Digital sustainability

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Reducing e-waste and emissions

We have taken many actions to reduce emissions and e-waste including:

  • We have a records management policy to ensure we are GDPR-compliant and reduce emissions from data storage wherever possible.
  • We have announced the to reduce data usage and storage.
  • Held "tech amnesty" days to encourage staff and students to hand in old, unused tech items to be sent to our IT partners for safe and secure recycling. We also have a process where the IT team will collect old or unused IT equipment for re-use or recycling.
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AI usage

The University has published our official tools including for both staff and students, taking into account the ethical and privacy/data protection implications.

We also offer a training module on Digital Sustainability that allows both staff and students to gain a skills certificate that tests them on their knowledge of sustainability in AI, data storage and IT hardware.