Sustainability team
Our dedicated Sustainability team work closely with a variety of stakeholders and departments across the organisation, including the Institute for Sustainability, Centre for Environment and Sustainability and the Surrey Students' Union.
Get in touch with us by emailing sustainability@surrey.ac.uk.
Team statement
Meet the team
Sustainability on the Executive Board
Professor Bob Nichol
Chair of Environment and Sustainability Steering Group | Executive Board Lead for Sustainability
Biography
Bob is the chair of our Environment and Sustainability Steering Group and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. As a member of the Executive Board of the University, he has formal responsibility for sustainability at Surrey.
Sustainability team
Martin Wiles
Head of Sustainability
Biography
Martin leads the development and delivery of the University’s energy and sustainability strategy.
He manages projects, activities and events to improve the University’s environmental sustainability and works with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to facilitate the delivery of the broad sustainability strategic objectives, delivering cultural change across the University.
Andy Harman
Energy Manager
Biography
Andy oversees energy management at the University, delivering the objectives of the Energy Policy.
He identifies and prioritises areas for energy efficiency work and works closely with the Building Management Systems. Andy works with the Head of Energy and Sustainability on the University’s energy procurement strategy. He creates performance reports and works with building stakeholders around the University.
Marc Ashman
Senior BMS & Controls Engineer
Biography
Marc is working to address energy usage and efficiency across the University.
Charlotte Discombe
Sustainability Awareness Coordinator
Biography
Charlotte manages sustainability awareness across campus and is responsible for organising campaigns and engagement activities.
Anna Roberts
Sustainability & Energy Assistant
Biography
Anna is responsible for managing utility bills. They support the Sustainability team’' energy saving and sustainability initiatives, including the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework.
Staff with key sustainability responsibilities
Nick Jones
Head of Procurement
Biography
Nick’s role involves oversight of the Sustainable Procurement Strategy and responsibility for embedding sustainable best practice into procurement across the University.
As our Sustainable Procurement Champion, he is in close contact with higher education sustainable procurement groups, researching and implementing best practice responsible procurement across the University.
Iain Main
Sports Groundsman and Landscape Manager
Biography
Iain is responsible for the University's grounds. He is also the University lead for biodiversity, working to main and improve biodiversity across our 67 hectares campus.
Amy Woods
Senior Team Leader
Biography
Amy leads the Estates and Facilities Logistics team. She is also responsible for waste management on campus and is working towards improving the University's recycling rate, as well as reducing the amount of waste produced on site.
Debbie Nottridge
Head of Catering
Dean Bilsby
Network Operations Team Lead
Matt Aikin
VP Community (Students' Union)
Team statement
The University of Surrey is committed to embedding sustainability in everything that it does, that includes teaching, research, our role within the community and our operations. The University has made commitments to reduce carbon emissions to reduce our impact on climate change, to include sustainability in course modules and to promote and support research into sustainability.
The Sustainability team commits to reducing its energy use and carbon emissions, reducing waste in all its forms, enhancing our biodiversity and promoting sustainability to other teams.
The Sustainability team also aims to help, facilitate and enable other university teams to carry out their work in a sustainable manner.