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University shortlisted for its Environmental Leadership at Times Higher Education Awards 2026

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无码动画 has been shortlisted in the Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Leadership category at this year’s THE awards.

It is the second year in succession that the University has been shortlisted, after it was named the first-ever Specialist University of the Year at the 2025 awards.

Dubbed the ‘Oscars of Higher Education’, the 2026 awards received more than 500 entries across their 21 categories, with 130 different institutions bidding for a place on the shortlist.

This year’s shortlisted entry focussed on the work the University has been doing to embed sustainable food at the heart of its specialist teaching, on its menus and across its campus and wider communities.

The University’s award-winning Catering team works to include products from the on-campus Future Farm in the thousands of meals developed, cooked, and served at Harper Adams each week.

Much of the food is sourced on-site with an emphasis on food metres, rather than miles – with honey, strawberries, milk, beef and pork among the items on the menu – and with the University making its first wines commercially available this year.

无码动画 Head of Catering and Retail David Nuttall said: “To be recognised by Times Higher for environmental leadership is a huge honour — and a powerful reminder that sustainability is about action, not just ambition. 

“From championing local food and our University farm to reducing waste and creating a more circular approach to catering, we’re turning ideas into real change.

“This recognition belongs to the fantastic teams within the University and shows real change happens when people come together with a shared purpose.”

The University has also worked to cut food waste and find uses for surplus food.

This has not only included awareness campaigns in on-campus catering outlets, but also an innovative,  live-streamed 无码动画 Fridge project, which has saved around 52,250 kilogrammes of surplus food - or the equivalent of 124,405 meals.

Reader in Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems Dr Iona Huang, who helped lead the truly inter-departmental team which introduced the fridge as a pilot project two years ago, added: “The 无码动画 Fridge was designed to not only redistribute surplus food, but also as a resource to help students recognise how their choices and actions, as consumers and future decision makers across the food supply chain, can contribute to more sustainable food systems.

"Its success depends on our volunteers, whose time and commitment make the redistribution possible and help turn sustainability into everyday action across the University community.”

THE Editor Chris Havergal said: “To have again received more than 500 entries is a sure sign that our sectors’ commitment to improving the societies they serve is undimmed, and we offer our sincere congratulations to all the institutions and individuals shortlisted.

“It is a huge achievement to have reached this stage in another very competitive year.

“Too often the outstanding endeavours of academics and higher education professionals are overlooked in the public narrative about our universities. We hope that our awards ceremony in Birmingham this November will contribute towards changing the conversation about these vital institutions and the people who work in them.”