While we’re in the COVID-19 red level, we’ve made the decision to make all our events virtual - doing our part in protecting the team of 5 million and the vulnerable in our community. So this event is now being delivered as a virtual zoom webinar - we hope you can still join us!
Preserving our precious planet and respecting the ways in which we use natural resources, Lincoln University are implementing an institution-wide commitment to be a leading organisation in promoting and staying congruent to sustainable practices. Thinking about the ways 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.
Lincoln University’s sustainability vision is to be an exemplar of sustainable practices for the land-based sector and to be a leader in sustainability education and research, demonstrated through the impacts we have on the sectors we support and influence.
Join us to hear from Grant Edwards, Chair of Lincoln University’s Sustainability taskforce as he shares the newly developed sustainability plan and the activities the university is undertaking to keep this on track.
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.
Thursday 27th January
4.00pm - 5.00pm
Zoom webinar
We hope to see you there!
Timings
4.00pm - Welcome from B.linc
4.15pm - Presentation from Keynote
4:45pm - Q&A Session
5.00pm - Event finishes
About Our Speaker
Professor Grant Edwards is Deputy 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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