Small Changes, Big Impact: Can behavioural interventions to promote pro-environmental food consumption be used to align students and staff with the University of Oxford Sustainability Strategy?

This talk will discuss how behavioural interventions can be utilised to reduce the biodiversity and carbon impact of canteen operations, touching upon Lizzie’s current behavioural intervention trial that is operating across 10 different colleges, including Kellogg College. Additionally, Lizzie will discuss the roll of behavioural interventions to reach the University’s trailblazing 2035 Biodiversity net gain target, which explicitly discusses Food Sustainability. Finally, taking a global perspective, Lizzie will also evaluate how knowledge from behavioural interventions will be shared across UNEP’s newly formed global Alliance of Nature Positive Universities.

About the speaker:

Lizzie Biggs is primarily a Master’s student in the Department of Zoology, trialling a large-scale behavioural intervention to promote pro-environmental food consumption. Aside this research, Lizzie authored the latest Environmental Profits & Loss Report for the University of Oxford, which accounts for the carbon and biodiversity impacts of the University’s operations, including food consumption, travel, construction, land ownership and supply chains. This report benchmarks progress towards the University’s Sustainability Strategy and has been used as a building block in UNEP’s new Nature Positive Universities Alliance Lizzie has also contributed towards calculating biodiversity impacts of LMH’s food servings to create biodiversity net gain strategies for their food operations, as part of the research group OxPOCH

This in-person event is free and open to all. It will be held in the College Hub.

Refreshments will be served from 5 pm.

If you are unable to attend after booking to attend in person, please email events@kellogg.ox.ac.uk