Sustainability Integration Program for Students

Follow your passion for sustainability and apply the skills you're learning to real-world sustainability challenges across our university.

Explore our award-winning SIPS program.

Our Sustainability Integration Program for Students (SIPS) is an award-winning initiative that offers you meaningful opportunities to work on real-world sustainability challenges and help the University operate more sustainably. You can be paid for your time or earn course credit for your work.

You might have a passion for a sustainability challenge or an idea you are keen to explore, or you could be looking for opportunities to apply the skills you've developed through your study in a sustainability context.

SIPS connects you with people across the University working to create sustainable change today. Students have been actively involved in shaping how sustainability is practised, and you can contribute too.

Bring your critical thinking and creativity, and develop your skills for a life and career that supports sustainability into the future.

All study levels and areas

Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate or research student, SIPS is open to students of all levels and study areas.

Shape sustainability at our uni

Help the University of Tasmania have a positive environmental impact and to be a leader in sustainable campus management.

2,300+ students over 10 years

Kick start a new initiative, or help an ongoing project developed by past students come to fruition by applying your skills.

Sustainability@UTAS

Bachelor of Natural Environment and Wilderness Studies student, Ellen-Rose Sorensen, created this podcast series through a SIPS Fellowship.

Each episode brings together students and staff to explore sustainability highlights and strategic initiatives at the University of Tasmania.

Listen now on Apple or Listen Notes.

Listen now on Spotify

Get involved with SIPS

To help achieve a number of our sustainability goals, SIPS Internships are offered regularly throughout the year.

The Sustainability team works across the University partnering with staff in academic and professional roles who are expert mentors and specialists.

Previous projects have included:

  • An energy audit of student accommodation and a report recommending various sustainability retrofits presented to the ISD team
  • Developing and running the University's Ride to Uni breakfast
  • Assisting in the development and rollout of a campus furniture recycling scheme.

View completed projects (PDF 269.7 KB)

Whether you are a student, staff member or part of the community, we welcome your project ideas for SIPS. Our goal is to integrate sustainability across all areas of the University, therefore we invite projects from all disciplines and departments.

Get in touch with your project idea

Frequently asked questions

Sustainability major

Did you know you can study the Sustainability major offered in the Bachelor of Science as part of most other bachelor's degrees as well?

Gain skills and techniques to help create sustainable societies, learn to identify sustainability-oriented impacts and come up with effective solutions.

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