which gives you an income exempt from tax of £308 a week for up to 6 months. There will be an opportunity to apply to extend the placement for up to a year. The role is for King’s students or graduates only.

Please contact Kat Thorne, Head of Sustainability with any questions about the role. If students are interested in researching sustainability at King’s for a project or dissertation, please also be in touch, we would be happy to help.

Watch this space for future opportunities in 2015.

 

Reflecting on my time with King’s Sustainability team

June 24, 2014 /

janneHi everyone, I’m Janne and I work with the Sustainability team as a Sustainability Projects Assistant. As I will be leaving the team soon off to a new job, I thought this would be a good time to share my experiences and reflect on working with the King’s Sustainability team.

After graduating from my MA Cities at King’s I started here as a STEP intern. I have always been very interested in sustainability and with a group of friends at King’s I established a sustainability committee called ‘sustainitects’. This role seemed like a great opportunity to get involved with sustainability projects at King’s so I applied straight away!

The role is varied and you get a chance to work closely with students and staff cross the College, which I find really inspiring. My favourite project has been my research on education for sustainable development. It was very interesting to have conversations about sustainable development with so many people at the College.

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Tytus on the rejuvenated Environment Society

June 23, 2014 /

My name is Tytus Murphy, I am a second year PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry where I am investigating the effects of ageing on stem cells in the brain. I like our planet very much, am also concerned about climate change and am one of the founding members of Fossil Free KCL. I am very keen to bring all the green groups together at King’s, as together we are stronger. I am also quite competitive when it comes to growing vegetables.  

On Monday 9th June the inaugural meeting of the recently rejuvenated Environment Society (henceforth and affectionately known as “EcoSoc”) took place at the Strand Campus.

This open and well-attended meeting attracted a diverse range of effusive students, ranging from undergrads in English and Economics through to PhD students with projects in war-region conservation and neuroscience. The vision for EcoSoc is a beautiful merger of eclectic green-minded groups at KCL (Fossil Free, Urban Gardens Project, The Sustainability Forum and any other group/individual with a passion for the environment!), with the aim of enshrining an ecologically sensitive consciousness for many years the come.

In particular, many green groups have been and gone in the College’s recent history and we plan to stop this by creating a collaborative, diverse and enthusiastic group that will stand the test of time.

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