Minerva Building – New Coffee Shop From Tuesday 4th June, works will commence reconfiguring the University Shop area on the ground floor of the Minerva Building into a new coffee shop. The new space will be open to staff, students and the local community. The work will include creating an open plan seating space with […]
We’re more than halfway through our Sustainability Campaign Calendar! In April we focussed on biodiversity, linking out to some books on the subject at the University of Lincoln Library. We also welcomed goslings onto the campus for the first time this year. We spent some time promoting the Kitchen Garden and what’s growing. We […]
The theme for March on our Sustainability Campaign Calendar was “Community Collaboration”. We encouraged our followers on Twitter to get in touch if they had a sustainable project or were running a sustainable business and in the future, we would like to profile sustainable projects around the city. It was also the last week of Fairtrade […]
Our February campaign has been “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, with a focus on the “reduce” aspect, whether that be by travelling sustainably, shopping second hand, or ditching plastic in the supermarket. We ran three events around sustainable transport on the Brayford Campus, and were kindly joined by Access Lincoln. This was in response to the current […]
Honeybees are vital pollinators and their decline has been documented thoroughly across the news in recent years. Our Brayford Campus is now home to an observation hive, installed here as part of a research project looking into insect cognition. We spoke with Elisa Frasnelli, Lecturer in Life Sciences at the University of Lincoln, about the bees and why we […]