Consultancy

Beyond our portfolio of award winning off-the-shelf sustainability programmes, we offer a range of additional services and packages to help drive sustainability through your organisation, delivered by our expert team.

TRAINING, WORKSHOPS AND SPEAKING
Designed to equip and inspire students, officers, staff, academics and volunteers to become leaders for sustainability, our team of expert trainers can run half day, full day, or two day sessions, depending on the depth of information and engagement you require.


Ready-to-go training packages include:
•    Planning your sustainability campaign
•    Sustainability for course representatives
•    Alcohol awarness training
•    Monitoring your impact
•    Aligning your work to the Sustainable Development Goals
•    Social change theory

For a list of all the readily available workshops check out our brand new Learning Academy.

We also develop bespoke training and workshop packages, facilitate sustainability consultations and often speak at events and conferences either as keynotes, guest lecturers or part of panel discussions.

Over the last academic year we have delivered more consultancy, tailored projects, and bespoke training than ever before. This includes:

  • working with Oxford University to review their university-wide sustainability engagement strategy and provide recommendations;
  • delivering an MSc lecture on education for sustainability development at the University of Surrey;
  • facilitating student-led curriculum mapping using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at De Montfort University, the University of Winchester, and Liverpool University;
  • developing bespoke versions of our existing programmes for Unite Students;
  • delivering full-day training for staff and elected officers at the SU at UWE and City University SU.

"The Education for Sustainable Development workshops delivered by NUS were extremely useful in helping students to break down the meaning of sustainability into manageable and understandable components, allowing course reps to think critically and reflectively about the presence of sustainability within their own course curriculum." Amy Hall, academic representation co-ordinator, UCLan Students' Union


AUDITS, ASSESSMENTS, EVALUATION AND RESEARCH
Working with our insight team to develop an evidence base for your work, analyse your impacts, identify opportunities for improvement and assess quality.
The majority of our work in this field is bespoke. Examples of work we’ve undertaken historically include:
•    Evaluating levels and quality of student engagement through independent assessment
•    Conducting sustainability audits
•    Curriculum mapping
•    Judging local and national awards


DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORING
Whether you want to put behaviour change theory into practice by designing your own in-house programme, have identified a particular opportunity you’d like to develop or you recognise that certain members of your team would benefit from a bit of support to really shine, SOS-UK can help.
The majority of our work in this field is bespoke. Examples of work we’ve undertaken historically include:
•    Designing and delivering bespoke programmes and campaigns
•    Working alongside academics to embed Education for Sustainable Development into their courses and modules
•    Sustainability and engagement strategy development
•    121 mentoring and coaching for key sustainability staff and officers

Please state your interest in any consultancy support through our online sign-up form or email us on hello@sos-uk.org for more information.