Sustainability at UC

UC students gain hands-on research experience while contributing to decades-long datasets tracking how native ecosystems recover from fire and other major disturbances.

A Canterbury engineering student is using VR tech to revamp how wheelchair users are evacuated during a fire.

UC undergraduates are tackling brewery waste by trying to turn a low-value byproduct into a high-value sustainable material with commercial potential.

UC mechatronics student Thom Stranaghan is preparing to graduate with his dream engineering role already lined up in Perth.

A cleantech start-up that originated at UC is using groundbreaking technology to produce low-cost, low-carbon critical minerals from steel mill dust.

Social enterprises help communities thrive, but founder wellbeing is critical to sustaining their impact, UC research finds.

Offering property developers incentives could help prevent new housing from squeezing out protective greenery, a new study suggests.

A UC researcher is New Zealand’s National Champion in a global science prize, now in the running for US$1 million to scale solutions for the environmental crisis.

A UC-led study reveals how a kea without an upper beak became the dominant male in his group through a unique fighting strategy - jousting.