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Leading the Way in Sustainability

  • B.linc Workshop Lincoln University Campus Lincoln New Zealand (map)

This year, our events calendar will have an overarching theme of ‘sustainability’. So what better way to kick us off than with an event focusing on just that?

At the beginning of 2022, we had the pleasure of hearing from Lincoln University Vice-Chancellor Professor Grant Edwards on their newly announced Sustainability goals. Here we are 12 months later, and we’d like to revisit to see how Lincoln University is progressing with the implementation to achieve its sustainability goals. Lincoln University aims to exemplify how they can tread lightly on the earth in areas such as green infrastructure, energy conservation, protection of native biodiversity, water management and resource recovery, low carbon mobility and effective waste.

Join us as we hear from Vice-Chancellor Professor Grant Edwards once again as he shares an update on the Lincoln University practices that make LU a leader in the sustainability space for all universities across Aotearoa.

 The B.linc VIBE event series is an opportunity to hear from one of the wider Lincoln precinct companies about their business and to touch base, reconnect and build connections across the precinct.

Tuesday 31st January

 4.00pm - 5.30pm

B.linc Workshop

 

We hope to see you there!

Timings

4.00pm -     Networking and Drinks
4.15pm -     Presentation from Keynote
4:45pm -     Q&A Session
5.00pm -     Networking
5.30pm -     Event finishes

About Our Speaker

Professor Grant Edwards is Vice-Chancellor at Lincoln University, where his portfolios include research and education.  Coming from a farming background in Wellsford, Northland, Grant completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences with Hons from Lincoln University in 1990.  He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1991 and through this scholarship completed a DPhil in behavioural ecology at Oxford University in 1994.

Grant then held research and teaching positions at AgResearch, and Imperial College London, before returning to Lincoln University in 2005, first as a senior lecturer in pasture science, before moving to the position of Professor of Dairy Production in 2009, and appointment to Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 2019.  Grant’s research interests are in the profitability and environmental performance of dairy farming systems.  At Lincoln University, Grant has been instrumental in activation of farm portfolio to support a continuum of activities from component research, through to farm systems and demonstration.

Outside of work, Grant has a strong interest in gardening, having developed a 2 ha garden at Kirwee and in hockey where he retains roles as selector of the New Zealand Men’s hockey team and coach of the Canterbury Mens Hockey Team.

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