UC Sustainability Research Profile

Here you can find reports and documents from UC Sustainability students (and staff). Each summer the Sustainability Office supervises 4 (usually) UC students to work on various sustainability related topics, in conjunction with supervisors from departments all over UC. Staff in the UC Sustainability Office carry out research projects on occasion. This catalogue gives us a chance to showcase some of the amazing research and projects undertaken by students who have worked hard to contribute to the UC Sustainability research catalogue and the various departments, individuals and community groups they worked with. For a selection of sustainability-related research at UC, that is done outside of the UC Sustainability Office, please go to the Sustainable Campus Research page.

2011

Mario Fichtner, "Food Matters: Researching Viability of a Sustainable Food System at the University of Canterbury" (PDF 390KB) (UC Sustainability Summer Scholarship Project)

Mario Fichtner, "Examining Universities' Sustainability Progress" (PDF 510KB) (UC Sustainability Staff Report)

Mario Fichtner, "Fruit Tree Proposal for the University of Canterbury" (PDF 390 KB) (UC Sustainability Staff Report)

Kate Henry, "Comparing the Current Chemical Cleaning Regime and Non-Chemical Cleaning at the University of Canterbury: A Report and Practical Microbiological Experiment" (309 KB) (UC Sustainability Summer Scholarship Project)

Sharon McIver, "The Revelations of Rubbish: Monitoring and Improving the University of Canterbury’s Waste System" (PDF 822KB) (UC Sustainability Summer Staff Project)

Cameron McLeod, "Transition Enquiry: An Investigation of the Feasibility of a UC Transition Initiative" (PDF 308KB) (UC Sustainability Summer Scholarship Project)

2010

Eli Darnell, "Proposal of Sustainable Landscape Management for the University of Canterbury Campus" (PDF 80KB) (Earlham College/ UC Sustainability Office Internship)

Lisa Geary, "Investigating the Feasibility of a University of Canterbury Time Bank" (PDF 136KB) (UC Sustainability Summer Scholarship Project)

Natalie Scott, "Whose stream is it anyway? Community identification in Okeover Stream, Canterbury" (PDF 1.2MB) (UC Sustainability Summer Scholarship Project)

2009

2008

Allan Brent, "Tomorrows Offices at the University of Canterbury" (PDF 85KB) (UC Sustainability Summer Scholarship)

2007

Anna-Maria Covich, "A Convenient Place to Address and Inconvenient Truth? Integrating Sustainability into Teaching and Learning at Canterbury" (91 KB) (UC Sustainability Summer Scholarship)

Jeremy Thin, "Softening the Edges of a Modernist University Campus: A Landscape History of the University of Canterbury at Ilam" (PDF 3.44MB) (UC Sustainability Summer Scholarship)

If you have research that you know should go on this page, please e-mail sarah.campagnolo@canterbury.ac.nz with details.