SEI and the University of York

SEI York is well placed to contribute to the University Vice Chancellor’s priority areas, including ‘sustainability’, ‘widening participation’ and ‘internationalism’. Staff in SEI York also actively contribute to the delivery of the Department of Environment and Geography’s (DEG) research programme with clear and substantial overlap between SEI York’s research areas and delivery mechanisms and the research areas of ‘Conservation in Action’, ‘Environmental Change Through Time’, ‘Environmental Chemistry in a Changing World’ and ‘People, Place and Planet’. In addition to our role in supporting and contributing to the research undertaken in DEG, SEI York work aligns and contributes directly to the work of other departments at York where we have active and ongoing collaborations, including - but not exclusively - those of the Department of Biology, Chemistry, Health Sciences, Politics, Social Policy, and the School for Business and Society.

We are active and longstanding contributors to the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) where collaboration has a track record of funding success which we will aim to continue going forward, and where our research portfolio complements all three of YESI’s themes of ‘Sustainable Food’, ‘Resilient Ecosystems’ and ‘Urban Living’. We have also actively collaborated with the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC).

We work closely with Environmental Sustainability at York (ESAY), with whom we have developed our interdisciplinary module, Sustainability and Policy. This forms one part of ESAY's York Interdisciplinary Modules initiative, new for the academic year 2023/24.