Why Work with SEEDS
- Direct access to faculty expertise, applied student research, and emerging best practices
- Ensure that UBC policies, plans, and operational decisions are informed by professional insights and expertise
- Ensure that UBC policies, plans, and operational decisions are supported across units for successful adoption and implementation
- Enables faculty to enrich courses with meaningful, applied inquiry that aligns with UBC’s commitment to evidence-informed education
- Collaboration across boundaries
- Prepare students for societal impact
What to Expect When Working with SEEDS
SEEDS takes a collaborative and community-driven approach by bringing together different groups on campus to turn big sustainability and wellbeing ideas into action. We work with a wide network of committees, action teams, and working groups—many led or co-led by SEEDS—to uncover research needs, set direction, and mobilize faculty, staff, and students. SEEDS also hosts focused R&D sessions and Research-to-Action symposiums. These gatherings help surface emerging issues, guide research priorities, share results, and accelerate adoption of effective interdisciplinary sustainability solutions across campus.
This approach ensures every project starts with the right foundation: aligned with policy priorities, informed by operational realities, and strengthened by academic expertise.
We also partner with faculty to place each project where it fits best—whether in a course as experiential learning or as a co-curricular, mentored research opportunity. Throughout the entire project lifecycle, SEEDS supports ongoing collaboration among everyone involved, making sure research is meaningful, actionable, and ready to make a real impact.
